Be poetically inspired with Blinds.com as we celebrate National Poetry Month

In honor of Poem In Your Pocket Day, the Blinds.com team is waxing poetic as we share and celebrate our favorite poems and poets – whether they are lauded legends or in the office next door.

While our words may not all rhyme and our emails may not be in Haiku form, we're excited to explore the world of window-related poetry and beyond. Download our ‘Poem In Your Pocket’ booklet here!

Share your own poetry favorites online with us!

Windows and Curtains Playing

A Poem by: Patricia Belk

An architect designs a house with windows; the house soon becomes a home. The windows ask the curtains to come out to play with them. As the windows allow the breeze to blow, pass them. The curtains begin to flutter in the breeze as if to dance about the floor. The floor rises up to meet the curtains as if to act as a dance partner

The windows and curtains play well together, As the sun goes down to kiss the earth late in the evening. The moon rises up to take the night. The curtains rest a while until morning comes again.

As the blinds have rested all day, they come down to close off the world from the home. Once again allowing for quite until daybreak. As the window and curtains wait to dance again once more in the sunlight.

When I Become An Artist

A Poem by: Francie, 5th grade

When I become an artist
I will paint pictures of hot Houston summers
The days of construction and the banging
of a hammer when a house is being built on my street
The endless days of heat and people jumping
on the concrete without shoes
The different animals that creep and buzz at night
The people outside running on a cool morning and people walking their dogs
The birds chirping in the early morning and the sun
shining through the small cracks in the closed
window blinds when you wake up
The music of the ice cream truck—soft, loud, louder, soft again—
The rare dark, stormy afternoons
The cars driving by making a wooOOOSSsssh sound
The smell of not too much in the air