National Poetry Month

Originally published on April 16th, 2017

I recently learned that April is National Poetry Month in the United States. Considering the fact that I have been struggling to find something to write about, I thought it might be interesting to compile a list of my favorite poems. This list will include both traditional poems as well as spoken word (because why not). 

TRADITIONAL:

- Go For a Walk If It Is Not Too Dark (Hafiz)

- Hope Is The Thing With Feathers (Emily Dickinson)

- Laughter (Hafiz)

- Annabel Lee (Edgar Allen Poe)

- 7 billion people (rupi kaur)

- balance (rupi kaur)

- outlook (rupi kaur)

- [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] (E.E. Cummings)

- I Wondered Lonely As a Cloud (William Wordsworth)

- She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways (William Wordsworth) 

- Sonnet 116 (Shakespeare)

SPOKEN WORD:

- If I Should Have a Daughter (Sarah Kay)

- Dreaming Boy (Sarah Kay)

- When Love Arrives (Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye)

- Table Games (Sarah Kay)

- Camaro (Phil Kaye)

- Beginning, Middle, and End (Phil Kaye)

- 9 Things I Would Like to Tell to Every Teenage Girl (Melissa Newman-Evans)

- Loving Like an Existentialist (Savannah Brown)

- i wish i was (a flaw examination) (Savannah Brown) 

What my floor looked like after I finished writing this... 

Too much? :-)