"We’ll have to wait until the next time
an angel comes rapping at the door
to rejoice docently."
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Honestly, by John Ashbery (2015 @POETSorg.bsky.social)
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"write down everything you said to the bird
what you said about its feet, its belly, its soft red feathers
that is the beginning of the newest thing"
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
there is a deer grazing too close to highway 3
@SueGoyette.bsky.social 2026 www.instagram.com/p/DXZYDk5jic8/
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Five poems Salem Paige same fish, bigger pond I've grown! I've grown! and how terrifying and how exciting how open the world is to me now, how limitless, how without limit, how far the horizon stretches now that I know what lays beyond - and I also don't, and how exhilarating that is, the not knowing. the wanting to know. the needing it, needing to stretch my fins and acclimate to this new pond or even swim to a bigger one, now that I know how limitless I have grown to be.
#TodaysPoem by Salem Paige from Touch the Donkey, issue 49. a wild feral issue of distinct voices.
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"The stage is flat, and everything worth watching
will happen where Zamboni spreads the world
to all four corners of its map."
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Zamboni by Richard Harrison from 25: Hockey Poems (2019 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social) bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/25-...
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"But regret is not a skill
that I can teach, but theirs to learn
like whistling, or grief."
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
In the Wild by Jennifer Bowering Delisle (@jenbdelisle.bsky.social) (2025 League of @CanadianPoets.bsky.social) poets.ca/in-the-wild-...
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'What Can You See?'
Holly Magill
The question could be practical, well-intentioned,
but it pins me down completely.
My answer confuses her:
'What can you see?'
'Er, normal, I guess..!' I shrug: "Yeah, me too!
Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf & Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches)
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Poetry collection Nighthawks by Lisa Martin (University of Alberta Press) sits on a dining room table with an all-dressed bagel and cup of coffee
Handwritten transcription of the poem "Poem at the Closing of a Door" by Lisa Martin from the poetry collection Nighthawks, with plate with bagel seeds on it
Close-up of handwritten transcription of the poem "Poem at the Closing of a Door" by Lisa Martin from the poetry collection Nighthawks
"So, change arrives,
milliseconds at a time. Once
we notice, a door slams behind."
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Poem at the Closing of a Door by Lisa Martin from Nighthawks (2026 @ualbertapress.bsky.social) ualbertapress.ca/978177212855...
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"And yet all this comes down when the job’s done
Showing off walls of sure and solid stone."
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney from Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996 (1998 @fsgbooks.bsky.social) poets.org/poem/scaffol...
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"Because as long as there are words on a page, there is still hope for an unfinished exit to find its proper
ending."
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Unfinished Exit by Claudia Wysocky (2025 @midlvlmag.bsky.social) midlvlmag.com/claudia-wyso...
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Poetry collection The Tinder Sonnets by Jennifer LoveGrove (Bookhug Press), with cover with intriguing imagery, sits on a mottled countertop
Poetry collection The Tinder Sonnets by Jennifer LoveGrove, open to the poem "T- helps me stack the firewood", with colourful Bookhug Press bookmark on the opposite page
"Nearby poplar rattle, either
in rapport or warning. Pluck the smallest
for kindling; the largest, caution the pitch."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
T- helps me stack the firewood by @JenniferLoveGrove.bsky.social from The Tinder Sonnets (2026 @BookhugPress.bsky.social) bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/...
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"We were reading our books upside down
and looked out of our dirty jackets’ eye holes."
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
[untitled] by Olivia Cronk (2026 Sunday Prompt via @neonpajamas.bsky.social)
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In #TodaysPoem I really like how the 2nd half of this #palindrome makes me hopeful. Also, I feel that since the poem's publication things have started to change:
"I refuse to believe that I am part of a lost generation"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z92H...
#poem-a-day
#videopoetry
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My handwritten version of Gary Barwin's poem AFTER, sitting on the laptop keyboard, with the Facebook version on the screen
"I
put
on my shoes
and stand just
above
the earth"
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
AFTER by @GaryBarwin.bsky.social (2026) www.facebook.com/moribund.fac...
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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
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"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/...
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"She likes you with wet feet, with webbed feet, clart between
your toes."
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Jane d’Eau by Tanis MacDonald, forthcoming in Tall, Grass, Girl (2026 @bookhugpress.bsky.social) poets.ca/jane-deau-by...
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"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...
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"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)
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"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...
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"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...
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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...
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#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/...
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"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
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"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
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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...
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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
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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...
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"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...
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"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...
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"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)
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