Start brainstorming and return to this page during National Poetry Month to begin submitting your new poems for inclusion in this project. Watch for the “Submit a poem” button to appear here on April 1!
2023 poetry submissions will be accepted from April 1-21 and will be published here beginning April 27.
October’s Hunter’s Moon
shone midnight bright
through out windows.
She woke me with the call:
Come out of doors.
Feel the moist air on your skin,
the damp earth beneath your feet.
I followed, witnessed her shining
arc towards the western horizon.
Give me the cooling night sky in all its beauty.
Give me the pretty fireflies that light up the night.
Give me the grass that is covered in dew.
Give me the chance to look up in the night sky and see the stars.
Give me the sun with all of it’s heat to warm me up.
Give me the evening when all goes quiet to watch the sunset fall.
Butterflies flutter
and dance harmoniously
as one in the wind.
9/11/2021
Twenty years later
We write about our heartbreak
And let the tears fall on the page
Twenty years later
We bring our heroes and heroines
Back to their families
In coffins to place in their graves
And I let the tears fall on the page
The image of the generals
Saluting the flag Draped coffins
Woke me from my sleep
I wrote about my misery
And deep rooted
In a world that salutes the remains of
Dead twenty- year olds
Who never knew peace
Most of them immigrants
Their lives shortened
The hurt cut me deep
I want more in my lifetime
I Want peace
I turn the page of current events
And always another war
Why Us?
Why Me?
What can I do for my country?
But sing
Oh Say Can You see
