How to Celebrate National Poetry Month

Intro:  It is tme again to celebrate the rites of spring and that festival of worlds which is National Poetry Month

Step 1:  The obvious way to observe National Poetry Month is to write a poem.  For that you need a subject.  How about the death of spring.  Some say that sleep is the little death.  Some say that sex is the little death.  The death of spring is not little and in some ways it is not even horrible.  After all, summer follows and to many people in many places, summer is a wondrous time of freedom and melting ice cream.  Plenty to write about their.

Step 2:  If you need other poetry fodder than consider the approach of the season of storms. From where I sit on the edge of a lake the storm clouds ride in low on the horizon, gliding soundlessly over the water at first.  But then the sky screws up it's eyes to cry and throws around lightning bolts like a child throwing a tantrum.  And a thousand tiny fists beat against the room of the house as the skies open and the rain rains down.

Step 3:  The ater math.  The harsh wind fades and skies clear and people in Oklahoma see their lives scattered all over a dozen miles and they thank God they live to their lives begin anew.  Oklahoma might not be the middle of nowhere but you can see it from their.  Broad prairies where there are miles of nothing.  And when the storms came there was nothing between the populace and the violence of an angry God.

Step 4:  And there are the various and sundry foible of man to write about the.  The lies of politicians.   An athlete who describes his time as "valuable"  as though he was a cancer curing brain surgeon who taught Sunday school on the side and not some dork who gets paid millions to put spit on fast ball whilst playing kids game.

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