Favorite Poems

Here is a little food for thought by the Great Welsh Poet-Dylan Thomas.

How to Eat a Poem

Don’t be polite.

Bite in.

Pick it up with your fingers and lick the

juice that may run down your chin.

It is ready and ripe now, wherever you are.

You do not need a knife or a fork or a spoon

or plate or napkin or tablecloth.

For there is no core

or stem

or rind

or pit

or seed

or skin

to throw away.

- Eve Merriam

the drum

daddy says the world is

a drum tight and hard

and i told him

i’m gonna beat

out my own rhythm

by Nikki Giovanni

Burrows

Out in the country I walk across towns

        I'll never see:

mazy metropolises

        under the earth

         where rabbits hide from foxes

             foxes hide from dogs

             full-bellied snakes sleep snugly

               worms work uncomplaining

Where what you see is nothing--

what counts is what you smell

        or hear or feel

I try to tread softly:

        a quiet giant

           leaving only footprints

               on the roof  

                                      Marilyn Singer



Click on the links below:

Honey, I love by Eloise Greenfield

Introduction To Poetry by Billy Collins