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4-02-2026 12:17am

One-a-Day in Celebration of National Poetry Month: Share Your Favorite

by Jane Stahl

In celebrating National Poetry Month, please share your favorite poems. I'll start with two of mine and publish one-a-day throughout the month. 

I hope you'll send your favorite to janeEstahl2335@gmail.com or leslemisko@aol.com. 

April 1 and 2: Poets e e cummings and Sara Teasdale share the beauty of the world.

i thank you God for most this amazing
day:: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings:: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth

how should any caring touching hearing seeing
breathing any—lifted from the no
of all nothing—human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened.)

~ e e cummings

Barter
Life has loveliness to sell --
         All beautiful and splendid tings,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
         Climbing fire that sways and sings,
And children’s faces looking up
Holding wonder like a cup.

Life has loveliness to sell --
         Music like a curve of gold,
Scent of pine trees in the rain
         Eyes that love you, arms that hold,
And for your spirits still delight,
Holy thoughts that star the jight.

Spend all you have for loveliness,
        Buy it and never count the cost,
For one white singing hour of peace
        Count many a year of strife well lost,

And for a breath of ecstasy,
Give all you have been or could be.

~ Sara Teasdale

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