#world poetry day

[typewriter-worries]

It's world poetry day so here are some (more) of my favorite poems:

What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade by Brad Aaron Modlin

All Trains Are Going Local by Timothy Liu

Rural Boys Watch the Apocalypse by Keaton St. James (@boykeats)

HOPE YOU’RE WELL. PLEASE DON’T READ THIS. by Lev St. Valentine (@dogrotpdf)

Time of Love by Claribel Alegría

Every Job Has a First Day by Rebecca Gayle Howell

ALL THAT WANTING, RIGHT? by Devin Kelly

Reading by A.R. Ammons

things i want to ask you by Helga Floros

Night Bird by Danusha Laméris

Prayer for Werewolves by Stephanie Burt

The Two Times I Loved You the Most In a Car by Dorothea Grossman

The Yearner by Rachel Long

If I Had Three Lives by Sarah Russell

I Dream on a Crowded Subway Train with My Eyes Open But My Body Swaying by Chen Chen

We Have Not Long to Love by Tennessee Williams

Jesus at the Gay Bar by Jay Hulme

Cracks by Dieu Dinh

and here's part one <3

[tswiftupdatess]

'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT' popup on Spotify comes in different colors!

[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

[ozgur-ce]

Bugün 21 Mart birçok önemli günün birleşimi olmuş sanırım, Ekinoks mesela, ayrıca Nevruz, Down Sendromlular günü ve Allah rahmet eylesin Halk şairimiz Aşık Veysel'in ölüm yıldönümü...

Ben bilmediğiniz bir şey daha ekleyeyim dedim buna 21 Mart Dünya Şiir Günü'ymüş, bu kadar şiir kullanıyorum kutlamasam olmazdı 🎉🎊🎈🥳

Hadi sen de videoyu durdur, seçtiğimiz şiirlerden hangisi senin için öğren 👇

💭 Sen de #DünyaŞiirGünü’nü kutlamak için ne çıktığını ya da sevdiğin bir şiir dizesini yorumlara yazabilirsin 🥰✍️🫶

Ekran görüntüsü alıp yorum yapmayanlara ceza vercem tek ayak üstü tahtanın önünde 😜🤣🤣🤣

[nobrashfestivity]

[burningvelvet]

"Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."

— An excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley's A Defence of Poetry (1821) in honor of World Poetry Day

[drearydaffodil]

It just seems a most appropriate thing

That world poetry day is in the spring

The trees are budding, the bright flowers bloom

We find escape from unending gloom

The frosts are all waning, the days grow long

The endless heavens are now thick with song

We're storing our sweaters, going for walks

Watching the daffodils sprout from their stalks

Something like hope is springing from the ground

Laughter lilts softly, such a welcome sound

Soon we'll see groundhogs emerging with glee

From winter's cold grip we will be set free

Days growing warmer, shadows disappear

The taste of joy becoming stronger than fear

[brideormonster]

Happy World Poetry Day! 🪶✍🏻

[lionofchaeronea]

For World Poetry Day

LOGOS

In the beginning were the words.

Fast like rivers, slow like honey.

Sharp like quills, soft like wool.

For every picture a thousand words,

speaking the world and all its creatures.

Where are we born? A sea of words.

Where do we dance? A floor of words.

What is death? A return to words.

And heaven a tale that, like a moth,

flits about from lip to lip,

chasing the lamp of eternity.

[robertjw4688]

Happy World Poetry Day!

A porch light humming

in spite of the

world's weeping; what

poetry means to me.

Robert J. W.

[whencyclopedia]

HAPPY World Poetry Day!

[typewriter-worries]

It's world poetry day so here are some of my favorite poems:

Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

Night Walk by Franz Wright

Crossword by Lloyd Schwartz

The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert

Love Train by Tomás Q. Morín

Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts by Mark Halliday

Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo

in another string of the multiverse, perhaps by Michaella Batten

acknowledgments by Danez Smith

Death Wish by Josh Alex Baker

San Francisco by Richard Brautigan

How to Watch Your Brother Die by Michael Lassell

You Are the Penultimate Love of My Life by Rebecca Hazelton

On Political(ized) Life by Kanika Lawton

All the Dead Boys Look Like Me by Christopher Soto

It Was the Animals by Natalie Diaz

In Time by W.S. Merwin

It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off by Hanif Abdurraqib

Dear Life by Maya C. Popa

I Could Touch It by Ellen Bass

To The Young Who Want To Die by Gwendolyn Brooks

Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds by Ada Limón

[dyingbelladonna]

Dead Poets Society (1989).

[apnaran]

World Poetry Day: Celebrating the Power of Words

World Poetry Day : Poetry is one of the most ancient forms of creative expression, dating back to the earliest civilizations. Over the centuries, poetry has been used to convey emotions, tell stories, and offer commentary on the world around us. Today, poetry remains an important art form, with poets from around the world continuing to inspire and challenge us with their words. World Poetry Day…

[vishal1415]

World Poetry Day is celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO in 1999, "with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard".