In April

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In April there are quite a few celebrations people look forward to. Like in our State, West Bengal in India we celebrate Bengali New Year every April. The first month of the Bengali calendar is called Boishakh. Happy people out on streets are a common sight. 

 April is also the National Poetry Month in America which is ‘the largest literary celebration in the world’. The Academy of American Poets and other poetry organizations hold various events. Month-long observance of an art form is truly inspiring. Every day is poetry day for many poets.

 Then there is the Earth Day celebrated on April 22 every year to safeguard our home, this planet with the dream of a sustainable and thriving future. This year The Earth Day turns 55. Our wish is for a happy Earth Day.

 In this eventful month of April how will you keep yourself busy?

Like I might be busy in some extremely mundane chores but I’ll try to make a poem out of them. The mind is whimsical and sometimes out of control and if you find me celebrating on procrastination you know what I am doing. Smiles.

Therefore focus on your “feeling” / “being”/ or “doing” words in and around April and share with us.

 

Here is a poem from Rainer Maria Rilke :

 

In April

 

Again the woods are odorous, the lark
Lifts on upsoaring wings the heaven gray
That hung above the tree-tops, veiled and dark,
Where branches bare disclosed the empty day.

 

After long rainy afternoons an hour
Comes with its shafts of golden light and flings
Them at the windows in a radiant shower,
And rain drops beat the panes like timorous wings.

 

Then all is still. The stones are crooned to sleep
By the soft sound of rain that slowly dies;
And cradled in the branches, hidden deep
In each bright bud, a slumbering silence lies.

 

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