April is National Poetry month. In honor of that I thought I should post a few poems this month. I am not a poet and I know that so you are saved my feeble attempts. but I do enjoy poetry. Since I am a huge Shakespeare fan, I will start with a love sonnet
“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.”
William Shakespeare Sonnet 130
A good website for poetry is www.poetry.org