Poetry can enhance understanding of life’s moments. It tells a story and gets you to another level of experiencing the world. And April is the month when poetry lovers explore ways to push poetry into the literary mainstream. I like the idea so I participate in my own small way on my blog, Telling Stories. This year I missed a lot, but I will be closing the month by posting a poem a day over there. I started yesterday. If you get a chance, please stop by and let me know what you think.

During National Poetry Month, I generally step up my poem writing and posting and read more. Through the Twitter search, there is a lot of poetry from all over the web. It’s a great place to find a huge cross section of poets and poems and back-stories. I’ve come across some great poetry voices and you can too. And, if this is your month to get started, I hope you’ll continue beyond this month to enjoy the gift that poetry offers.

One blog I came across from exploring #npm is Susan Taylor Brown. It’s been a please reading her poetry and other offerings.

Are you reading all the great stuff that’s online? Or, writing your own poetry? Tell me how you celebrate National Poetry Month. When you want to share poetry on Twitter, add #npm or #poetry month so all searchers can find them, including me, even if we’re not friends. By the way, my Twitter ID is @sharils