A to Z Challenge: “V”erse
Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? I used to read poetry when I was younger and also studied it in AP English. What I came to realize in writing this blog is that I need to read more current poets. I’m behind. There is a whole world of new poets waiting to be discovered and I need to update my list. As limited as it is, here are my favorite poets and poems.
W. H. Auden – Funeral Blues
Langston Hughes – Mother to Son, Dreams
Carl Sandburg – Under the Harvest Moon
William Carlos Williams – Willow Poem, This is Just to Say
W. B. Yeats – When You Are Old
William Wordsworth – The Daffodils
Mary Oliver – The Swan; her book, Dog Songs, Why I Wake Early
Robert Frost – The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Max Ehrmann – A Prayer
Anything from Maya Angelou
Roy Croft – Love adapted from “Ich liebe Dich” by Erich Fried
Who are some of your favorite poets/poems?
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I'm Diane, a marketing executive in the non-profit sector living in Terre Haute, Indiana. My husband and I moved from Denver, Colorado, 15-plus years ago and this blog highlights our joys and challenges in adjusting to our new home and town. I also share things I love: photography, wildlife and domestic pets, writing, knitting, making jewelry, food, travel, my faith in God and music. I'm also writing a mystery novel so stay tuned!
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Ramya Joyce Samantha DRozario
I love the poems I learned in school. Daffodils features in that, and The Owl and the Pussycat! But I really love war poems and enjoyed Charge of the light brigade by Tennyson.
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Josie Two Shoes
Max Erdmann is also one of my favorites, and absolutely the works of Maya Angelou, and incredible, poet, author and woman of our time, I reached adulthood with her writing, and continue to be deeply impressed.