For #WorldPoetryDay yesterday @SAPIENS_org reposted my prize-winning 2020 poem The Fish Trap, about continuity and change in the Amazon, with a shout out to William Carlos Williams
For #WorldPoetryDay yesterday @SAPIENS_org reposted my prize-winning 2020 poem The Fish Trap, about continuity and change in the Amazon, with a shout out to William Carlos Williams
Uppmärksammar Världpoesidagen genom att återposta min "Kapitalets moment 22".
https://ainali.com/2025/kapitalets-moment-22/
#poesi
#WorldPoetryDay
#WritersCoffeeClub 21. Share your most poetic line.
I'm either writing actual poems or prose, so here's a poem.
In the dark of night
Deep within a maze
A void where truth dies
And all seems lost
A flicker
A glimmer
Spark of what could be
If one seizes a moral compass
And navigates to eternity
Speaks out against the lies
Rallying beneath the stars
To prove a world that was stolen
Can still be ours
For #WorldPoetryDay, Wendy Cope’s heartbreakingly earnest all-timer, “The Orange”
Celebrate World
Poetry Day. Have you written a poem about
dance?Submit it to the Marblehead School of Ballet
and North Shore Civic Ballet’s contest!
Eligibility: Open to the public | All Ages
Theme: Steps to My Soul: How Dance Transforms Me
Selected poems will be awarded prizes and an opportunity to read their selected poems at a performance.
Deadline: April 5, 2025
Find more details in this article: https://marbleheadweeklynews.com/school-of-ballet-opens-applications/
In honor of #WorldPoetryDay, here is one of my faves from 2023.
keep silent . .
the most beautiful voice ,
is the talk of your hand
on the table.
قليل من الصمت . . ياجاهلة
فأجمل من كل هذا الحديث
حديث يديك
على الطاولة
(The talk of her hands, Arabian love poems)
Nizar Qabbani
(21 Mar.1923-1998)
#poetry #worldpoetryday
I found him wandering on the hill
one hot blue afternoon.
He looked as skinny as a nail,
as pale-skinned as the moon…
—Don Paterson, “The Poetry”
published in RAIN (Faber, 2009)
Rain lost it's sound
But retained all it's wet
Half in
Half out
The enormity implied
Perception perceived
After falling for a bluff
Hit home
Like a brick
To my pointy little head
Wildings, every year on the 21st of March, #WorldPoetryDay celebrates one of humanity's most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity.
What #metal #band has your favourite #lyrics that's pure poetry you could enjoy even without the #music?
It's #WorldPoetryDay. What poem would you recommend that we read? Mine is Allen Ginsberg's, "A Supermarket in California." Here's a few lines & a link to the whole poem:
I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47660/a-supermarket-in-california
It's #WorldPoetryDay. What poem would you recommend that we read? Mine is Allen Ginsberg's, "A Supermarket in California." Here's a few lines & a link to the whole poem:
I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47660/a-supermarket-in-california
How to celebrate World Poetry Day today? Hey, you could read some poetry!
An excerpt from "Grace" by James Crews:
Lately, I think it’s grace that makes us
push up through the soil of our lives
like the blades of a daffodil that may
take weeks to bloom, but at least
senses that first moment of softening
warmth in the earth, and slices through
old leaves to meet it. What a waste
a closed heart is,
https://mailchi.mp/5c6acdfb2063/weekly-pause-grace-makes-us?e=4660b7819e.
When I am reading
the literature of my people
I think,
We have no Homer
no poet as great as that,
at all as great as that,
in that way
in that marvellous way…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “When I am Reading”
Published in New Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2011)
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857549607
In celebration of #WorldPoetryDay, here I am lending my breath to poems that are dear to me,
"[Because] If society abolishes #poetry it commits #spiritual suicide.” —Octavio Paz
Happy #WorldPoetryDay! "Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse" includes poems by Marge Piercy, Kim Addonizio...and my very own "Hex on my Ex!"
It's #WorldPoetryDay. Most of our clients write prose, but Oluremi Faye-Ademola is a notable exception.
We helped her publish Phase of a Monster and Wild Roses last year. The ebook is just £2.99
https://books2read.com/u/m2JB9o
Poets need not be garlanded;
the poet’s head
should be innocent of the leaves of the sweet bay tree,
twisted. All honour goes to poetry…
—Liz Lochhead, “Poets Need Not”
published in A HANDSEL: New and Collected Poems (Birlinn, 2023)
For #WorldPoetryDay a winged poem by a fine poet #EDWatson
“For the first time ever, I hear the adhan
splitting darkness from dawn, driving doves
and people from their dreams. White feathers
at our feet: the cleanest things I’ve ever seen.”
https://youtube.com/shorts/54xQmW-hnAU?si=VIjAfmsY9ecvaP4_ #poetry
For #worldpoetryday this is from Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘Tea’. Dominant Industry’s Earl Grey Tea is possibly my favourite orange ink. It’s a beautiful shader.
“I like pouring your tea, lifting
the heavy pot, and tipping it up,
so the fragrant liquid streams in your china cup”