This April is the 24th National Poetry Month, a celebration established and organized by the Academy of American Poets.  Throughout the month, there are a number of specific events including Poem in Your Pocket Day, April 18, and the Dear Poet project.  Every school day this month, the King Street Chronicle will publish one poem in honor of National Poetry Month.  

Demeter’s Prayer to Hades
Rita Dove
This alone is what I wish for you: knowledge.
To understand each desire and its edge,
to know we are responsible for the lives
we change.  No faith comes without cost,
no one believes without dying.
Now for the first time
I see clearly the trail you planted,
what ground opened to waste,
though you dreamed a wealth
of flowers.
There are no curses, only mirrors
held up to the souls of gods and mortals.
And so I give up this fate, too.
Believe in yourself,
go ahead–see where it gets you.
Contributed by Upper School Drama Teacher and Director of Theatrical Productions Miss Michaela Gorman ’05
– Sydney Kim, Opinions Editor
Featured Image by Sydney Kim ’20