Hi everyone, it's Anne.

Hard days for a lot of us, I know.

So one thing I noticed this week is how many people are turning to poetry.

I remember it was the same after 9-11.

Somehow when the world seems broken, when there aren't words to express what you feel, poetry is often the one

kind of language that helps. That's the language of the soul. So today we're bringing you

an hour on the poems we need now.

Wisconsin Public Radio.

Alone all alone. Nobody but nobody can make it out here. Alone. Twelve simple words from the close of Maya Angelou's poem alone, but they capture what so many of us are feeling right now

as we sit quietly in our apartments, our houses, our hospital beds.

It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne's Train Champs.

Poetry can do that. Capture the moment.

Find words for what seems impossible to express.

Maybe that's one reason poetry is traveling the world right now.

I could give you dozens of examples, but here's one from my own

backyard. In Lake Mills, Wisconsin, a retired school teacher named Kitty O'Mara wrote a short

poem at lunch one day. She posted it to friends on Facebook, and a few days later, it was being shared by

Deepak Chopra, Oprah Winfrey, and a few million others.

So I called Kitty and asked if she'd read it for us.

Let's see.

Oddly enough, I don't have a framed copy next to me, but...

Hang on a second.

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