A Cup of Moon
by Amy LV
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Students - Today's poem came from some play in my notebook. I love the look of sunlight and moonbeams, the feel of how light through a window can change a whole room. Yesterday, January 1st, our living room was full of sunlight made even brighter by twinkling piles of snow outside. When I began writing in my little book last night, light filled my mind. I imagined a few things: braiding my hair with moonbeams, listening to the moon share a New Year's resolution, and finally drinking moonlight from a cup.
You'll notice that this poem includes the word and over and over again, something I usually try to avoid. Why did I include it so many times here? Well, for the same reason that this poem is just one long sentence...I wanted to have a feeling of breathlessness. Wouldn't you feel breathless if you drank a cup of moonlight? What other imaginary impossibilities might make you want to talk so quickly that you'd forget to speak with punctuation?
Breathlessness and wonder are two storehouses from which you can welcome many many poems. And this year, in 2013, I wish you much of both...lots of breathlessness and many winks of wonder.
This year I resolve to write more poems...but I have not yet decided how many of them will show up here on The Poem Farm. Part of my resolution includes working to submit more manuscripts with the hope they will turn into real paper books. This may mean that I will post a bit less...it may not.
Don't miss the CYBILS POETRY BOOK FINALISTS and the POETRY NERDIES for 2012! The beginning of a new year is a fantastic time to catch up on poem books...
Happy 2013!
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