National Poetry Day today

The Guardian has a mood poem finder.

In the meanwhile here is one by Rita Dove


The First Book

Open it.

Go ahead, it won't bite.
Well... maybe a little.

More a nip, like. A tingle.
It's pleasureable, really.

You see, it keeps on opening.
You may fall in.

Sure, it's hard to get started;
remember learning to use

knife and fork? Dig in:
You'll never reach bottom.

It's not like it's the end of the world -
just the world as you think

you know it.


From On The Bus With Rosa Parks pub by Norton