#poem

[grendel-menz]

my farm girl blues

[todayontumblr]

Tuesday March 21.

World Poetry Day.

Today is a celebration—but perhaps, like all celebrations, just what we are commemorating is something that we must treasure each and every day. Poetry, some might say, is just that: the treasure that artists mine from the sham and drudgery of day-to-day life. For the poet, their art is found not by searching for the exotic, mysterious, glamourous, or seductive, but by what they find before them. What is mundane and routine is as much material to be mined as life's intensities or spectacles. For the poet, the world really is their oyster. And for the rest of us, the work they produce is that very pearl. And every shade of experience, whether joy, grief, banality, intrigue, and beauty, are encapsulated in words, spaces, silence, images, and form. Whether by skill, or by chance, no one really knows, but perhaps the mess and the mystery are one and the same as its profundity. With that in mind, let's celebrate a good thing. And a good thing that is ours each and every day. It's #world poetry day.

With that in mind, we invite you to mark the day here on Tumblr. After all, there is simply no better community of poets and artists who make up this creative sphere, and the evergreen world of all things poetry is, well, your world. 

And when all is said and done, you better get writing x

[bluryyyblu]

[flowerytale]

Ada Limón, from “The Good Fight”, Bright Dead Things

[thoughtkick]

I'm not afraid to love, I'm afraid of not being loved back.

Unknown

[thehopefulquotes]

I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do. I learned to suspect that everyone is capable of living a lie. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

Lynn Barber

[perfectquote]

You can be a good person with a kind heart, and still say no.

d.k.

[quotefeeling]

If it’s still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

Paulo Coelho

[deadlypoetacademia]

Nothing can beat the feel after completing a good book. That little silence, that little smile, that little heartbeat, that little moment

[geryone]

Trace Evidence, Charif Shanahan

[brok3np4radise]

You cannot make everyone think and feel as deeply as you do. This is your tragedy … because you understand them, and they do not understand you.

Daniel Saint

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“You can say anything and I will not abandon you.”

[heavyrain-dc]

Promise me not to hide yourself when you're in pain, it's unfair that we laughed together but you cried alone

Unknown

[perfeqt]

If it’s still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

Paulo Coelho

[thoughtkick]

Your heart knows things that your mind can’t explain.

Unknown