April is National Poetry Month here in the U.S., so my theme is poetry and figurative language.

What’s your favorite poem? I have several, but I can’t reproduce them here. That would be mostly likely a copyright violation. So I will list titles and authors below.

• A Child’s Calendar by John Updike
• Red Sings from the Treetops by Joyce Sidman
• The Magic Wood by Henry Treece
• “The Coming of the Cold” by Theodore Roethke
• “Sorrows of Werther” by William Makepeace Thackeray
• Psalms and the Book of Proverbs