April is National Poetry Month!
Everything is game, from Free-Verse to Haiku, Sonnets to Limericks (although maybe we should have saved those for March 17, eh? To get you in the spirit of the season, I provide you with Robert Service…
The Land God Forgot
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn
Down valleys dreadly desolate;
The lordly mountains soar in scorn
As still as death, as stern as fate.The lonely sunsets flame and die;
The giant valleys gulp the night;
The monster mountains scrape the sky,
Where eager stars are diamond-bright.So gaunt against the gibbous moon,
Piercing the silence velvet-piled,
A lone wolf howls his ancient rune –
The fell arch-spirit of the Wild.O outcast land! O leper land!
Let the lone wolf-cry all express
The hate insensate of thy hand,
Thy heart’s abysmal loneliness.
Is that a little daunting? How about a nice 5-7-5 haiku?
Silent Swollen Stream
Strong Storms, the mountain crying
Oregon in Spring.
