• Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

The Poetry Box

  • About
    • Mission
    • What’s in a Name?
    • Meet the Team
    • Contact
    • Privacy Policy
  • Contests & Awards
    • The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize 2025
    • 2024 Winners
    • 2023 Winners
    • 2022 Winners
    • 2021 Winners
    • 2020 Winners
    • 2019 Winners
    • 2018 Winners
    • Pushcart Nominees
  • Publishing
    • Poetry Books, Chapbooks, & Illustrated Collections
    • Testimonials from Authors
  • The Poeming Pigeon
  • Events
    • The Poetry Box – LIVE
    • Our YouTube Channel
    • All Events / Readings
  • Newsletters
  • Bookstore
    • All Books
    • Overstock Sale
    • Art Prints
  • Cart

Poem of the Day (04-08-2018)

April 8, 2018 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

To celebrate National Poetry Month, The Poetry Box is sharing a Poem-of-the-Day, selected from various anthologies and individual poet collections that we have published over the years.

National Poetry Month, 2018 - Poem of the Day at The Poetry Box

Please enjoy today’s selection: “Before They Reheat the Rod” by Penelope Scambly Schott, which appears in Of Course, I’m a Feminist!

Before They Reheat the Rod

In the ancient city, they heated iron rods
and blinded all the daughters.

Then they told the daughters Every man
is brave and beautiful.

In that city, they blessed the girls’ hands
and set them to spin in the dark.

Behind bronze gates, the daughters sang
the hymns almost as instructed,

but they sang in a language understood
only by birds of prey.

Listen. The wings of the blind daughters
summoned a wild sirocco wind

so that sand dunes buried the ancient city.
What endures now is the song.

Do you know it?
Whisper the words in your daughter’s ear.


Previous-Poem-of-the-Day
 
Next-Poem-of-the-Day

Share to Social Media:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • LinkedIn
  • More
  • Email
  • Tumblr

Like this:

Like Loading...

Filed Under: National Poetry Month, Poem of the Day 2018 Tagged With: Feminism, National Poetry Month, Penelope Scambly Schott, poem-of-the-day

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

I accept that my given data and my IP address is sent to a server in the USA only for the purpose of spam prevention through the Akismet program.More information on Akismet and GDPR.

Footer

Gold Logo  

Email:
Shawn@ThePoetryBox.com

Talk/Text:
(530)409-0721

The Poetry Box Newsletter Signup

Calls for Submissions, New Releases, Publishing Opportunities, Readings





CLMP logo
Copyright © 2025 The Poetry Box · Site Designed by Shawn Aveningo Sanders · Powered by Genesis
%d