APRIL POEMS (!)
Since April is Poetry Month, we thought we'd celebrate the occasion by trying something different. We've selected a variety of poems to mull over and discuss (see list below). Most can be found at the excellent Poetry Foundation site (link), a treasure trove of versification well worth a deep dive. So join the poetry party this Tuesday (April 9) at our usual 7pm start time at Zawa's (link) on Commercial Drive, just off Venables. All are welcome regardless of their taste in poetry.
Here's a haiku appetizer for starters:
I kill an ant
and realize my three children
have been watching
Shuson Kato
And the current main course (check the Comments for any late additions):
P.K. Page
My Chosen Landscape
Robert Frost
Acquainted with the night
Emily Dickinson
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
My Last Duchess
Robert Browning
E.E. Cummings
All nearness pauses, while a star
Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush
W.B. Yeats
The Second Coming
Osip Mandelstam
'Your thin shoulders whips will redden'
W.H. Auden
Twelve Songs: IX (Stop all the clocks)
Percy Shelley:
- Ozymandias
- Ode to the West Wind
- The Flower that Smiles today
- Music when Soft Voices Die
- Mont Blanc
