Poetry can be found everywhere. Songs are poems set to music. Some of us remember poems we learned in school years ago.
Our Question of the Week was "What's your favorite poem?" to wrap up April, which is National Poetry Month.
Here's what we heard
Mary Oliver and e e cummings were named quite often as listener favorites.
Tricia from Bemidji said, "The Mary Oliver poem with the line, ‘Tell me, what is it you will do with your one, wild and precious life?’ is actually from 'The Summer Day,' about a grasshopper. This is probably my favorite. Each Mary Oliver poem is a celebration of life, of nature, and of simply paying attention."
Jan from Warba wrote, "In 8th grade, our wonderful English teacher had us memorize 'Sea Fever' by John Masefield, with the line 'I must go down to the sea again.' There we were: Red River Valley, about as far away from the sea as you can get, but it gave us a vision of that other place. Fifty-plus years later, I'll bet most of us can recall parts of it."
A.J. in Bemidji and John in Chicago simultaneously texted us about "This is Just to Say," by William Carlos Williams:
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
A.J. wrote, "This was one of the first poems I remember rereading multiple times because I loved it so much, the descriptive and apologetic language seemed so believable and sincere that I wanted a cold plum immediately."
Read our Question of the Week post on our Facebook page for more poetry suggestions.
What's your favorite poem or poet? Let us know!
