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National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month - And I know that you are super excited, but please contain yourself for a moment.

It should go without saying, that Nikki Giovanni is the best poet ever in life...

Okay fine, I'll put my personal opinion aside and just write the post already.


If you know anything about me, one of the main things you know is my obsession with Edgar Allan Poe's short stories: The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tale-Tell Heart, Hop Frog, The Purloined Letter, and it goes on and on and on. Although most people don't associate him with poems and since this is the perfect month to showcase one...here we go:

A Dream Within A Dream (1850)

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow --
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand --
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep -- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?


And how can you talk about National Poetry Month without mentioning Maya Angelou? You can't. But, since her poems tend to run very long, I'll give the following so that you can go explore on your own:

Biography
Official Website
List of Poems