National Poetry Month | April

April is National Poetry Month as declared by the Academy of American Poets. I have of late been startled by how much non-fiction I consume and the effect it has on my output as a writer. So this month, I will {hopefully} post a poem everyday. I will post something I write fresh and a great poem from someone else.

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
by E. E. Cummings

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands


flowers
by Austin Pfeiffer

one bloom on the green yard
pops pink and blue
wagging a finger at you

the lips purse out
an inviting bubble gum, the kindest
and deeply nubile ripeness 

petals as pillows and arms
of spring's long 
until autumn's song