In Honor of National Poetry Month

Find a poem, post it on the blog with a visual representation of the poem. Feel free to include links, videos, etc. about the author and poem.

Here is a poem I love:

For All
   by Gary Snyder

Ah to be alive
on a mid-September morn
fording a stream
barefoot, pants rolled up,
holding boots, pack on,
sunshine, ice in the shallows,
northern rockies.

Rustle and shimmer of icy creek waters
stones turn underfoot, small and hard as toes
cold nose dripping
singing inside
creek music, heart music,
smell of sun on gravel.

I pledge allegiance

I pledge allegiance to the soil
of Turtle Island,
and to the beings who thereon dwell
one ecosystem
in diversity
under the sun
With joyful interpenetration for all.



Some links for further readings on Gary Snyder:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/gary-snyder

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1323/the-art-of-poetry-no-74-gary-snyder

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/snyder/snyder.htm