Never have I ever:
\nSeen the Green Flash at sunset
\nHeld St. Elmo’s Fire in my hand
\nSwayed with Aurora Borealis, undulating,
\nHowled at a full moon while singing to the stars above –
\nBut I have seen emerald fire in your eyes
\nFelt lightning in your kiss,
\nSwayed to the music of your hips
\nInhaled your breath as it
\nCaressed my tongue, warm and salty,
\nAs like the moon,
\nI pulled your crashing waves
\nAgainst my shore.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Holly Jahangiri (April 15, 2023)<\/em><\/p>\n Grace Nichols<\/strong> –\u00a0<\/span>a\u00a0Guyanese\u00a0poet\u00a0who moved to Britain in 1977, before which she worked as a teacher and journalist in Guyana. Her first collection,\u00a0I is a Long-Memoried Woman<\/i>\u00a0(1983), won the\u00a0Commonwealth Poetry Prize<\/a>. In December 2021, she was announced as winner of the\u00a0Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry<\/a>. Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n To My Coral Bones poem – Grace Nichols (best-poems.net)<\/a><\/p>\n Praise Song for My Mother poem – Grace Nichols (best-poems.net)<\/a><\/p>\n Naomi Shahib Nye<\/strong> – \u00a0an American\u00a0poet, editor,\u00a0songwriter, and\u00a0novelist. Born to a\u00a0Palestinian father and an American mother, she began composing her first poetry at the age of six. Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye – Poems | Academy of American Poets<\/a><\/p>\n 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.\u00a0You 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>\nToday’s Poets<\/h2>\n
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