Poetry Friday: A Sudden Line of Poetry

So many ways to celebrate National Poetry Month! For the most complete compilation, visit Jama Rattigan's growing list of sites to visit.

I have especially enjoyed Irene Latham's Progressive Poem. Margaret Simon adds today's line. And Heidi Mordhort's 30 Days 30 Words. Each of these offerings embraces the simplicity and the creativity my heart is craving this April. 

My offering today is the perfect celebration of "a sudden line of poetry" with Denise Levertov.

Enjoy many more Poetry Friday offerings with our host today, Diane Mayr at Random Noodling.

The Secret

by Denise Levertov

Two girls discover

the secret of life

in a sudden line of

poetry.

I who don't know the

secret wrote

the line. They

told me

(through a third person)

they had found it

but not what it was

not even

what line it was. No doubt

by now, more than a week

later, they have forgotten

the secret,

the line, the name of

the poem. I love them

for finding what

I can't find,

and for loving me

for the line I wrote,

and for forgetting it

so that

a thousand times, till death

finds them, they may

discover it again, in other

lines

in other

happenings. And for

wanting to know it,

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