WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE POEM AND WHY?

That was the question Nicola Behrman asked her pals on the eve of Thanksgiving 2010.
Then, on a whim, she asked them to write it out by hand and pop it into the mail to her in California. Guess what happened? In this fast paced, modern world, where we can hardly find the time to respond to our emails, poem after poem in stamped addressed envelopes started landing on her doorstep. Beautiful poems, silly poems, some straight out bizarre poems arrived on postcards, handmade pieces of paper and even one on the back of a CBS writer’s contract. Every single one a favorite to someone on the planet.

Then a crazy thing happened. She started receiving poems from people she’d never met. Then another. And another. Suddenly, she had a collection of different peoples’ favorite poems in a “flick-and-tell” book that she’d cart around and show anyone that asked.

Now she’s sharing them with you through Poetry Tuesdays and invites you to ponder the very same question: What’s your favorite poem? And why?

Feel free to write it out and pop it in the post to her at Poetry Post HQ. She’ll be forever grateful. As will the rest of the Poetry Post gang, of which you are now a member.

Welcome.

curious as hell
some would say just plain nosy
but they’re not so smart

making things since two
wedding words, kissing paper
breathing lines and hues

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