April – National Poetry Month
Few expressions of literature reflect our humanity more than poetry. It has a way of succintly and directly, through metaphor and symbolism, rhyme and meter, that exposes our most innermost selves. It speaks to the individual and it speaks to society. April is National Poetry Month and the 30 days of April barely seem long enough to explore all that poetry is.
If you haven’t explored poetry, thinking it too stuffy or perhaps too vague, take some time to rethink that stand. Poetry has a way of speaking to our hears and souls the way few forms of literature can. Although music has that ability, generally the written word is not so concise and prodding.
The page I have linked to below, for National Poetry Month, has a vast collection of poetry links that will satisfy any reader. They are organized in different fashion: There are poems about each season, there are collections by author, and there are collections by topic. Just stroll around a little. Give it a hour and release yourself from the noise of the technological age – the pace of a life that is going too fast for the nuturing of the human soul. 
You will find yourself and those you love in these words. Somewhere, somehow, there is a poet who has found what you feel most deeply within and put it into words. Once touched by those words, you will never be the same.
The two books I have selected are excellent and very affordable. The Best Loved Poems, is only $1.50. The book below will help you understand poetry – once you know how to read poems, you will never stop!
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