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April is National Poetry Month, a time when we celebrate poetry and recognize how it has shaped American culture. This year, KUT is participating in National Poetry Month by sharing poems written by students in the Blank Page creative writing programs at Kealing and Fulmore Middle Schools and the Writers' Workshop at Rawson Saunders School. You can read the and listen to the poems here, and you can also listen to the poems read on KUT 90.5 FM throughout the month of April.

Black and White

The night is coming

creeping, crawling, towering over

as the day is unbecoming.

Crickets buzzing,

fireflies bursting out to hover.

The night is coming.

Purple, yellow, orange, sinking,

the glowing sphere falling lower

as the day is unbecoming.

Pitch black flying,

flurrying in this dark hour .

The night is coming.

The cold is numbing,

the light settling below the controller

as the day is unbecoming.

Time is slowing,

the shadows gaining their composure.

The night is coming

as the day is unbecoming.

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