This is a real wedding poem classic, and for good reason thanks to its beautiful imagery of suns ... embodies the awe-inspiring feelings of new life beginning. Written after the birth of Plath's ...
I carefully researched how to bait my trap. Took the small blonde charmer out of town. Stealer of cholla, eater of sun murdered plants. I knew it would die coming back.
From love poems for her and love poems for him to words exploring issues of unity and injustice, gender and race, the best poem books explore all aspects of life.
The theme this year is ‘counting’, and the poems gathered here explore this subject in a number of ways. Counting forms part of how we learn and play in youth, often reeled off in rhyming poems. We ...