Look! It’s PoeMondaY again!

One of the things I was most blessed with during my post-secondary education was the opportunity to have some really amazing mentors. Each of them played a significant role in teaching, inspiring, shaping, and encouraging me in my writing and in my career path. Not too long ago, I was tickled to find that one of my mentors had been chosen for a very prestigious and well-deserved honor – inaugural poet for President Obama’s second inauguration. Richard Blanco‘s inauguration poem, “One Today,” is the first poem I teach in the poetry section of my composition and literature course, and I will be creating an in-depth Ed-Wed(nesday) post on this poem in the near future, but for today’s PoeMondaY post, I wanted to select a poem that I find to be heart-achingly beautiful. I have posted on the topic of marriage equality before. As someone who has many close friends and family members fighting for the right to marry their partners, it is a topic I am passionate about. Richard Blanco’s poem, “Until We Could,” expresses why in ways much more eloquent than I ever could. Let me know if you agree: