Welcome to Poem of the Week, an annual feature on this blog that celebrates National Poetry Month. Every Sunday, in the month of April, start the week off with an uplifting poem and discovery why poetry still matters.
Although things may be returning to some normalcy, poetry can still provide us the comfort and solace we need during these trying times. Poetry is such an amazing and inspiration genre to take part in and National Poetry Month is great to discover its powerful impact. So let these words move you…you will not regret it.
There is a bat
In Chile named
Micronyteris giovanniae
Dr. Robert Baker named it
After me. He discovered it
While studying bats
And thought the big ears
Were just like me
Maybe if the bat wrote
She would be
A poet
There is a plaque
In Lincoln Heights
Where I went
To school
And a Plaque
In Knoxville
Across the street
Where my grandparents lived
I’m also lucky
To have awards and daydreams
Or is that
Daydreams
And Awards
And I’m lucky to be happy
At what I do
And how I do it
So that is this
Bio
I’m here
And if I mist
On emotional soil
A weed will
Grow
Make Me Rain
Let me be a part
Of this needed change
You can find this poem and more in Giovanni’s collection, “Make Me Rain”:
To discover more poems, please visit Poetry Foundation
Discover more from cup of tea with that book, please
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