As I strive to become a better listener and to connect more with my
sense of hearing, National Poetry Month 2026 finds me writing daily,
handwritten, index card poems inspired by sounds and listening.. I have begun a new
notebook to collect the sounds I notice throughout the month, and I will
reflect on them in short poems. My ears - and my heart - are open wide.
I invite you to join me in this project, on any of my projects from the past 16 years,
or on a project of your very own. To do so, simply write a
poem each day of April in any way you wish. Share or don't share, as
you wish. Your poems are your poems. Your projects are your projects.
And if you wish learn a bit more about writing poetry, I welcome you to
the short lessons in the tab above: COAXING POEMS VIDEOS - 2024.
National Poetry Month 2026 Poems
Here is poem 21 -
Students - I do not have a grandfather clock where I live now, but in my childhood home, we had a grandfather clock that ticked and chimed every quarter hour. I found those chimes comforting, and so even though I did not plan to write about a grandfather clock but just a clock today, that old friend from my past returned to bring a bit of personification to my poem. For, you see, grandfather clocks do not really counsel humans. But writers can make them do so!
It seems that here in the middle of the month, I continue to happily slide into rhyme. I am not doing this on purpose, but the rhymes are, indeed, finding their way into the lines. We'll see if this happens tomorrow.
I do like the idea of today's sound teaching me a life tip, helping me live differently because I am listening carefully. Perhaps there is a sound in your life that counsels or teaches you in some way. What might it be? What can you learn from a sound in your life?
To
learn about many of the wonderful National Poetry Month projects
happening online this April, visit the generous Jama Rattigan at Jama's Alphabet Soup.
Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Tick-tock.
xo,
a.
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