about poetry-related things, don't hate me

1) WHY DID I NOT THINK OF THIS FIRST?? - haikus are totally my thing.  once I facebook-wall-bombed all my friends with haikus (better known as the FFH...Facebook Friend Haiku. maybe you've heard of it).  They were just silly expressions of love in 5-7-5 form and maybe I'll do them again sometime because they were weird and probably annoyed everyone.  Also, for a project in a summer class last year I created a series of haikus that were rearrangements of phrases from Emily Dickinson poems.  But THIS is genius.  Someone put parts of the bible in Haiku form. And for some dumb reason it wasn't me. props, dude. major props.

2) WHY DOES THIS POEM MAKE ME FEEL LIKE WATCHING ROM-COMS?? - Once my dear friend Caroline and I were writing and drinking coffee in Crozet and it was National Poem in Your Pocket Day (coffee, friends, poetry, Crozet...I think my mind was probably exploding with awesomeness) and so when we got our coffee we were also given little poems to slip in our pockets and keep! Mine was Dancing Toward Bethlehem by Billy Collins and when I read it I exploded into girly swoon-tastic squeals because it is just. so. darn. romantic.  Dare you to read that and tell me you don't want to snuggle up and watch Titanic and eat chocolates.  Dare you.

3) WHY IS D.C. SO AWESOME?? - Dear D.C., thank you for doing things like creating poetry exhibits such as this one at the National Portrait Gallery so I can go and join herds of fellow poetry dorks and stand in front of photos of Walt Whitman and get teary-eyed in public because he was the first poet I ever studied or ever loved and on the wall next to him is a poem that's just so beautiful and oh gosh people can see me WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME, it's ok, everyone else here loves this stuff too OH LET'S ALL HUG AND RECITE OUR FAVORITE VERSES! (exhibit up until April of next year.  you can go and it doesn't have to be quite so dramatic).