@davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.socialWorld Teachers Day - John Agard challenges a education system teaching Imperial/Colonial history
History isn't neutral, what's taught shapes who we believe ourselves to be
It's not just about historical omissions, it is the consequences of those omissions
@poetry.foundationYou can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write.
—W. S. Merwin with the #PoemOfTheDay on World Teachers' Day. 🍎 https://bit.ly/2W4vpTe
@uniquelyartsy.bsky.social"They played our song, and I had to listen to it without you."
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@jblewis.bsky.social
@poetry.foundationIf you sing a song enough,
it can go to your head that way.
–Carole Boston Weatherford with the #PoemOfTheDay to start Banned Books Week.
The December issue of POETRY will include a folio curated by her featuring poets whose work has been banned or challenged. đź“š
https://bit.ly/4hwUHVH
@mindheartinsoul.bsky.social
@mindheartinsoul.bsky.social@davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.socialHeaney’s re-framing of the biblical story is interesting alone, shifting focus to the people who brought the man to be healed
But this was written following a stoke he suffered in 2006 & could also be read as tribute to those who supported his own recovery
@rahlooho.bsky.socialMy Grandmother’s Love Letters by Hart Crane | Poems Rethabile Likes po-re-li.blogspot.com/2026/09/my-g...
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@jblewis.bsky.social
@poetry.foundationI only have a measly ant
To think with today.
Others have pictures of saints,
Others have clouds in the sky.
—Charles Simic with the #PoemOfTheDay https://bit.ly/46C0Smk
@davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.socialI love how poetry can say so much with a few words.
Lemn does this brilliantly, & not just in this poem
Here we have how love shapes an individual
Then, in the conditional 2nd stanza, the unknown. An interruption - how would we be if this love was lost?
@rahlooho.bsky.socialDecember by Sihle Ntuli | Poems Rethabile Likes po-re-li.blogspot.com/2026/10/2026...
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@uniquelyartsy.bsky.social"It's like I get a natural high from everything you do"
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@jblewis.bsky.social
@poetry.foundation"Landscape" by Concha MĂ©ndez, translated by Meg Carter.
Read this poem from the October issue of POETRY in Spanish: https://bit.ly/4xWLVGF
#PoemOfTheDay
@davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.socialToday is International Day of Non Violence
Images grounded in nature & cosmology give 1956 anti-apartheid march an elemental feel
The march ended with the 30 minutes silence
70 years later the struggle is not over - “And who will join this standing up”
@rahlooho.bsky.socialAnguish Longer Than Sorrow by Keorapetse Kgositsile | Poems Rethabile Likes po-re-li.blogspot.com/2026/09/angu...
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