Poetry: May 06, 2015 Issue [#6967]
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 This week: Spring Has Sprung!
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3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
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About This Newsletter

Hello! My name is Crys-not really here Author IconMail Icon. I am a poet, writer for children and young adults, and high school English teacher, so one of my favorite things to teach and write is poetry. It's always great to be a guest editor for the Poetry Newsletter!


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Spring Has Sprung!


Here on the east coast, it's finally Spring! After a brutally cold and white winter and a few false starts (anybody else experience 30 degree temps in April?), I'm happy to report sunny skies and temps in the 70's. I don't know about you, but I always feel the urge to write poetry more when the weather is beautiful. I feel more alive when the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and the flowers are blooming.

Spring has always been an inspiration for poetry. Consider Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring:" "Nothing is so beautiful as Spring"; T.S. Elliot's "The Waste Land:" "April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.”; the prologue to the Canterbury Tales and more than one Shakespeare sonnet. There's just something about flowers that inspires us to write about beauty and love. Check out some of the Spring-themed poems by poets on WDC that I've highlighted below.



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Editor's Picks

 
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Spring, sans the bloom. To Gina.
by winklett Author Icon

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A Diamante style poem about Spring.
by Leger~ Author Icon

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Acrostic poem on magnolia's, for a contest.
by mars Author Icon

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Under The April Rain Open in new Window. [E]
on "spring" for Writer's Cramp--not exactly a villanelle
by Joy Author Icon

 Haiku for Spring Open in new Window. [E]
This haiku has a bit of a twist of humor, so it may be more senyru....
by SusanFarmer Author Icon

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Thank you to everyone who wrote in about my last Poetry Newsletter on the Persona Poem.

I guess the first thing is to thank you for featuring my bit of silliness *Laugh* I'd never really thought about a "persona" poem before, although I have written them. I think that a bit of the poet, however, is captured in this type of poem. Who truly knows another's mind? We fill in the blanks with our own impressions, values, projections. In that sense, we are leaving parts of ourselves behind. Great topic; made me think ... and it didn't hurt too much. *Laugh* Keep up the great work - Thank You! -🌕 HuntersMoon Author IconMail Icon

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