April is national poetry month....

[darkelf105]

April is national poetry month and I thought that I would acknowledge it with my crappy poetry.

Today I looked at the sun setting

And saw that a crayon box had exploded

Wax color dreams dribbled everywhere

And a pothole, broken crumbly, black

Had caught a bit of sky


Peering Peering Peering I saw my face

Pink-orange glowing

I thought I saw me smile

And wondered–does she wonder?

Sneaker-dash, gurgle splush, and bit of me

Everywhere, glittered, flew
I wondered if the girl in the puddle–
wondered if she wondered–what it felt like

to be a million water bright pieces

Against a crayon box sky?

But now I will share with you actually really really good poetry. I heard this poem first on NPR and liked it so much I bought the anthology it was in. The anthology is called "Poet's Choice" compiled by Edward Hirsch. The poem is by William Matthews and is located on page 308-309. Coincidentally, Bruce Wiegl, a very awesome professor to receive edumacation from, is mentioned in this book. Anyway here is the poem by William Matthews.


Grief

E detto l’ho doler ti debbia!
–Inferno XXIV, 151

Snow coming in parallel to the street,
a cab spinning its tires (a rising whine
like a domestic argument, and then
the words ger said that never get forgot),

slush and backed-up runoff waters at each
corner, clogged buses smelling of wet wool...
The acrid anger of the homeless swells
like wet rice. This slop is where I live, bitch,

a sogged panhandler shrieks to whom it may
concern. But none of us slows down for scorn,
there’s someone’s misery in all we earn.
But like a bur in a dog’s coat his rage

has borrowed legs. We bring it home. It lives
like kin among the angers of the house,
and leaves the same sharp zinc taste in the mouth:
And I have told you this to make you grieve

Comments

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Aww. I actually liked yours much better. But then I don't have a lot of interest in poetry so I tend to lean toward rocking poems (Poe), rhyming/story poems (Silverstein), and colorful peoms (Frost). It's too bad I don't know flash, because that peom would make a really cute animation.