Poem text: There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white, Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

“There Will Come Soft Rains (War Time)” by Sara Teasdale (1884 –
1933)

poets.org/poem/there-w... #TodaysPoem #NationalPoetryMonth #Spring #poem #poetry

Two Songs : Selected Poems 2000–2025 DescriptionRussell Thornton—a Canadian poet in the tradition of Irving Layton, Earle Birney, and Gwendolyn MacEwen—celebrates the fierce mysteries of life in these lyrics of love, loss, and metamorpho...

"At every intersection,
karate kick crosswalk buttons."

#SundaySentence (and bonus #TodaysPoem) The Man Who Sleeps in Cemeteries by Russell Thornton from Two Songs - Selected Poems 2000-2025 (2026 @harbourpublishing.bsky.social) harbourpublishing.com/collections/...

"Jane d'Eau" by Tanis MacDonald - League of Canadian Poets Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "Proem" by Ayomide Bayowa.

"She likes you with wet feet, with webbed feet, clart between
your toes."

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Jane d’Eau by Tanis MacDonald, forthcoming in Tall, Grass, Girl (2026 @bookhugpress.bsky.social) poets.ca/jane-deau-by...

Cicely Grace “Garden Party” Cicely Grace Cicely Grace (she/her) was a finalist for the 2025 Bronwen Wallace Award and the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Prism International, Yolk Literary, CV2, Pulp Literature, and elsewhere. She is pursuing an MA degree in English Literature at UBC and lives on the unceded territories of the […]

"that garden
party in which I lay long ago
in a sleeping bag beside my sister
and beside six or twenty sweet-pitched crickets"

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Garden Party by Cicely Grace (2026 @longconmagazine.bsky.social) longconmag.com/issue-2-4/ci...

Tanis MacDonald “Bog Girl” Tanis MacDonald Tanis MacDonald (she/they) is the author of Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female as well as seven other books of poetry and nonfiction, including the forthcoming…

"We guess, we choose,
we polish glass. We are girls,
we are gods: these are the clues."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Bog Girl by Tanis MacDonald (2026 @longconmagazine.bsky.social)

Mud Season We unstave the winter’s tangle.

"Last night I woke

to wild unfrozen prattle.
Rain on the roof—a foreign liquid tongue."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Mud Season by Tess Taylor (@tessathon.bsky.social) (2016) poets.org/poem/mud-sea...

Björk – Sun in My Mouth The ninth track of the highly acclaimed 2001 album, Vespertine, its lyrics were adapted from E. E. Cummings' poem, “I Will Wade Out” (1923). Her vocals are accompanied by a string

"I will take the sun in my mouth
And leap into the ripe air alive
With closed eyes"

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Sun in My Mouth by e.e. cummings, Guy Sigsworth & Björk (2001) genius.com/Bjork-sun-in... & www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhYZ...

My hand holding the poetry collection Startlement by Ada Limon (Milkweed Edition), with bookshelves in the background

My hand holding open the poetry collection Startlement by Ada Limon to show the beautiful green endpapers, with bookshelves in the background

My hand holding open the poetry collection Startlement by Ada Limon to part of the poem "The Spider Web", with my green shoes visible in the background

"I've got no compass, no lifeboat, no mast, sail or stern,
Only the small prayer that, tomorrow, the tide will turn."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
from The Spider Web by Ada Limón from Startlement (2025 @milkweededitions.bsky.social) milkweed.org/book/startle...

Two Songs : Selected Poems 2000–2025 DescriptionRussell Thornton—a Canadian poet in the tradition of Irving Layton, Earle Birney, and Gwendolyn MacEwen—celebrates the fierce mysteries of life in these lyrics of love, loss, and metamorpho...

#TodaysPoem 2/2
#poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Burrard Inlet Ships by Russell Thornton from Two Songs - Selected Poems 2000-2025 (2026 Harbour Publishing) harbourpublishing.com/collections/...
originally from Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain (2013 Harbour Publishing) harbourpublishing.com/collections/...

"All night, out on the water, the ships' horns send out
sound signals for the ships' arrivals and departures,
and all night, in inlet-filling fog, the ships' horns
send out long blast, long repeating notes - accompaniment
to the circuit of sleep in the houses along the shore."

#TodaysPoem 1/2

The Crocuses They heard the South wind sighing

"First to weave for Earth a chaplet
To crown her dear old head;
And to beauty the pathway
Where winter still did tread."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
The Crocuses by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1895) poets.org/poem/crocuses

Books of poetry perch in the bare branches of a weeping mulberry tree: Calling It Back to Me by Laurie D. Graham, Interposition by Kaie Kellough and Horses by Jake Skeets (McClelland & Stewart)

Poetry collection Calling It Back to Me by Laurie D. Graham perches in the bare branches of a weeping mulberry tree

Handwritten transcription of part of the poem A Good Closing by Laurie D. Graham from the poetry collection Calling It Back to Me, with a small piece of red brick holding the poetry book open and an uncapped black pen resting on the notebook page

"Pray for us in this hour of our

scraping by, in this hour of our
ice-cream cone in the car together."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
from A Good Closing by @lauriedgraham.bsky.social from Calling It Back to Me (2026 McClelland & Stewart) www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/807189...

