April is Poetry Month

Donna Kerr and I, Eliza Wingate, will be posted poetry most days in April. We are both out of town this week, but here is the first poems.

Willits Library National Poetry Month Poem of the Day – April 1, 2010
CONRAD AIKEN
from sonnet sequence, FROM AND IN THE HUMAN HEART
"Green, green, and green again…"
Green, green, and green again, and greener still,
spring towards summer bends the immortal bow,
and northward breaks the wave of daffodil,
and northward breaks the wave of summer’s snow:
green, green, and green again, and greener yet,
wide as this forest is, which counts its leaves,
wide as this kingdom, in a green sea set,
which round its shores perpetual blossom weaves –
green, green, and green again, and green once more,
the season finds its term – then greenest, even,
when frost at twilight on the leaf lies hoar,
and one cold star shines bright in greenest heaven:
but love, like music, keeps no seasons ever;
like music, too, once known is known forever.

Ukiah Library National Poetry Month Poem of the Day April 2, 2010
ROBERT BLY
from the New Yorker

Wanting Sumptuous Heavens

No one grumbles among the oyster clans;
And lobsters play their bone guitars all summer.
Only we, with our opposable thumbs, want
Heaven to be, and God to come again.
There is no end to our grumbling; we want
Comfortable earth and sumptuous Heaven.
But the heron standing on one leg in the bog
Drinks his dark rum all day, and is content.