Good things and Not so good

       Today on PBS, near the end of poetry month, they showed an interview with the United States poet laureate Philip Levine with the British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy.  It is brief, but great to see.  You can find it here.

Someone’s cat

lay at the side of the road

on my way to work this morning.

He was curled like his brothers,

seemed comfortable in his sleep.

I wondered if someone’s hand

missed that soft grey fur,

if someone’s lap missed his warmth.

I imagine the bowl of cream

sitting in the kitchen

untouched.

I hear the voice call for him

out the back door.

“He’s always been there before.”

But if no one is

waiting,

calling,

crying,

then I will give a thought to this grey cat,

and grieve his passing.

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         Be sure to read about  a poetry month CHALK POEM finale that Betsy of Teaching Young Writers is hosting on April 30th.  Come join us!

           Activities still are happening in these final days of Poetry Month. The last lines of the kidlit Progressive Poem can be found through the links on the right. Find Jama Rattigan's blog post at Jama's Alphabet Soup  to discover other Poetry sites in the kidlitosphere doing wonderful things!  Cathy, at Merely Day By Day, is joining Mary Lee, at A Year of Reading in a poem a day this month. Other daily poem writers include Amy at The Poem Farm, Donna at Mainely Write, and Laura at LauraSalas.  Plus Greg Pincus of Gotta Book has just published his first E-book, The Late Bird.  

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