Nature Poems for National Poetry Month

Please Note: this is poems #1-5 of my April 2024 poetry readings. Check Poetry any Place for the subsequent readings in individual posts.

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April 10th
Poem #5: “From Blossoms” by Li-Young Lee

Note: this poem is not in the Earth Songs collection from which I’ve been reading, but it crossed my path today, and I had to stop and share it—reading a little quickly to get ahead of the afterschool vacuum cleaner outside my classroom.

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April 8th
Poem #4: “The Cypress Broke” by Mahmoud Darwish

Related Resources: In the video, I also mention Hopkins’s “Binsey Poplars” and Burns’s “Verses on the Destruction of the Woods Near Drumlanrig.”

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April 5th
Poem #3: “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W.B. Yeats

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April 3rd
Poem #2: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth *In which I do not rerecord despite an Interruption of Nine-Year-Olds (that’s their official collective name, you know), because poetry and life go together, right?

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April 2nd
Poem #1: “Lost Things” by Sara Teasdale

Related Resources: Check out Tweetspeak’s National Poetry Month offerings, as well as my 2022 book club based on Earth Song.