From One Book Lover

I hope you've popped over to Hedgehog Lover, my other blog, for a poem a day during National Poetry Month.  Here is a poem from 365 Days Subway: Poems by New Yorkers. Be sure to visit that website — it's amazing. An Unexpected Poem: Jeremy S 4/5 to 42nd Street from Fulton, Aug. 1st, 2013 My daughter pointed out that he was eating something strange. I could see a food book tucked behind him. What an enthusiastic and kind person — a social worker for World Trade Center workers who have become ill. An unexpected poem In the morning Eating the husk cherries I bought the day before. Reading a book Expecting no one to notice Tuning out the crowds A moment – or a few – Of imagined quiet. Who knows where this will go? An unexpected poem, A chance to think. Courtesy  365 Day Subway: Poems by New Yorkers Note: In 365 Days Subway: Poems by New Yorkers , the blogger Madeliene who, whenever she rides the subway, asks a stranger to write a poem. Go there

Welcome to National Poetry Month — and what better way than to start with poetry and cats? Here is an audio recording of T.S. Eliot reading one of his most famous and beloved poems: The Naming of Cats. (Read along with the poem included below.) Be sure to visit my other blog, Hedgehog Lover , for your daily dose of poetry in April.  The Naming of Cats The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. First of all, there's the name that the family use daily, Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James, Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey— All of them sensible everyday names. There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter, Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames: Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter— But all of them sensible everyday names. But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's pa