Poetry

Ada Limón Poems – Five of our Favorites by the Former US Poet Laureate

We’re continuing on with our National Poetry Month celebration! Each day, we’ve highlighted another American poet and shared a few of our favorite poems. Today’s we feature the poems of Ada Limón.

 

Instructions on Not Giving Up
Ada Limón

 

SNIPPET:

More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s
almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving
their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate
sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees

[Click here to read the full poem,
as well as an accompanying essay.]

 

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