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@johnlooker.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 5:45 PM

It’s definitely been our day today. In retirement, my wife and I routinely share a couple of poems with our morning coffee.

And today is #nationalpoetryday in Britain, #internationalcoffeeday and #internationalolderpersons day. Just made for us. I suppose tomorrow will be another day.

@momabfing.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 5:41 PM

On #NationalPoetryDay we thought we'd share this beautiful poem by Jessica Starr. At our workshop in May, it was chosen as something that we felt represented MoMa in some way by 2 of our BFCs in an icebreaker activity. Thanks to Jess for giving us permission to share it!
#motherhood
#mothertomother

@kerrydexter.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 5:39 PM

For your #NationalPoetryDay reading and listening 🎶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📖
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@ginorgym.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 5:35 PM

A bit of Muir for #nationalpoetryday

#edwinmuir
#scottishliterature

@geriwithetc.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 5:30 PM

"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry."

From: A Poetry Handbook

~Mary Jane Oliver #NationalPoetryDay

@agittner.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 5:29 PM

For #nationalpoetryday I wrote this in response to a poem by @johndredge.bsky.social . @imcmillan.bsky.social suggested a slight edit.

Wonder no more

Light waves of all colours from our sun
End their cosmic journey scattered
by myriad mini-glitterball molecules
in our atmosphere
Blue light is scattered more
Red and yellow less
Look up the sky is blue
Only at sunset do the red and yellows make their mark
These rays, working through more of the atmosphere,
to colour our evening sky

Ancient bacteria in their search for usable energy
Turned to sunlight.
Primitive proteins found that absorbing blue and red light worked best
To strip hydrogen from water.
Change by tiny change chlorophyll evolved,
bacteria became plants became trees
the sun’s unabsorbed green light reflected from leaves
Look up trees are green

Our massive sun draws towards it
From the infinities of space countless hydrogen atoms
In the crucible of its gravity, they are forced together to make helium
No laughing matter atomic fusion
Look up we feel the emitted heat

The sun will outlast us, our children and grandchildren
Even our grandchildren’s grandchildren
But at some point, the hydrogen fuel will run out
Sulking the sun will swell,
Cool from white hot to merely red hot
A red giant, swallowing our planet
Eventually in an eye wateringly bright explosion
It will collapse into itself by the hubris of its own gravity
Until it sees out the universe as a tiny cool white dwarf.

Some might rather wonder
and continue to ponder
on the beauty of our planet
I prefer to know and tell
The wonder is that we do know
And can even tell what happened billions of years in the past
And can tell what will happen billions of years into the future.
Wonderful

@samanthaterrell.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 5:24 PM

Humble thanks to Jane Cornwell @janes-studio.bsky.social for the many wonderful collaborations...and for this celebratory post! Happy National (UK) Poetry Day! 🎊

#nationalpoetryday
#poetrylovers
#poetrycommunity
#internationalcommunity

@radiator9987.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 5:24 PM

It is #NationalPoetryDay, support your local working #poet @kevinhogan.bsky.social and subscribe over on youtube, always putting new stuff up #poetry #poetrysky

www.youtube.com/@inertiasatori

Monitor with poem on desk with mug (krewe of degenerate), open notebook and pen, wallet, cash, cigarettes

@samanthaasumadu.substack.com Oct 1, 2026, 5:23 PM

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966)
Translated by Judith Hemschemeyer
#NationalPoetryDay

@samanthaasumadu.substack.com Oct 1, 2026, 5:23 PM

When I Die by Nikki Giovanni
#NationalPoetryDay

@conflicttextiles.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 5:08 PM

Today #nationalpoetryday we launched Text and Textile: A tribute to John Springhill exhibition @ulsteruni.bsky.social Coleraine campus Library. Photo: Malachy O'Neil, Sarah O'Deorain, Lorna Gough, Roberta Bacic, Niamh McNally. cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...

@sashasimic.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 5:06 PM

Brecht to Peter Lorre #NationalPoetryDay2026 #NationalPoetryDay

@laurette1.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 4:57 PM

An October photo of Grasmere for
#NationalPoetryDay
“The trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors the sky.”
From W B Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole
#October
#LakeDistrict
#Autumn
#Fall
#Landscape
#Photography
#Reflections

@joshuaseigal.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 4:45 PM

Fancy a FREE book for #NationalPoetryDay? Well then, my pamphlet 'The Relationship Expert' is the best book I've written so far, IMO. Download here: archive.org/download/the...

@lifelovelily22.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 4:41 PM

My poem for #nationalpoetryday

The theme is Wonder.

#poetry #poems

@welbeckps.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 4:33 PM

This year, #NationalPoetryDay fell on the same day as Year 4K’s Stone Age experience day. So, to mark both occasions, we took turns reading Stone Age poems aloud to the rest of the class! #EnglishatWelbeck #OracyatWelbeck

@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 4:27 PM

#peace #ceasefire #gaza #GazaGenocide‌ #palestine #nationalpoetryday