#TodaysPoem 🕊️

A Counterfeit – a Plated Person –
I would not be –
Whatever strata of Iniquity
My Nature underlie –
Truth is good Health – and Safety, and the Sky.
How meagre, what an Exile – is a Lie,
And Vocal – when we die –

- Emily Dickinson

Mis Blandine of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, performing at Koerner Hall in Toronto

The Garifuna Collective of Saint Vincent, performing at Koerner Hall in Toronto

The Garifuna Collective of Saint Vincent, performing at Koerner Hall in Toronto

The Garifuna Collective of Saint Vincent, performing at Koerner Hall in Toronto

"Hamala (Let him fly)
Oundara wama kei ibirinei, inchuwamei lidoun ubóu (Let us come together as brothers, we will push him out into the world)"

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Hamala (Let Him Fly)
Emilio Nathaniel Thomas
The Garifuna Collective (2019) www.lyrics.com/lyric/388087...

Poems by B. Luke Wilson | ONLY POEMS Read B. Luke Wilson, featured poet published on ONLY POEMS. Explore their portfolio of poems, and get insight into their work via an extensive interview.

"You tell me there are twenty-seven
bones in our hands, and ten thousand signs
in sign language so each bone must know

hundreds of words."

#TodaysPoem #NationalPoetryMonth
All Your Light Caught in a Quiet Room
@BLukeWilson.bsky.social (2026 @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social) onlypoems.com/poems/b-luke...

James Mcconachie — Bad Lilies Three poems by James Mcconachie

"tonight roars the gale that gives no quarter,
come to me, here now, sit."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Peaches by @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social (2025 @badlilies.bsky.social) www.badlilies.uk/james-mccona...

Dentists and Farriers Drink Too Much – The Prose Poem Dentists and Farriers Drink Too Much by Christa Fairbrother

"The tropical fish swim in sleepy coral circles. My mind
knows the tank is here to calm me. My jaw disagrees."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Dentists and Farriers Drink Too Much by @christafairbrother.bsky.social (2024 @theprosepoem.bsky.social)

The novel The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Knopf Canada) sits on a purple desktop with a pink post-it note poking out of it. My green shoe and blue patterned sock are visible next to the table.

"You who care for the faceless
I who have lost my face
Bat grazes the moon

At night she woke. There was a bat in her room."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
from The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (2025 Knopf Canada) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lon...

E.B White: Song of the Queen Bee

"I'm sorry for creatures who cannot pair
On a gorgeous day in the upper air"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Song of the Queen Bee by E.B. White (1945 The @NewYorker) www.badbeekeeping.com/ebwhite.htm

School Prayer: Diane Ackerman’s Poetic Invitation to Attentive Presence as a Means of Transcendence and Secular Spirituality A hymn to the numinous splendor of nature.

"I will honor all life

—wherever and in whatever form
it may dwell—on Earth my home,
and in the mansions of the stars."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
School Prayer by Diane Ackerman from I Praise My Destroyer (2000 Deckle Edge) www.themarginalian.org/2017/06/29/s...

"for a moment
she doesn’t think
she can say goodbye
doesn’t think she can
go forward
how we miss
the familiar"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Not made of rib, but ocean by @amandaearl.bsky.social (2026 League of @canadianpoets.bsky.social) poets.ca/not-made-of-...

NICOLA VULPE – CAROUSEL

"So for today,
so until further notice
I’m not answering, not picking up."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
The Cockroach by @nicolavulpe.bsky.social (2023 Carousel Magazine) carouselmagazine.ca/c50-vulpe/

NewPoetry Stuart Ross

"One pill makes you larger
than anxiety, another smaller
than shame can find."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Provisions by Tolu Oloruntoba (@tolu.ca) (2026 Newpoetry.ca) newpoetry.ca/2026/03/20/p...

Their Second Adventure by Renée Sarojini Saklikar - League of Canadian Poets

"that
black book, unlined, cream pages, a few marks
left open with a felt pen inside"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Their Second Adventure by Renée Sarojini Saklikar (@reneesarojini.bsky.social) from Bramah and the Beggar Boy (2021 @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social) poets.ca/their-second...

Poem of the week: To a Sparrow by Francis Ledwidge This brightly observed study of a ‘sweetly impudent’ bird carries with it a distinct political edge

"But for all your faults I love you,
For you linger with us still,
Though the wintry winds reprove you
And the snow is on the hill."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
To a Sparrow by Francis Ledwidge (1916) www.theguardian.com/books/2023/a...