National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month. Erotic Horizon has suggested for bloggers to do something poetic. So here are a couple of my favorites.

 

 

[in Just-]

by e. e. cummings 

in Just-

spring          when the world is mud-

luscious the little

lame balloonman

whistles          far          and wee

and eddieandbill come

running from marbles and

piracies and it's

spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer

old balloonman whistles

far          and             wee

and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it's

spring

and

         the

                  goat-footed

balloonMan          whistles

far

and

wee

 

FOG 

by Carl Sandberg
 

   The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.