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National Poetry Month: April 1-10

I Heard a Bird Sing
Oliver Herford

 

I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
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Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
     Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
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won’t you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton

won’t you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
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Ode to the Cat by Pablo Neruda

There was something wrong
with the animals:
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The Burning Of The Books by Bertolt Brecht

When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
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Translated by Michael R. Burch

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Job Interview with a Cat by Brian Bilston

Tell me, what is it about this position that interests you?
The warmth, perhaps? The security?
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The Duck and the Kangaroo by Edward Lear

Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,
‘Good gracious! how you hop!
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Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
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