In celebration of National Poetry Month, which starts today, I am going to share daily a poem that I wrote and also daily provide a link to another poem from one of three sites that share a poem each day on each site. Many of mine will be from a poetry reading I did in 2004 at a since-defunct cultural society in suburban Philadelphia where we lived at the time. This was the first one from that reading:

Poem

-- after reading 
Tao Te Ching 
translated by 
Stephen Mitchell

Strain not for the word,
let it come
like OM.
As simple as breath.
As deadly as 
the viper,
let it sink its
skin into your skin
until you become
the whisper of
being,
non-being
we all are 
becoming,
a breath lost
in the whirlwhind
nothing more,
something less by
less this way
comes
glimpses 
of the gone world 
spit out on
the page.

This poem should be the way I intended the line breaks in desk or mobile, portrait or landscape, but others I share probably will be best viewed in desktop and sometimes lansdcape. I’ll let you know. Why I’m sharing the link to the poems from the sites is so the line breaks remain according to how the poets formatted their poems. Here’s the first one I’ll share, today a poem by Billy Collins from The Poetry Foundation. Technically, it’s not from the poem a day project, but one I found instead.