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Each April, I celebrate National Poetry Month by sharing some of what I love about poetry through a series of 30 poems — one poem per day, delivered to your email inbox, from April 1 - 30. That makes for 30 days, 30 poems, and 30 poets. In 2012, I also converted my poem-a-day email series to this blog format.

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Poem-A-Day April 20: Reflecting

The Up Side

The pines are
stately

still

reflecting
upon themselves

without knowing it

in eternity

upside down.

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Ron Padgett’s “The Up Side” appeared in the May 2019 issue of Poetry Magazine.

Posted on April 20, 2020April 23, 2020Author tgifreytagCategories April 2020

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