Happy #NationalPoetryDay in the UK❣️

I invite you to enjoy my poems and my story as a poet in my #blog. Do leave a comment, if you like a poem ❤️

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A bit late I know, but it's #NationalPoetryDay
The theme is 'Wonder', so here's my two-penn'orth.
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Still quite proud of this one. It was displayed outside the Royal Society of Geography :)

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Edna St. Vincent Millay by Arnold Genthe, c. 1917

Thomas Hardy said that her poetry was one of only two great things in the United States, the other being the skyscraper.

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For #NationalPoetryDay

Glen Baxter
New Yorker
April 27, 2020

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Charlie Hankin
New Yorker
November 13, 2023

"Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry."
- Jack Kerouac

📷 John Cohen, 1959

Jack is listening to himself on the radio.

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As we mark #NationalPoetryDay, we're looking forward to welcoming some of the finest poets in the land to our next festival - including former Children's Laureates, Michael Rosen and Michael Morpurgo, and local favourites, Chris Sewart and Charlotte Oliver.

Find out more: stage4beverley.com/line-up

"Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people & purple sunsets."
- Carl Sandburg

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I could go for some waffles...

HaibunOde To #NationalPoetryDay

A brave cloud challenges the dense entry into the ego. It gets lost in the mist of mourning occult mysteries and sinks into the realm of wondrous unicorns.

serrated poem –
a national pride of lions
moans its elegies

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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
- Thomas Gray

Portrait by John Giles Eccardt, 1747-8

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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
- Emily Dickinson

Martha Graham as Emily Dickinson in her ballet Letter to the World
📷 Barbara Morgan: "Swirl", 1940

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"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
- Carl Sandburg

📷 Yousuf Karsh, 1954

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As it’s #NationalPoetryDay here’s one of my favourites from my joke book

Beatnik Hugh Nanton Romney, aka Wavy Gravy, recites his poetry at the White Horse Tavern
📷 Burt Glinn, 1959

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"Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue."
- Charles Baudelaire

📷 Elliott Erwitt, Paris, 1952

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"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."
- Marianne Moore

📷 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1957

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Ok here we go for #NationalPoetryDay

Is your favourite Fido, the gnat, the angel/angle, gay days, or the corpse and bunion?

Is our best insult ‘funny beyond measure’ ‘incorrect in every way’ ‘we would rather not read a poem’ or ‘drizzle of words’?

meanwhile, this sonnet and all the code that surrounds it will soon see the light of day. 10 November. more on this soon #nationalpoetryday

"Roses are red, violets are blue, trump sucks."

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