What I learned this week

What I learned this week is hosted by JoLynn over at Musings of a Housewife (she has a Super giveaway on her reviewsing blog right now too - a desk top organizing system - check it out!)

I learned from my internet friend Laura that April is Poetry Month. I once fancied myself a poet. Actualy I still LOVE to write poems - I just don't have skills like the great! I thought in honor of poetry month I would share one of my all time favorites with you (the pros, not my own)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
We Wear the Mask

WE wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,

And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,

In counting all our tears and sighs?

Nay, let them only see us, while

We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries

To thee from tortured souls arise.

We sing, but oh the clay is vile

Beneath our feet, and long the mile;

But let the world dream otherwise,

We wear the mask!

And this has been a favorite poem of mine for a VERY long time - so long in fact that when my brother was just about 10 he made this for me (twenty years ago)

Oh the memories.