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greatpoetry2010-03-31 01:40 pm
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Request! Ted Kooser!
Oh God, I am like a REQUEST DEMON this month. WHATEVER! It's National Poetry Month starting tomorrow, calloo callay! It is 74 degrees outside (which I wouldn't know because I am stuck inside this office building!)! It is spring and that means excessive use of exclamation points!
Spring! Poems about spring! Pleeease, you will make the drudgery of technical writing sooo much better. And for you, the glorious Ted Kooser:
Old Lilacs
by Ted Kooser
Through early April cold,
these thin gray horses
have come near the house
as to a fence, and lean there
hungry for summer,
nodding their heads
with a nickering of twigs.
Their long legs are dusty
from standing for months
in winter’s stall, and their eyes
are like a cloudy sky
seen through bare branches.
They are waiting for May
to come up from the barn
with her overalls pockets
stuffed from the fodder
of green. In a month
they will be slow and heavy,
their little snorts so sweet
you’ll want to stand
among them, breathing.
Spring! Poems about spring! Pleeease, you will make the drudgery of technical writing sooo much better. And for you, the glorious Ted Kooser:
Old Lilacs
by Ted Kooser
Through early April cold,
these thin gray horses
have come near the house
as to a fence, and lean there
hungry for summer,
nodding their heads
with a nickering of twigs.
Their long legs are dusty
from standing for months
in winter’s stall, and their eyes
are like a cloudy sky
seen through bare branches.
They are waiting for May
to come up from the barn
with her overalls pockets
stuffed from the fodder
of green. In a month
they will be slow and heavy,
their little snorts so sweet
you’ll want to stand
among them, breathing.