@davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.socialI love the attention in Jackie Kay’s poem, if we look for stories in the landscape it will provide them – but not always the story we seek
Also, the idea of not looking hard for something but looking the other way - that thing that eludes us might find us when we least expect it
@davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.socialI wasn’t sure whether to post this yesterday for World Suicide Prevention Day
A conversation today with someone I know reminded me it can be hard to find the right words
If this poem encourages 1 person to check in, or to ask for help, then it may have done some good
@davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.socialI've been posting a daily poem for just over a year
In celebration I'm sharing the 10 most popular poems of the last 12 months
In 1st place we have Noor Hindi
‘Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words’ – Robert Frost
@davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.socialI've been posting a daily poem for just over a year
In celebration I'm sharing the 10 most popular poems of the last 12 months
In 2nd is Jay Hulme’s poem about grace & belonging, about being loved just as you are & accepting this truth
Conversion therapy - still legal in UK 😡
@davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.socialI've been posting a daily poem for just over a year
In celebration I'm sharing the 10 most popular poems of the last 12 months
In 3rd place is Gwendolyn Brooks. I love the lines breaks, the jazz back beat, the pure music of this poem
How it elevates the heartbreaking narrative
@davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.socialI've been posting a daily poem for just over a year
In celebration I'm sharing the 10 most popular poems of the last 12 months
In 4th – the question is not ‘is it better than Blake’s Tyger?’
But is it celebrating the escape of an incarcerated tiger, or a warning for us to run?
@davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.socialI've been posting a daily poem for just over a year
In celebration I'm sharing the 10 most popular poems of the last 12 months
6th – has echos of Niemöller’s poem ‘First They Came’
The 1st houses are already ashes. Many still think the wind is blowing in the opposite direction
@davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.socialI've been posting a daily poem for just over a year
In celebration I'm sharing the 10 most popular poems of the last 12 months
6th - poignant in the week we lost Wendell
It's easy to point fingers. It's also important to ask what's my culpability, either directly or by apathy