In honor of NPM, I am offering this CD (played several times) to you, dear poetry lovers. Hear Billy Collins read some of his favorite poems. Included are: Shoveling snow with the buddha, consolation, japan, wolf and many others. Just leave a comment here if you wish to be entered in the giveaway. ONE winner will be chosen and announced on Monday.Here is a poem by my friend Paula Yup.
Japanese Poems Say
What is right in front of you
the dirty laundry
the book of Japanese poems
the mug of Kona coffee
the grief over a friend with cancer
she is your cherry blossom
but of course you really don't know
these are only words after all
and this body is only today
who is to say tomorrow will come
that the sun will shine
a rainbow over there
the ocean will do its thing
waves here waves there
pounding surf somehow
the fisherman walks down the street
