Monday, February 22, 2021

Finding a Poem (Monday Poem)

 by Karla Kuskin


Dig deep in you.
Keep everything you find.
Sketch the ever changing views,
dappled behind your eyes,
rustling in your mind.
Unlock the weather
in your heart.
Unleash a thousand whispers,
let them shout.
Then
when you feel
the presence of a poem
waiting to spring
to sting
within you,
bewitch it
into words
and sing it out.



from Wonderful Words: Poems About Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening
Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Illustrated by Karen Barbour
Simon & Schuster, 2004

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