April is Poetry Month; I'll try to share a poem each day. -I don't read much poetry. This will be a fun way to get into it.

James has met a sort of smear.
John is getting very near.

Is he going fast enough?
(James has found a piece of fluff.)

John has quickly hurried by.
(James was talking to a fly.)

John is there, and John has won!
Look! I told you! Here's the sun!

James has just begun to ooze.
He's the one I want to lose.

John is waiting to begin.
He's the one I want to win.

James is going slowly on.
Something sort of sticks to John.

John is moving off at last.
James is going pretty fast.

John is rushing down the pane.
James is going slow again.

These are my two drops of rain
Waiting on the window-pane.

I am waiting here to see
Which the winning one will be.

Both of them have different names.
One is John and one is James.

All the best and all the worst
Comes from which of them is first.

Lindy West

Sylvia Plath

Giulia Enders

Tracey Lindberg

Roxane Gay

Katherine Rowland

Elif Shafak

Alice Hoffman

Angie Thomas

Erin Morgenstern

Andrea Wulf

Isabella Star LaBlanc

Virginia Woolf

Amanda Montell

Lilian Jackson Braun

Jessica Johns

Glory Edim

Nazanine Hozar

Maria Campbell

Bell Hooks

Joshua M. Ferguson PhD

Katherena Vermette

Terese Marie Mailhot

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