Rae: March Theme

Celebrate words! Revisit some old poem friends or discover some new ones, as you wish. Share a favorite with us if you like.

If you need direction in your discovery...here are some of my favorite poets: May Swenson, Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver, Barbara Kingsolver(!), Leslie Norris, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Hardy, Ogden Nash, Robert Service, Dorothy Parker, Carl Sandburg, Elizabeth Bishop and Amy Clampitt.

Little known observation: 90 percent or so of Emily Dickinson's verses can be sung to the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas. Try it. "There is no frigate like a book..."

Happy wording!