Huge thank yous to Dana & Andre for creating it, Nathan for fueling it, and Carolee & Jill for being here from before the beginning.

And there are others who have contributed much since 2007- take a look at the Archives and you’ll see:
Andre Tan
Blythe
Carolee Sherwood
Christine Swint
Dana Guthrie Martin
Dave Jarecki
David Moolten
Deb Scott
January O’Neil
Jessica Fox-Wilson
Jill Crammond Wickham
Juliet Wilson
Kristen McHenry
Nathan Moore
Ren Powell
Robert Peake
Sage Cohen
Sarah J. Sloat
Tom Adam

(Of course that doesn’t account for the endless hours people like Dana, Andre and Nathan put into the site. You would faint if you knew that number. They would, too.)

But it is the poets who visit & play & who make poetry a part of their lives — YOU — who are also to be thanked.

Yay poets, yay poetry!

Write & be well.

Love,
Deb Scott

http://mayaganesan.blogspot.com/2010/04/napowrimo-30.html

To escape the crowds, we walk in the street
and press our feet into every crack,
hoping the earth will open enough

to let us slip into merciful darkness.
Countless light bulbs preen ecstatically
like a promise of hereafter, watch faces

stealing time but giving back the sun
or just another Coca-Cola ad. Life stops
just long enough for us to gaze up

into the glare, consider our year
so filled with death. Tired, we are ashes
but not yet dust, paper-thin embers

floating through the throng
as if we could become the glow
suffusing the air. Instead, we turn away

because all this light is overwhelming
after weeks spent contemplating
what the ground must look like

from underneath. Dirt has a way
of getting into everything – even these signs
smudging their way toward Central Park,

a blurry path to groves of trees
and tall fences behind which
animals huddle close and listen

to everyone in their cross-trainers
running from something.

Thank you to the staff of Read Write Poem. Thank you to all my fellow poets for your words, your time, your effort, your stamina, your tenacity. Thank you to everyone for their support. NaPoWriMo 2010 has been a blast!

Posted at: http://troysworktable.blogspot.com/2010/04/napowrimo-30.html

http://www.blacksciencefictionsociety.com/profiles/blogs/napowrimo-29-front-page-news

~~~~~~~

Invisible Mother

Please don’t assume
because I am childless
I am an alien
of Planet Parenthood.
Don’t presume that a child
has never taken root
in my body,
branded my heart.

If my eyes could speak my story,
if there were a symbol, a badge,
it would be easier for both of us.
But this truth
like all truth
will work its way out in time
like a splinter.

( http://jasonriedy.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/and-the-hour-draws-near/ )

http://undeadpoets.wordpress.com

This is in response to the NaPoWriMo prompt for Day 23, “Unlikely Couples”…

http://timkeeton.wordpress.com

Jeeves on Poetry

“Very good sir,”
Jeeves said,
with a tone that
suggested anything
but that.

“I don’t believe,
you should,
go shooting
in a bowler hat.”

“As a matter,
of fact,”
he added,
“I don’t believe
you should be
allowed a gun.”

“Why no, sir,”
he said,
“shooting at ducks
is not my idea of
fun.”

“Well, very good sir,
if you insist,
I will have just one,
but then it’s off to bed
for me
for soon will come the sun.”

Tim Keeton
(Undead)Poet/Wizard/Teller-of-tales

Sonnet

Who knew form was lurking around in my belly all month?

It’s been a pleasure. Thank you.

http://lanijo.com/poetry/letting-go

I’m going to check out the Big Tent.