Today marks the beginning of National Poetry Month. Last year I did a Poetry Month series here on the blog, posting a poem each day. It wasn’t always easy. Poems are protected by the same copyright laws that apply to other written works. To share a complete poem here, it has to be in the […]

October by Helen Hunt Jackson Bending above the spicy woods which blaze, Arch skies so blue they flash, and hold the sun Immeasurably far; the waters run Too slow, so freighted are the river-ways With gold of elms and birches from the maze Of forests. Chestnuts, clicking one by one, Escape from satin burs; her […]