During April, National Poetry Month, we are posting a poem a day. If you would like to suggest one, please email it in. Pete Jackson submitted the two following poems. They are lyrics from the band King Crimson and were written by Peter John Sinfield and Robert Fripp. The songs serve as book ends their album In the Wake of Poseiden.
Peace: A Beginning, by Peter John Sinfield and Robert Fripp
I am the ocean
Lit by the flame
I am the mountain
Peace is my name
During April, National Poetry Month, we are posting a poem a day. If you would like to suggest one, please email it in. The following poem was sent in by Elizabeth Thomas.
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,
even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
During April, National Poetry Month, we are posting a poem a day. If you would like to suggest one, please email it in.
Spring is like a perhaps hand, by E. E. Cummings
III
Spring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully
out of Nowhere)arranging
a window,into which people look(while
people stare
April is poetry month and so everyday this month we are going to publish a poem. We encourage submissions. If there is a poem that is a favorite of yours, please send it to Frank@mytownmatters.com. Today’s poem comes recommended by The Academy of American Poets which is rich source of poetry and information about the people who write it.
The Everyday Enchantment of Music by Mark Strand
A rough sound was polished until it became a smoother sound, which
was polished until it became music. Then the music was polished until
it became the memory of a night in Venice when tears of the sea fell
from the Bridge of Sighs, which in turn was polished until it ceased to