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LitWorld’s Global Poem – have you added your line yet?

Marjorie — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:02:26 +0000

There are still a few days left before the end of Poetry Month in the US, so if you haven’t already added your lines to LitWorld‘s Global Poem for Change, there’s still time.

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye wrote the beginning and sent the poem flying across the world:

I send my words out into the air, listening for yours from everywhere.

You can follow the poem here and add your own lines here. LitWorld needs your words to help their poem grow and remember, Your Words can Change Worlds – but hurry, the last lines must be sent in my the end of April.

Here are a few of my favorite lines so far:

Speak one word, one-thousand echoes

The sounds that echo through space and time; leave imprints that shape our growing minds

Words that stir, words that drive, words that connect us all, and make us strive.

Words will soar from near to far filling hearts and opening minds –

I can hear you ever so softly- like a single falling snowflake before the blizzard.

Starting with one little syllable… one little word… I offer my peace to the world…

Spoken in love and respect in an effort to change the world

Poetry Friday: The Poet Pencil

Aline — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:00:35 +0000

Poetry Friday is here to enchant our eyes and ears!… In anticipation of Hispanic Heritage Month (Sep 15 – Oct 15), I am currently re-reading The Tree is Older Than You Are, an incredible anthology of bilingual poems from Mexico, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye. And I’d like to share one of its many gems with you all:

The Poet Pencil
by Jesús Carlos Soto Morfín, translated by Judith Infante

Once upon a time a pencil wanted to write
poetry but it didn’t have a point. One day a boy
put it into the sharpener, and in place of a point,
a river appeared.

Wild Rose Reader is brimming with poetic activity as host of this week’s Poetry Friday round-up. Check it out.

Poetry Friday: Waking Up on the Right Side of the Poetry Bed

Aline — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:50:44 +0000

It’s Poetry Friday and I could not find the time to blog about a poem or poetry book. And since I didn’t want the day to end without my contributing something to this beautiful, collective blog effort to promote poetry, I decided to go back to a piece I wrote for PaperTigers in celebration of Poetry Month (back in April), inspired by an interview I read with poet Naomi Shihab Nye. The piece, called “Waking Up on the Right Side of The Poetry Bed,” is a tribute to poetry and reading aloud.

Poetry Friday’s lovely round-up this week is at Charlotte’s Reading. Enjoy!