March 30, 2011

21 Days/ 21 Poems: National Poetry Month


I, too, like memes, Blah Blah Blog. So, for National Poetry Month, I’ve repurposed 25 Days/ 25 Poems to 21 Days/ 21 Poems: One poem per day with a short paragraph about why you picked it.

A poem about childhood
A poem about motherhood
A poem about prejudice
A poem about a commonplace object/thing
An erotic poem
A Recent Memorable Poem
A poem that you’ve recited to someone, you wish someone would recite to you, someone has recited to you, you’ve sent to someone in an email/letter or was sent to you in a letter/email.
A poem about fatherhood
A poem that made you feel closer to the divine
A poem about place
A poem that gains meaning every time you’ve read it
A poem that you would want to recite to your children
A poem that made you want to write a poem
A poem about AIDS
A poem you wished you could have written
An elegy
A poem about ancestors/inheritance
A love poem
A Praise Poem
A poem that made you feel hopeful
A poem about a body part

I’ve only posted 21 poems because I assume my readers are decent people who do not think poetry is life and will take a break over the weekends.


If you’d like to join, link back to this post (or leave a comment here) and I’ll try my best to pop over to your site.

Until then, enjoy National Poetry Month.


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Update: 4/1/2011


I will also be broadening the scope of the blog for this month to include poets who were not lucky enough to be born in the Caribbean. But only for this month!

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