My name is Jess.

Hey there! Just your local college geek here to tell you that it is National Poetry Month. So, I thought it would be neat to make a post where everyone can post a favorite poem, or even something of their own!

So, I guess I'll kick things off with a poem by Billy Collins. It's called "Introduction to Poetry". I thought it would be a good way to start. :)

Introduction to Poetry

I ask them to take a poem

and hold it up to the light

like a color slide

 

or press an ear against its hive.

 

I say drop a mouse into a poem

and watch him probe his way out,

 

or walk inside the poem’s room

and feel the walls for a light switch.

 

I want them to waterski

across the surface of a poem

waving at the author’s name on the shore.

 

But all they want to do

is tie the poem to a chair with rope

and torture a confession out of it.

 

They begin beating it with a hose

to find out what it really means.

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  --Billy Collins