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Bowls of Bread and Bombs<\/h2>\n
Mrs. Crandall's fingers knead\r\nA rising loaf, an earthy sourdough\r\nHer hearty lentil soup, simmering,\r\nWaits to fill.\r\n\r\nTwo boys run through her kitchen - \r\nWild, innocent imagination\r\nEvanescent in the blink \r\nOf mother's eye.\r\n\r\nAirplanes scream above them - \r\nAnd Mrs. Crandall, pious, \r\nFull of grace, lifts prayerful hands\r\nIn the dark.\r\n\r\n\"Scurry now, take cover!\" They dive beneath\r\nThe kitchen table, holding bowls of bread, \r\nGouged out by Mrs. Crandall's\r\nFingernails.\r\n\r\nShe feels their faces in the dark\r\nTastes their tears, reassures herself\r\nAnd them, with lentils - candlelit\r\nBy falling bombs.\r\n\r\nSmoke spirals from the rubble mingle\r\nWith scents of blood and sourdough - \r\nAnd savory soup, warm comfort \r\nNone can taste.<\/pre>\n
\u2014 Holly Jahangiri (April 12, 2023)<\/em><\/p>\n
Author’s note: Today’s poem was inspired by the April 1 – 13 prompts at Poets Northwest<\/a>. Thanks to Karen M. for providing them.<\/p>\n
Today’s Poet<\/h2>\n
Sidney Arthur Kilworth Keyes<\/b> – an English poet, killed in action during WWII. Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Sidney Keyes – Poems by the Famous Poet – All Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n
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April is National Poetry Month<\/a>. This year marks its 27th year. NaPoWriMo<\/a> – 30 days of writing poems – is poets’ answer to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).<\/p>\n
This coincides with the A to Z Blogging Challenge<\/a>, now celebrating its 13th anniversary. Some participants choose a theme; others wing it. Doesn’t matter! The real challenge is to build a practice of writing daily. I think I stuck with it…once. You can see the list of participants<\/a> – I’m sure they’d love it if you’d visit and comment on their blogs.<\/p>\n
This month, my goal is to:<\/p>\n
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  1. Write a poem a day and share it – uncurated<\/a> – here; and<\/li>\n
  2. Highlight some poets you may be unfamiliar with.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    I encourage you to click the links to read about them and their work. I plan to choose a diverse array of classical and contemporary poets – indigenous poets, Black poets, women poets, LGBTQ poets – that challenge us to see the world differently while also tapping into universal themes and emotions.<\/p>\n
    Remember, too, that comments and conversation are always welcome here. (Spammers<\/em>, on the other hand, will be tossed into the moat or mocked, so before you leave an irrelevant comment or drop a link, consider that it’s fair game!)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Wartime poets. Bowls of Bread and Bombs. We could all do without this kind of inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1011821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_has_post_settings":[],"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-1011331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 23:15:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011331"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011873,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011331\/revisions\/1011873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1011821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011331"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=1011331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}