Video Poems

While there are many ways to share poetry, be it by book, blog, spoken, or some such communique, I have found video posts to be like Dark Chocolate Dove Bites–savory and long-lasting.

Here is the poem:

This is Just to Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

William Carlos Williams

And here is the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d5bLf0gq2Q

The poem came alive for me in a different way once viewing the performance.  I remember studying William Carlos Williams in college.  I thought his poems rather mundane–I mean, he talked about wheelbarrows, chickens, plums–all ordinary stuff.  And then I realized there is a cadence, a melody, in all those everyday aspects of life.

For more video poems go to:

www.poets.org

and

www.favoritepoem.org/videos.html

 

Happy Poetry Month!!

William Carlos Williams: writer of wheelbarrows, plums, and chickens

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The Joy of Books

I know e-readers are a great new way to read books, but I admit to being old-fashioned and love the feel, smell, sound of books in hand when I read.  For those of you who share the same feelings, you will no doubt enjoy this video.