National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture.
Each week, we’ll reveal our poet and poem of the week starting on April 1! National Poetry Month content will be available on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, so follow along on your favorite platform.
the spirits of the trees (2024) by Hadrian Cerulean
screams and threats at my back,
I sought refuge in my favorite tree,
an old cedar, huge and majestic,
confident she would shelter me
I climb her evergreen boughs, which radiate
from her trunk like bicycle spokes
as I reach the top, though intimidating,
I sway with the wind’s music box notes
she cradles me in her branches, whisking
away my worries, assuaging my fears,
while she and her sister trees whisper…
“you are more, you are more, you are more”
now, though decades have passed,
I carry the spirits of the trees wherever I go,
and it is there that at last,
I have found home
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