KUNC invited you, the audience, to join us in celebrating National Poetry Month, and you did NOT disappoint!
We received haikus, limericks and couplets from KUNC listeners across northern Colorado, including three members of the Loveland Poet Laureate Committee. We even had an out-of-stater find us and join the fun.
Check out this year’s National Poetry Month submissions:
The nature of Colorado provided the bulk of the inspiration for our participants. Many embraced the simple beauty found in Colorado every day.
By Josh Datko of Fort Collins:
Flowers grow in our alpine sky,
swaying soft where columbines fly,
petals in blue and white,
blooming through cloudless night,
where old and quiet mountains lie.
By Sally Harms of Brighton:
The day’s sun shines bright.
It sinks into the dark sky.
The moon fills the night.
By Roger Clark with Loveland Poet Laureate Advisory Committee:
The full moon hung above Long's Peak
like a crystal ball above a darkened dance floor.
By Katherine Delanoy in Eagle:
Aspens have catkins,
fuzzy kitties in springtime,
warming green leaf buds
Some listener poets talked about our unique weather outlook.
By Lynn Kincanon with Loveland Poet Laureate Advisory Committee:
Spring snow on lilac
heavy, bending blossoms low.
Oh, Colorado!
By Lorrie Wolfe with Loveland Poet Laureate Advisory Committee:
Daffodils and snow
falling down together - That's
spring, Colorado
By Lynn Kincanon with Loveland Poet Laureate Advisory Committee:
The morning darkens
Birds are pecking at the ice
Winter turns to spring
By Lorrie Wolfe with Loveland Poet Laureate Advisory Committee:
To know spring, first know winter. Wake the pine!
When snowflakes and tulips pas de deux, winter loses again.
Others wrote about the natural world in our state from a different angle, both from their own viewpoints and through the eyes of others.
By Tyler Del Ciotto of Highlands Ranch:
Evergreens frame distant mountains masked by clouds.
Antlers drift through murmuring bronze grass, masts parting mist.
By Matt Nelson of Loveland:
A wet vein of April dawn chill works its way through the hills to the west
before wedging itself between me and bed.
By Josh Datko of Fort Collins:
On the lone blue spruce
rests a lark bunting, crying –
for fires, burning.
By Lorrie Wolfe with Loveland Poet Laureate Advisory Committee:
A white Christmas dream:
Where our snowman’s chilly hands
Warm our children’s hearts
By Lynn Kincanon with Loveland Poet Laureate Advisory Committee:
Bindweed assures us one's work is eternal.
There is life after death.
We also got a couple of poems recognizing KUNC as an important part of the community (Aw, shucks…. You really like us!).
By Traci Neal of Columbia, South Carolina:
KUNC gives the news for the day,
but this month, it is poetry their way.
Three different short forms bring sunshine to life’s storms.
Happiness is right here to stay.
By Josh Datko of Fort Collins:
From Horsetooth Peak to the fields below,
we are brought together with the radio.
And finally, a token of gratitude for helping make this collaboration possible.
By Nikole Robinson Carroll with KUNC:
To make National Poetry Month sing,
you let your inner poets’ voices ring.
You dot the airwaves with your pieces and names.
Thanks, KUNC fans, for your writing!
Want more listener poems? We featured people's eight-word poems last National Poetry Month. Check them out here.
