It's #WomensHistoryMonth! All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets. Last one! "The Dandelions" by Helen Gray Cone
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Dandelions as a trooper band and then veterans.
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
30/31 Quest By Georgia Douglas Johnson.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52495/...
Ah, the eternal but futile quest for happiness! I know it well!
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
"In the Town a Wild Bird Singing" by Florence Coates.
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Being a town-living country boy, I relate to this!
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
28/31 "To the Pine Tree" by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, translated by Margaret Noodin.
poets.org/poem/pine-tree
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
27/31 "Poor Crow!" By Mary Mapes Dodge.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52068/...
I'd feed the poor crow. Would you?
I love crows!
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
26/31 "When Spring-time Cometh-On" by Anna Olcott Commelin.
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Lovely seasonal poem/love poem!
It's #WomensHistoryMonth! All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets. 25/31: "Witchwork" by Harriet Prescott Spofford.
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A poem about a March storm, but with mythic imagery.
It's #WomensHistoryMonth! All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
24/31: "The Three Lads" by Elizabeth Chandler Forman, a WWI poem.
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How the songs changed after this!
It's #WomensHistoryMonth! All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
23/31: "Think of Our Country's Glory" by the Quaker abolitionist Elizabeth Margaret Chandler.
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It's #WomensHistoryMonth! All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
22/31: "The Ghost" by Sara Teasdale.
www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/...
A ghost as a metaphor for an old unspoken love. Cool!
It's #WomensHistoryMonth! All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets. 21/31 "Lilacs" by Amy Lowell.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42992/...
Yes, it's a poem about lilacs, but it's also a poem about New England.
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
20/31 "Sea Poppies" by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle).
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48187/...
Lovely imagery in this one!
It's #WomensHistoryMonth! All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
19/20 "Dunbar" by Anne Spencer.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91326/...
"Ah, how poets sing and die!" What a lament!
It's #WomensHistoryMonth! All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets. 18/31 "Education" by Pauline Barrington.
www.poetryplatform.org/poem/3905/pa...
"For Christ's sake think" before you go to war.
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
17/31 "A Flower Piece" by Harriet Prescott Spofford.
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One involving flowers and fairies seems appropriate today.
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
16/31 "To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works" by Phillis Wheatley
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52519/...
A poem about art!
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
15/31 "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46446/...
This is a beautiful and powerful inspirational piece.
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
14/31 "Planetarium" by Adrienne Rich.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46568/...
"Galaxies of women, there", in the stars, shining as the stars.
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
13/31 Emily Dickinson "The Bee".
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/172857...
Having a bio degree, I must point out most bees seen are female, not male.
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
12/31 "Birds in Snow" by Hilda Doolittle.
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Neat comparison between bird tracks in snow and hieroglyphics.
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
11/31 "My Grave" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52083/...
Wilcox seemed to like the hustle and bustle of living. Not me!
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
10/31 "Meeting the Easter Bunny" by Rowena Bennett.
www.best-poems.net/rowena-basti...
Absolutely adorable piece!
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
9/31 "By The Lake" by Helen Hoyt
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Love the allusions to washing and the healing nature of bodies of water.
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
All month, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
8/31 "By Night when Others Soundly Slept" By Anne Bradstreet.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43698/...
Starts off like a poem about an insomniac.
It's #WomensHistoryMonth
All month long, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
7/31 "The Hermit Crab" by Mary Oliver.
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I like how she mentions connecting past to future.
It's #WomensHistoryMonth
All month long, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets
6/31 "Ashes of Life" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, a piece about loss and life goings on in spite of it.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44717/...
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
All month long, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
5/31 "A Winter Bluejay" by Sara Teasdale.
www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/...
Still winter around here, so the imagery is appropriate!
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
All month long, I'm doing a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. Each day this month, I'm posting links to works by #womenpoets.
4/31 "Autumn Wind" by Rowena Bennett.
www.best-poems.net/rowena-basti...
They say she wrote for children, but I like this one.
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
For the month, I'm going to do a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. All month long, I'll be posting links to works by #womenpoets.
3/31 "Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti, a piece obviously inspired by fairy lore.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/...
It's #WomensHistoryMonth!
For the month, I'm going to do a #31DaysPoemsByWomen #PoetryChallenge. All month long, I'll be posting links to works by #womenpoets.
2/31 "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath, a dark work about suicide attempts and rising from death.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49000/...
