April is National Poetry Month! All month long we’ll be celebrating by posting some of our favorite poems for Poetry Friday. For today’s Poetry Friday, we chose a poem from Under the Mesquite, written by Guadalupe Garcia McCall.
a mesquite in the rose garden
In the squint of the morning,
before anyone else is awake,
when the roaring sounds
of unbridled verses
rush furiously through my head,
the mesquite is my confidant.
I lean my back against its sturdy trunk
and read aloud every word
imprinted en mi corazón.
The mesquite listens quietly–
as if the poems budding in my heart,
then blossoming in my notebook,
are Scripture–and never tells a soul
the things I write.
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What are you reading for National Poetry Month? Let us know in the comments!
