On my shelf I have four poetry anthologies which provide you with a poem for each day of the year. If you know someone beginning their career as a teacher this year one of these would be a fabulous gift or if you work in a school library why not use these as a way to share poems with the teachers in your school or share one each day in your library.
I decided to look at 1st January and here is a poem that appealed to me from A Whale of a Time:
The First Book by Rita Dove
Open it.
Go ahead, it won’t bite.
Well … maybe a little.
More a nip, like. A tingle.
It’s pleasurable, 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.
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