Dialing for Wisdom

I had the pleasure of hosting a poetry reading this past Saturday and will be featuring some of the poets in the upcoming weeks.

The first poet is Mara Schlackman who was inspired to write the poem Dialing for Wisdom after a visit to the Broward Art Guild's gallery in 2015:

Day 9: 2016 National Poetry Month

Why I Cry



So many tears I've cried yet I'm not done.

Not because it's election year and dirty

Slings are part of the game. As people shun

And shame and play guilty games for country.

So many tears still welled up inside me

Not because people are so self-centered

That they can't put the cellphone down even

When someone is right there helping.

We all think of our own needs and not of others.

I'm no different with things I want to do

As I wished to see all the worldly offers

Instead of spending some time to visit you.

So now I cry for all I can never say

And I wished you had lived even just one more day.

Copyright 2016 Suzzette Dawes

April 1, 2016

April 1st is April's Fools Day, a day renown for pranks

A free pass in some workplaces although it is a work day,

radio stations deejays have a field day 

And listeners delight in the prank.

It is also the beginning of National Poetry Month

And somewhere someone is writing yet another editorial

Declaring poetry is dead or why it matters.

More bothersome to me is why April?

When tradition holds the first day for fools.

A fool and is money may be easily parted

But are poets and their verse easily imparted

To the masses?

Copyright 2016 Suzzette Dawes