April is Poetry Month! 

Visit Citizen Teacher each day in April to find an original poem–along with photos, book suggestions, and links to other poetry-related content.

Thoroughly Thoreau

a poem found in Walden

Walden Pond

The sun arose,

throwing off its nightly clothing of mist.

Here and there, by degrees,

soft rippes or smooth reflecting surface

revealed itself.

Mists. like ghosts,

stealthily withdrew in every direction,

into the woods:

a breaking up

of the nocturnal conventicle.

A Philosopher's Wisdom

Live deliberately.

Front only the essential facts of life.

Learn what life has to teach.

Live deep.

Suck out all the marrow.

Love your life.

Coming To The Senses

Why should I feel lonely?

Is not our planet in the Milky Way?

I am on the alert for the first signs of spring...

A delicious evening:

the whole body is one sense,

and imbibes delight

through every pore.

I go and come

with a strange liberty

in Nature,

a part of herself.

Heaven is

under our feet

as well as

over our heads.

lisa eddy (she/her) is a writer, researcher, youth advocate,

environmental educator, and musician. Email: lisagay.eddy1@gmail.com