April marks National Poetry Month. In tribute, here are a few selections for your reading pleasure.

A TRIBUTE TO SINGER JILL SCOTT

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Make notes gloat

Each time

You send them into the universe

Proud to be

The medium

By which you move

So many---

Privileged

For their part,

In the joy

You create.

(C) 2006 Jennifer Brown Banks

This Distance

an you touch me from over there? let my arms reach & hold you as long as this thought can keep our hope alive when I need to feel your presence even at this distance you're near & your love.

(C) 1992 Henry L. Jones Excerpted from "Tell Me No Lies"  

LOVE POEM

My muse rolled over

in bed

searched for my lips

in the dark

feeling and filling

the moisture between us

we slowly made a poem

afterwards I wrote it

she slept.

(C) 2008 Henry L. Jones

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