[New-Poetry] from Ted Kooser

[James Cervantes]

"Newborns begin life as natural poets, loving the sound of their own
gurgles and coos."  He really wrote that?  Yep, I guess he really did.

- Jim

On 1/4/07, Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:
>
> American Life in Poetry: Column 093
>
> BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006
>
> Newborns begin life as natural poets, loving the sound of their own gurgles
> and coos. And, with the encouragement of parents and teachers, children can
> continue to write and enjoy poetry into their high school years and beyond.
> A group of elementary students in Detroit, Michigan, wrote poetry on the
> subject of what seashells might say if they could speak to us. I was
> especially charmed by Tatiana Ziglar's short poem, which alludes to the way
> in which poets learn to be attentive to the world. The inhabitants of the
> Poetry Palace pay attention, and by that earn the stories they receive.
>
>
> Common Janthina
>
> My shell said she likes the king and queen
> of the Poetry Palace because they listen to her.
> She tells them all the secrets of the ocean.
>
> Reprinted by permission from "Shimmering Stars," Vol. IV, Spring, 2006,
> published by the InsideOut Literary Arts Project. Copyright (c) 2006 by the
> InsideOut Literary Arts Project. This weekly column is supported by The
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> the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This column does not accept unsolicited
> poetry.
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> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
> star!
> Friedrich Nietzsche
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