Celebrate National Poetry Month With The Heretik in April 2005

APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!  Find poems in the American Voice, poems by Walt Whitman!  Find all the poems you could ever love and more here!

Each day for the rest of April The Heretik will feature poetry on these pages.  Why?

It is difficult
to get the news from poems
        yet men die miserably every day
                for lack
of what is found there.

from "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"
William Carlos Williams

i would take a lonely stone
and hold it in my hand

the stone in my hand
holds the weight of the sky

the sky gone by
and the sky remembered

i would take a lonely stone
and put it in my pocket

holding the stone
i hold the sky

a sky gone by
and a sky remembered

the stone and the sky
i hold them both

somewhere
in my pocket

i would take a lonely stone
and hold it to my ear

hear tales for days
of days gone by

of days of awe
and wonder

and the wonder is
can the sky remember?

"The Lonely Stone"
Joe Ivory Mattingly

Comments

[Screwy Hoolie]

Too right!

Scrutiny Hooligans are on board with Poetry Month.

[pissed off patricia]

Mr. Heretik, you amaze me and surprise me. Excellent choice!

[Diane]

Very nice indeed.

[jillian]

I AM celebrating Poetry Month....I chose to highlight today...Mr. Il Postino himself...Pablo Neruda.

[Periangel]

I celebrate this month with nightly naked dancing under the streetlight. Or not. I agree with Jillian that Neruda is amazing, but one underappreciated poet I must mention is Wislawa Szymborska, a Polish poet.

[Pseudo-Adrienne]

Happy Poetry Month!!

[KathyF]

Did anyone notice that Walt looks just like Robert E. Lee?

[Kate S.]

Halleluja! I forgot about this being National Poetry Month! Thank you for the reminder, and extra thanks for your excellent taste in poets. I have some catching up to do! Last year I featured Billy Collins ... the year before that Anna Akhmatova and Margaret Atwood. This is going to be fun!