Articles, Essays and Poems by Susan
National Poetry Month 2009 - Why Celebrate?
More Articles From Susan's Notebook National Poetry Month - Why Poetry? Why Celebrate? In times of economic, political, cultural, or personal distress, poetry offers itself to us. Random lines of worry and frustration may hover like a hot air ballon in your head. Entire poems sometimes pour onto a page. Regardless of your schooling in poetry - poems come to you as nature. Don't be shy about recording the lines of your emotion. Even in antiquity, men (and women) understood the value of capturing the Muse. Why Poetry? Why Not? (excerpt from August 2009 newsletter) She arrived with the stork
With a patty-cake man
Before you could speak
A mouse ran up the clock
Someone sang
Good night, sleep tight
You heard
The owl and the pussycat
Went to sea
Danny O’Dare
The dancing bearYou memorized poetry
Roses are red
Composed a love poem
Someday we will wed
You heard it in church
On the radio too
At school, see you later
In the hallways, alligator
In the subway
On the playground, skipping rope
Round and round
You heard it from lecterns
Speaking to nations
Ask Not What Your County
I have a dream
Poems may inspire
Gather roses while ye may
They tickle and smile
A nose is a nose is a nose - any day.
For this much is certain
Poetry is life
It lives with you
It lives in you
It speaks to you, speaks for you
Wherever you turn.
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