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April is Poetry Month!
Apr. 1st, 2025 01:13 pmApril is National Poetry Month in the US. I am already seeing lovely poems on my feed.
The Academy of American Poets has a poem-a-day series. (https://poets.org/poem-a-day) For April, I am signed up to get the day's poem sent to my inbox or you can just check the poem-a-day page on the website. Here is today's poem and the poem which inspired it. Note: the formatting is not right here. Go to the poem on the Poets.org site to see the true formatting. https://poets.org/poem/magnitude-and-bond-0
Magnitude and Bond by Cortney Lamar Charleston
after Gwendolyn Brooks
that which is betwixt us of the lampooned lips and noses
indissoluble as blood impassioned by a serene swatch of sky—
envy of the blessing of birds and the divine shadow
cast to provide protective canvas for our bones of calcified light
the chains that wore us in the fashion of diamond-studded pendants
and the names that the ocean omitted from history with a wave
( Rest of poem + Paul Robeson by Gwendolyn Brooks )
The Academy of American Poets has a poem-a-day series. (https://poets.org/poem-a-day) For April, I am signed up to get the day's poem sent to my inbox or you can just check the poem-a-day page on the website. Here is today's poem and the poem which inspired it. Note: the formatting is not right here. Go to the poem on the Poets.org site to see the true formatting. https://poets.org/poem/magnitude-and-bond-0
Magnitude and Bond by Cortney Lamar Charleston
after Gwendolyn Brooks
that which is betwixt us of the lampooned lips and noses
indissoluble as blood impassioned by a serene swatch of sky—
envy of the blessing of birds and the divine shadow
cast to provide protective canvas for our bones of calcified light
the chains that wore us in the fashion of diamond-studded pendants
and the names that the ocean omitted from history with a wave
( Rest of poem + Paul Robeson by Gwendolyn Brooks )
