End
There are
No clocks on the wall,
And no time,
No shadows that move
From dawn to dusk
Across the floor.
There is neither light
Nor dark
Outside the door.
There is no door!
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Hello Friends —
Well, that's it! "End" by Langston Hughes (included in his Selected Poems (1959)) concludes this April's poem-a-day series on this, the last day of National Poetry Month 2012. We've visited poems from 1000 and poems from 2012; ballad, haiku, abecedarius, concrete poetry, found poetry, quatrains, heroic couplets, and free verse; poems about family, love, death, war, money, transience, David Bowie, Dorothy Allison, Julius Caesar, birds, housework, and grilled cheese sandwiches. I hope that a poem or two spoke to you, and I thank you very much for indulging me in this celebration of works I love.
If you would ever like to re-visit a poem, you can find a list of the poem-a-days I've sent you this month (as well as past years) at meetmein811.blogspot.com. As always, you can also learn more about National Poetry Month at the website of the Academy of American Poets, www.poets.org.
Thank you,
Ellen