NATIONAL POETRY MONTH....Day Two

  

My blogs will not be lengthy during Poetry Month as mainly I’m posting a poem a day from my challenger.  I have found composing after the midnight hour when all is quiet (my husband is sound asleep) and my neighbors dogs are not barking.  I now have three neighbors with little fur babies and sometimes it’s like a trio but instead of singing it’s barking. Hmmm, an idea to write a piece just popped into my head. BOLO (be on the lookout) for this piece. As for reading poems each day, I do this while enjoying my morning coffee.  

It is such a hard decision to pick what poems and whose poems I read each day. I actually thought about beginning with the letter A going through the alphabet.  In fact that’s my plan with a capital P.  I’ll let you know each day who I picked and perhaps you too will read a poem by the same. Yesterday I picked Maya Angelou and Jane Austin.  Today it was Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Lord Bryon.  I think I need to try reading in the coming days ones with whose works I am not familiar or more modern poets.  I tend to stick with the ones whose names are familiar to everyone.   Today’s poem I composed reflects my thought on the month of poetry.   

Hope you enjoy the piece.  

Until tomorrow....keep safe. 

DAY TWO THREE LINE THOUGHT

  So many poets poems to enjoy 

      With whose should I begin to read

          Starting with the letter A sounds good

   NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 

             THIRTY DAYS

        © Scottie-ann Murphy 

Thirty days designated to celebrate the         

             genre of poetry

Thirty days to announce to the world poetry 

           is alive and well

       Waiting to be heard, 

            Waiting to be read 

                  and waiting to be written

Thirty days to read the works of poets of       

           days gone by 

 John Keats....

       Emily Dickinson....

            Samuel Taylor Coleridge....

                  Elizabeth Barrette Browning....

Thirty days to take the challenge 

     to compose a poem a day

   

Odes, Sonnets, Free Verse, Rhyme, 

   Narrative, Elegy, Acrostic, Ballads

So many styles from which to choose

Thirty days....

      seven hundred and twenty hours...

        forty-three thousand and two hundred 

                 minute

      All dedicated to commemorate poetry 

Thirty days....such a short time period to   

      honor the poets of past and present 

Perhaps a future poet will emerge from the 

        celebration activities