 Poetry: April 01, 2020 Issue [#10097] |
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 Hello Readers! I am back as a guest editor this month! I love April National Poetry Month, and so many birthdays in my family. Including mine.  Guess whose famous poets birthdays have birthdays in April!,
 Maya Angelou, April 4, 1928
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."
 William Wordsworth, April 7, 1770
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
"I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more."
"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."
 Seamus Heaney, April 13, 1939
"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."
"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it."
 Shakespeare, April 23, 1564
"To be or Not to be, that is the question."
"All the world's a stage and men and women are merely players."
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Happy Poetry Month!  NaPoWrMO days are here.
Maureen Thorson, in her March 2013 blog announced this little activity to write a poem a day in April! Since then, it is a national event! National Poetry Writing Month!
So what will you scribe, oh bards of WDC and beyond? And how will you get inspiration? One of our birthday poets Wordsworth used nature that appealed to his senses and mirrored the inner being.
His words: "I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more."
has an idea I can relate to as my muse often raises as I walk hills and fields tuning in to their magic. I have great memories of the summer walks when winter closes the paths to wander. In silent communion the soul may hear its own song reflected in nature.
Seamus Heaney said:
"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."
I can relate to the inspiration here too. How many times do crisis happen, provoking the self to respond. Poets do it with words.
This April, with the chaos in the world with the virus, how can we turn it into a venue for poetry, expressing all the possible feelings, opinions, and with grace, inspire hope that "this too shall pass", as Lao Tzu, once said.
The influential Maya Angelou in her experiential wisdom wrote:
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."
Could we as poets encourage people expressing as mirrors of understanding and beacons of hope?
and finally, what if just expressing what comes up in your heart...as a clearing for all who may feel the same. the ups and the downs...so it does not stay stuck in our consciousness and can be freed up un-resisted. A new empty space, as we know, is created when we let something go free!  And out of that empty space, new vision, new notions never seen before can arise. 
so in the words of William Wordsworth:
"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." 
  Celebrate poetry and our lives as you write daily in NaPoWriMo!
 Where?
Your blog, a scrap of paper, a notebook, and here at WDC:
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or off site to Maureen's site: http://www.napowrimo.net/
 What does WDC offer for this yearly magic to prompt your poetic muse?
 If you don't write poetry, read and share your favourites on newsfeed! Browse by type or check out Poetry contest items!
 Want to try some poetry forms
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Want to just read some awesome famed poetry found and enjoyed by our WDC authors!
Participants just concluded this year's round of "Pursue the Horizon - Open for Signups" !
 Whereever the muse takes you, be inspired to express yourself and celebrate Poetic Word Wizardry everywhere! 
Now , A little poem that inspired me by J.R.R. Tolkien: I Sit and Think
I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;
Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.
I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall never see.
For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.
I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago,
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.
But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door.
Is your Muse knocking
at your little hobbit hole door?
Have fun, be peace and take care!
Thanks for reading!
eyestar
https://poets.org/national-poetry-month/30-ways-celebrate-national-poetry-month
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Chat time: tell me: are you writing a poem a day in April? What is your favourite poem? Where do you get ideas for a daily dose of poetry? 
 Thank you everyone for responding to my last Poetry letter: "Poetry Newsletter (February 5, 2020)"
Melisscious
"Fantastic! Thanks for sharing. He sounds like a sweet person. I mean, he does write for children?! You figure he would have a kind soul. Very thought-provoking, in that you made me wonder about what different people's "offices" look like. In Africa, I'm sure a hunter has his own type of office/workshop if you will. A counselor usually has soft light, beautiful, warm and/or colourful, joyful objects.
Out here on the island, surrounded by water your office mostly has floating, water-resistant objects in it.
Oddly shaped pieces of wood or rock? Neat items that are old relics or animal teeth?
I'm a comedian. Actually, I'm a joker (that's why I date all these fools!) and that centipede poem has all the makings of the kind of cheesy one-liner I love.
Good questions too! You've inspired me to do something for children next. I like hoping from one wildly different genre or style to another. It really helps keep me motivated to write. I find it easy to procrastinate if my interest is lost or I'm deterred by the sheer volume of work."
 I am so glad it tickled your muse!
Monty 
"I will always be a child at heart, Thank you."
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