As the seasons change, poets celebrate the rebirth of nature and dream of a better future for all humanity even as they remind us of the most troubling realities of our times. This month we welcome the flowering of spring as we feature poems of Hope, Dreams and the beauty of our fragile world.
Exodus by Lotte Kramer
‘If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind‘
Song: On May Morning by John Milton
from The Song of Solomon , The King James Bible
Proud Songsters by Thomas Hardy
The Trees by Philip Larkin
Swallows by Owen Sheers
Nothing Special by Zbigniew Herbert Translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott
Coltsfoot and Larches by David Constantine
Bowl by Elizabeth Cook
from Ode to the West Wind by P.B. Shelley
Poems of Hope
I Sing of Change by Niyi Osundare
From The Vision of Piers Plowman by William Langland
The Sunflower by Eugenio Montale
Canticle by John F. Deane
Coda by Louis MacNeice
Concerto for Double Bass by John Fuller
Idyll by U A Fanthorpe
Happiness by Stephen Dunn
Poems of Earth and Space
from Auguries of Innocence by William Blake
Out There by Jamie McKendrick
Song in Space by Adrian Mitchell
The Bonnie Broukit Bairn by Hugh MacDiarmid
Spacetime by Miroslav Holub translated by David Young and Dana Hábová
I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon by Stephen Crane
Dreams
Dreams by Robert Herrick
Dream by Kathleen Raine
The Rescue by Seamus Heaney
The Reassurance by Thom Gunn
Rain Travel by W.S. Merwin
A dream of leavin
dreamer by Jean Binta Breeze
You can see our poems for April 2022 here