In honor of National Poetry month, I bravely post here my very first, and likely last, poem, inspired by Richard Blanco’s wonderful poem for the President’s inauguration, <a title=”One Today” href=”http://www.richard-blanco.com/inaugural-poet/one-today.php”>One Today</a>, and by his equally wonderful reading in Portland earlier this month.
Why I Don’t Write Poems
When it came time to pen
his poem about America, fellow
Mainer Richard Blanco wrote about
a school bus “pencil yellow.”
No one asked me to write that ode
but if they had
it would have been a
a school bus “mustard-yellow.”
And that is why
Richard Blanco is a poet
and I…
‘m not.