I can’t celebrate National Poetry Month on this blog without something from Mary Oliver, one of my favorite poets. This one was a recent discovery for me. Click here to read “Forty Years” by Mary Oliver. Related Posts:One Wild and Precious LifePoetry Month ReflectionsPoetry Month 2016Treat a Poem Like Dirt
The Land of Nod by Robert Louis Stevenson From Breakfast on through all the day At home among my friends I stay, But every night I go abroad Afar into the land of Nod. All by myself I have to go, With none to tell me what to do– All alone beside the streams And […]
And we’re back. I took an unplanned break from posting these past few days, so my month of poetry will be three poems short. Following the theme of ordinary things I mentioned in my last post, today’s poem is about a gas station. Further proof that poetry doesn’t have to be reserved for momentous occasions […]