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

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/world-poetry-day-fish-trap/

Ten of my favourite poems in honour of World Poetry Day yesterday.

#Poetry #Poems #Literature #WorldPoetryDay

https://purpleprosearchive.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/ten-favourite-poems-for-world-poetry-day/

Uppmärksammar Världpoesidagen genom att återposta min "Kapitalets moment 22".
https://ainali.com/2025/kapitalets-moment-22/
#poesi
#WorldPoetryDay

begin with dream
with the world within the world
with the world behind the world
with the world beyond the world
everything begins there

- from Richard Skelton's epic Upper Paleolithic poem "Stranger in the Mask of a Deer" (Penned in the Margins, 2021) for today's #WorldPoetryDay.

https://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2021/06/stranger-in-the-mask-of-a-deer

"Ich ging im Walde so für mich hin,
und nichts zu suchen, das war mein Sinn.

Im Schatten sah ich ein Blümchen steh'n,
wie Sterne leuchtend, wie Äuglein schön.

Ich wollt' es brechen, da sagt' es fein:
Soll ich zum Welken gebrochen sein?

Ich grub's mit allen den Würzlein aus,
zum Garten trug ich's, am hübschen Haus,

Und pflanzt es wieder am stillen Ort;
Nun zweigt es immer und blüht so fort."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#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

Celebrate the Power of Words #WorldPoetryDay @TheTrueOGReport >< #Poetry @russellrope @ https://russellrope.com/tag/poetry

‘Go light a candle in your darkest room.
If you can’t find the candle, find the room.
If you can’t find the room, then the candle.
If you go, you know, one of them will come.'

#WorldPoetryDay #poetry

https://rattle.com/instructions-for-assembling-the-miracle-by-peter-cooley/

It's #worldpoetryday. Do not be ashamed by Wendell Berry https://sacompassion.net/poem-do-not-be-ashamed-by-wendell-berry/

For #WorldPoetryDay, Wendy Cope’s heartbreakingly earnest all-timer, “The Orange”

For #WorldPoetryDay here's Children's Song by R.S. Thomas

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.

https://arisummerland.ghost.io/world-poetry-day/

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

What would #WorldPoetryDay be without the wisdom and words of Maya Angelou and James Baldwin? In 1975, the two sat down to speak about all things life and love.

Courtesy of Thirteen WNET: https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-48sbchq4

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)

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571255580-rain/

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?