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April is National Poetry Month
April 10 - "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May" by e e cummings
April 9 - "Awakening in New York" by Maya Angelou
Curtains forcing their will
against the wind,
children sleep,
exchanging dreams with
seraphim. The city
drags itself awake on
subway straps; and
I, an alarm, awake as a
rumor of war,
lie stretching into dawn,
unasked and unheeded.
April 8 - "I'm Nobody" by Emily Dickinson
April 7 - "The Raven" (interpreted by The Simpsons)
April 4 - "Listen To The Mustn'ts" by Shel Silverstein
Listen to the MUSTNT'S, child
Listen to the DON'TS
Listen to the SHOULDN'TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me -
Anything can happen, child
ANYTHING can be.
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April 3 - What makes a poem... a poem?
April 2 - "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief.
So dawn goes down today
Nothing gold can stay.
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April 1 - "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes
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