Paraphernalia’s poetry brooch |
Today is the first day of National Poetry Month in the US. Their website has a state-by-state calendar of events, they’ll email you a poem every day this month, and this year there’s a great poster with a quote from T. S. Eliot’s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: Do I dare / Disturb the universe? While there are lots of blogs and websites devoted to poetry, one I especially like is Poem of the Week — here’s a recent post: The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm The house was quiet and the world was calm. Was like the conscious being of the book. The words were spoken as if there was no book, Wanted to lean, wanted much to be The summer night is like a perfection of thought. The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind: And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world, Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself |