Jeremy Paden and Crystal Good are contributors to Esse Diem. Jeremy’s poem Easter Sunday, 2010 appeared here this spring, and Crystal is a writer for the Essays on Childhood project. Both of them are Affrilachian Poets.
Local Charleston folks, plan to come out and hear these beautiful people and other poets on Sunday at the Fishbowl event! You will not want to miss this FestivALL close-out extraordinaire.
Outside our bedroom window the weeping cherry
and Bradford pear glow with auroral light;
morning has not yet broken, but soon the sun,
not just its curving light, will clear the horizon.
A myriad birds, whose songs I cannot recognize,
utterly indifferent to our desire to sleep past
sun’s rising and well into this spring morning, sing.
Even our early-to-rise children, knowing it Sunday,
sleep late, but this first-light lambency, these birdsongs,
they wake us from a slumber different than sleep
to a world alive, in bloom, in song, now green.
Jeremy Dae Paden was born in Italy and raised in Latin America. He teaches Spanish at Transylvania University . Among his many achievements, he is published in Calíope, a critical journal of poetry of Spain and the Americas during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. He is also a member of the Affrilachian Poets.
It is an honor and a privilege for Esse Diem to post Professor Paden’s work. April is National Poetry Month; click here to find out more about celebrating poetry and its vital place in American culture.
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