Welcome to our monthly Poets Anonymous!
On the 15th of each month, I’ll post part of a poem. If you have a blog, post a poem on yours and share your link in the comments. If you don’t have a blog, feel free to share part of a poem in the comments. Or, I encourage you to simply read a poem today.
The water is wide,
I can’t cross over,
And neither have I wings to fly.
Build me a boat
That can carry two
And both shall row, my love and I.
There is a ship
And she sails the sea.
She’s loaded deep,
As deep can be.
But not so deep
As the love I’m in,
I know not how I sink or swim.
James Taylor*
*Edited: I have memories of hearing this song sung by James Taylor, however it has a richer history, according to Wikipedia.
Share a favorite poem (or segment of one) in the comments!
Annie Rim 
“The Water Is Wide” (also called “O Waly, Waly”) is a folk song of Scottish origin, based on lyrics that partly date to the 1600s. (not original with James Taylor or any other 20th Century)
Nice! I wondered if James Taylor was the original author… I always associate his version to the song. Bea has a book of folk songs with it in there, though no author is given.
I leaned my back up against an oak.
Thinkin’ it was a trusty tree. But
first it bent and then it broke
just like my own false love to me.