How did I only find this out now?!

[delga]

April, apparently, is National Poetry Month. Why did I not know this?! As a result, I'm going to link to 11 poems and post a twelfth here. And everyday this month, I'm going to post another poem. Yes? Yes. I'll try not to link to Prufrock or Cope's Flowers again. I won't even link to Plath's Daddy, ok?

1. April 1st: To Any Reader by Robert Louis Stevenson
   
2. April 2nd: The Actor by Ernest Henry
   
3. April 3rd: The Computation by John Donne
   
4. April 4th: 'Death is a dialogue between' by Emily Dickinson
   
5. April 5th: The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot
   
6. April 6th: Attack by Siegfried Sassoon
   
7. April 7th: Mental Cases by Wilfred Owen
   
8. April 8th: The Guppy by Ogden Nash
   
9. April 9th: An extract from 'Sing-song' by Christina Rossetti
   
10. April 10th: The Rival by Sylvia Plath
    
11. April 11th: Sonnet 141; 'In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes' by Shakespeare
    
12. April 12th:

As Sweet by Wendy Cope

It's all because we're so alike -
Twin souls, we two.
We smile at the expression, yes,
And know it's true.

I told the shrink. He gave our love
A different name.
But he can call it what he likes -
It's still the same.

I long to see you, hear your voice,
My narcissistic object-choice.

I love that last couplet. I can't decide if the poem's funny or not, though.