Poetry
Song
by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Some claim the origin of song
was a war cry
some say it was a rhyme
telling the farmers when to plant and reap
don't they know the first song was a lullaby
pulled from a mother's sleep
said the old woman
A significant
factor generating my delight in being
alive this springtime
is the birdsong
that like a sweeping mesh has captured... See more
by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Some claim the origin of song
was a war cry
some say it was a rhyme
telling the farmers when to plant and reap
don't they know the first song was a lullaby
pulled from a mother's sleep
said the old woman
A significant
factor generating my delight in being
alive this springtime
is the birdsong
that like a sweeping mesh has captured... See more
Song by Alicia Suskin Ostriker | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor
“Poems are not the words themselves but what the words transmit. Not the thunderclap, but how our bodies respond to the boom.”
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