June 29

 Ode to the Fish -- by Ellen Bass (picked by Jan)

The Fish by Mary Oliver

In my 2009 gift  book of favorite poems from O Pen participants: 

Applesauce by Ted Kooser  (Thanks Joyce!)

Different Ways to Pray by  Naomi Shihab Nye (Thanks Emily!)

What He Thought  by Heather McHugh. (from Charlotte Brusso.  Also one of my favorites!)

Also in this book : Asleep in the Mojave Desert  by Sylvia Plath (thank you Jim!)

A Christmas Carol by Christina Rossetti (thank you Mary!)

Two Old Crows  by Vachel Lindsay

Friend's Greeting by Edgar A. Guest: https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=1687

Mark Harris in 1959 exhorted us to declare ... once and forever... he was never a poet."

And yet... do we not all feel, as Doris quoted in his first stanza, " Friend's Greeting" 

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me;
I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be;
I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day
As you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way