Rejoice! Throw your hands in the air and do a little poetic dance! Tell you friends and family, and share a poem with them! Have a feast, or, at the very least, a poetry reading!
It's National Poetry Month.
This year's promo poster, designed by the Academy of American Poets, features T.S. Eliot's question from a portion of his "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
And indeed there will be time | |
To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?” | |
Time to turn back and descend the stair, | |
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair— | 40 |
[They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”] | |
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin, | |
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin— | |
[They will say: “But how his arms and legs are thin!”] | |
Do I dare | 45 |
Disturb the universe? | |
In a minute there is time | |
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. | |
This is one of my favorite verses:
For I have known them all already, known them all:— | |
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, | 50 |
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; | |
I know the voices dying with a dying fall | |
Beneath the music from a farther room. | |
So how should I presume? |
Read the entire poem here.
Do I dare disturb the universe?
Do you?
3 comments:
I never knew that April was national poetry month!
you said that last year :)!!!
You must like it for the coffee reference. :)
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