Button Poetry

Hey y’all. In case you didn’t know… it’s National Poetry Month. Now, I am not a poet, not by a long shot, but I appreciate poetry. I particularly love to hear poets read their own work. I find that, when I listen to poetry, images jump into my mind and swim around, transforming like some Fantasia-style jumble and more often than not I walk away with some sort of insight or inspiration pertaining to my own work.

Used to be that you had to actually go to poetry readings if you wanted to hear a poet share their work. It took the whole night and there was no guarantee the poetry would be any good. Sometimes you got stuck in a place for hours, too embarrassed to leave because you were one of only three people in the audience. Of course, that was always a good excuse to drink more, but as a grown-up, I just don’t have that kind of time anymore.

As a result, my intake of poetry tapered off until I discovered Button Poetry. Almost every day they post a video of a poet reading their work. I don’t even know how they maintain this stream of content and frankly I don’t want to know. It’s magical. It allows me to enjoy a few minutes of poetic beauty every day. May all the rainbows end at their front door.

Here’s the poem they posted yesterday. It’s by an artist named Chibbi. It nearly brought me to tears.

Let’s hear it for the poets.