Poetry Month is here again! Yippee!!!
Just like Kindness Month in February, I will be making (almost) daily posts for Poetry Month. I will post poems I think you’ll enjoy, as well as poetry “starts” as invitations to write your own poetry.
The first one is a great way to get started. It’s by Eve Merriam, who was an american writer and university lecturer.
How to Eat a Poem
Don’t be polite.
Bite in.
Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that
may run down your chin.
It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.
You do not need a knife or fork or spoon
or plate or napkin or tablecloth.
For there is no core
or stem
or rind
or pit
or seed
or skin
to throw away.