April
March saunters off
in a daffodil flourish
and gambol of lambs,
April arrives
with a sprint of fools
and poets with
poems in pockets,
on street corners,
in taxis
on subways,
unfettered and borderless,
random rhymes,
poetic snippets (or
what’s a haiku for?)
heroic odes,
rich tapestries:
well-chiseled words,
cooked and eaten
and stirred.
Have you heard?
It’s rational
National
Poetry Month
Share your flair:
Come,
wax poetic,
if you dare…
Carol A. Stephen lives in Carleton Place. Carol has read at Sasquatch and Tree Reading Series, Ottawa. A member of The League of Canadian Poets, Canadian Authors Association, The Ontario Poetry Society, and Arts Carleton Place, Carol writes Arts Alive! for the Carleton Place Canadian and Arts InthePlace for the Humm.
