An Unexpected Poem — National Poetry Month

This poem is from 365 Days Subway: Poems by New Yorkers, by a blogger who, whenever she rides the subway, asks a stranger to write a poem. Go there now. It's wonderful. Thanks to PBS NewsHour for leading me to this treasure.



An Unexpected Poem: Jeremy S
4/5 to 42nd Street from Fulton, Aug. 1st, 2013
My daughter pointed out that he was eating something strange. I could see a food book tucked behind him. What an enthusiastic and kind person — a social worker for World Trade Center workers who have become ill.


An unexpected poem
In the morning
Eating the husk cherries
I bought the day before.

Reading a book
Expecting no one to notice
Tuning out the crowds
A moment – or a few –
Of imagined quiet.

Who knows where this will go?
An unexpected poem,
A chance to think.

Courtesy  365 Day Subway: Poems by New Yorkers

Haiku Commemorating a Historic Event

A few days ago, people looked up to see a historic site: the space shuttle Discovery blasting across the sky for the last time.

It rode atop a special modified Boeing 747 airplane on its way to the Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

The event received plenty of coverage by local and national media, including PBS, whose photo is shown above. (Read the related PBS article here.)

Here is a haiku by my friend Karen Young about the experience:

Today the space craft

Got a real life piggy back

Ride to Washington

Thanks to Karen for sharing. More haikus to follow!


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