Incongruent blossoms—
abstract bouquet of
unconditional love
#Haiku
#InternationalPoetryDay
#IWentOutside
My kids picked me flowers! A dandelion, a buttercup, something white I don’t know, and what looked like a cherry blossom
#MusicChallenge
#WhoDidntISee
Post 5 artists that you did see live and 1 that you didn't & let anyone guess which is the fib~
Bob Dylan
Sade
INXS
Hozier
Lloyd Cole
Jason Isbell
Some of my favorite #PoetsofMusic on #InternationalPoetryDay
Today is #InternationalPoetryDay! 🖌️ Take a moment to appreciate the sparkle and the calligraphy of this four-fold screen of verses from the Wakan rōeishū by Konoe Nobutada, c. 17th century! ✨ Held by the National Museum of Asian Art: asia.si.edu/explore-art-...
What a line-up of readers for #Moth launch 🚀 readers on #internationalpoetryday
Huge thanks to @carolebromley.bsky.social @taniahershman.bsky.social @bethosmond.bsky.social @sarahraybould.bsky.social @rfredekenter.bsky.social
@paulwritespoems.bsky.social @the-ethelzine.bsky.social for saying YES 🙌
Hey folks! The launch 🚀 night for my debut #Moth mini-book with @the-ethelzine.bsky.social is go!
Sunday 19th April, 19.30 GMT on-line, with guest readers & Ethel founder Sara Lefsyk!
Thank you to @paulwritespoems.bsky.social for helping me set this up!
#poetrycommunity
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Book cover: A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry (English & American), edited with an introduction by Oscar Williams, and published in 1947.
For international poetry day, how about sharing memories of the first poetry books we ever bought?
This was mine. Bought when I was 18. It lived up to its name, introducing me to plenty of poets no one had ever told me about.
#InternationalPoetryDay #poetry
; i write, because the urge to create become stronger than urges to self-destruct. my body no longer a canvas etched with silent screams; my pain bleeds as ink.
i write, therefore i am; therefore i exist; therefore i survive.
#InternationalPoetryDay #micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky
Que a poesia nos agarre pelas entranhas, todos os dias do ano - incluindo no seu. #diamundialdapoesia #worldpoetryday #InternationalPoetryDay
#Internationalpoetryday Thank you to all the #poets , thank you for dealing with our paper hearts with such care.
You move, comfort and inspire.
Keep on writing on 🫶
On #InternationalPoetryDay, I’m proud to once again share my latest poem, “Here We Will Stay”—a tribute to resilience + chosen family.
Support living poets. Buy their books.
Pick up my latest collection, “Love(ly) Child.”
#EmanuelXavier #LoveLyChild #PoetryLives
"I was there at the Prince of Wales, on the last night/ when the lunatics came in and through hay bales at midnight "
Happy #internationalpoetryday !
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@julesvipaldo.bsky.social
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Coucou ami poète 👋🤗
On #InternationalPoetryDay I thought I’d share sone of the poetry books I’m reading at the moment
@parthianbooks.bsky.social
@4thestatebooks.bsky.social
@raehowells.bsky.social
@natholborow.bsky.social
#CalebFemi
Today is #InternationalPoetryDay! 🖌️ Take a moment to appreciate this poem written on shikishi, which is attributed to Emperor Go-Yōzei from the 16th/17th century. 🗾 Held by Harvard Art Museums: harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...
Explore our World Poetry collection this #InternationalPoetryDay
These poems showcase incredible poetic talent from diverse international backgrounds—talent that the Poetry Archive is proud to preserve.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
...
I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
- Sylvia Plath
#BookSky
#InternationalPoetryDay
...
don’t be dull and boring and pretentious,
don’t be consumed with selflove.
the libraries of the world have yawned themselves to sleep over your kind.
don’t add to that.
don’t do it.
unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket ...
-Charles Bukowski
#BookSky
#InternationalPoetryDay
in spite of everything
which breathes and moves, since Doom
(with white longest hands
neatening each crease)
will smooth entirely our minds
-before leaving my room
i turn, and (stooping
through the morning)kiss
this pillow, dear
where our heads lived and were.
e.e.cummings
#InternationalPoetryDay
Try to praise the mutilated world.
Remember June’s long days,
and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew.
The nettles that methodically overgrow
the abandoned homesteads of exiles.
You must praise the mutilated world.
Adam Zagajewski
d. 21.03.2021
#InternationalPoetryDay
O crap -
It is #InternationalPoetryDay and I couldn't write poetry
Because I had to work for someone else
![[Illustration: Climate : rain (France, Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, NAL 1673 f.95v)]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:blghsmic3py2uda37qcbt4rq/bafkreibktfjhwnh6rp2krkgmqll7pmr4z36zoybhd2orl4pfuujqg6xv3e)
[Illustration: Climate : rain (France, Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, NAL 1673 f.95v)]
Happy #InternationalPoetryDay and the official start of #Spring in the Northern Hemisphere! To celebrate, how about some 13th C. Anglo-Norman verse inspired by Spring: ⬇️
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Perhaps on this #InternationalPoetryDay you’d like to join Matsuo Bashō in enjoying some mochi? 🥢 See this late Edo painting of a mortar and pestle with a poem by Bashō reflecting on the sound of mochi and the dawn moon. jmapps.ne.jp/apmoa/det.ht...
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Sabers are red
Sabers are blue
Han shot first
Pew Pew Pew Pew
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"[...] a parachute slung between an angel
and an urn afforded shelter for newcomers."
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A great note to end #internationalpoetryday celebrations: "Lines for Translation into Any Language" by James Fenton:
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