National Poetry Day

Jimm_Scope
Jimm_Scope Posts: 5,409 Scope Online Community Specialist
edited October 2023 in Coffee lounge
I know this is something that, for some of our members, is very close to their hearts. Today is National Poetry Day in the UK :) 

The Forward Arts Association set up National Poetry Day in 1994 to celebrate poetry and to spread it to a wider audience. I am sure many of us remember having to go through many poems in school for English, perhaps back then wondering why we were bothering with such passage. I know I now look back at those passages as an adult and really see the meaning behind them.

Ways to celebrate today are:

  • Read a poem of course!
  • Write a poem, share it here if you feel up to doing so!
  • Share with us your favourite poem

National Poetry Day selected a number of poems to showcase this year. I'll post one here for you all to read with me

On the Move Again from Somewhere by Michael Rosen

You know
You gotta go.
No time to grieve
You just gotta leave.

Get away from the pain
On the move again.

Take the train.
Catch a plane.

Make the trip
In a ship.

Take a hike.
Ride a bike.

Go by car.
Going far.

Use your feet
On the street.

Get stuck
In a truck.

Then you arrive.
And you’re alive.

You arrive.
You’re alive.

What you leave behind
Won’t leave your mind.

But home is where you find it.
Home is where you find it.
Home is where you find it.
Home is where you find it


I hope you all enjoy a poem today, do post below a favourite of yours, or write your own!

Comments

  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 5,409 Scope Online Community Specialist
    edited October 2023
    I see @Globster is a step ahead of me with his own poem today here! A lovely one about our current season :)

    A few other poems recently posted by a few other members of our community :) 
    I'll add any more I see that people write. If people wish their poem is removed please just let me know via messaging!

    Unimportant by MarieBarl
    CAN YOU WRITE A POEM by OneBigVoice
  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 5,409 Scope Online Community Specialist
    That's lovely and very seasonal @moonchild3! Thank you for posting that :) and welcome to the community!
  • marybottomley
    marybottomley Online Community Member Posts: 900 Empowering
    Jimm_Scope said:
    I know this is something that, for some of our members, is very close to their hearts. Today is National Poetry Day in the UK :) 

    The Forward Arts Association set up National Poetry Day in 1994 to celebrate poetry and to spread it to a wider audience. I am sure many of us remember having to go through many poems in school for English, perhaps back then wondering why we were bothering with such passage. I know I now look back at those passages as an adult and really see the meaning behind them.

    Ways to celebrate today are:

    • Read a poem of course!
    • Write a poem, share it here if you feel up to doing so!
    • Share with us your favourite poem

    National Poetry Day selected a number of poems to showcase this year. I'll post one here for you all to read with me

    On the Move Again from Somewhere by Michael Rosen

    You know
    You gotta go.
    No time to grieve
    You just gotta leave.

    Get away from the pain
    On the move again.

    Take the train.
    Catch a plane.

    Make the trip
    In a ship.

    Take a hike.
    Ride a bike.

    Go by car.
    Going far.

    Use your feet
    On the street.

    Get stuck
    In a truck.

    Then you arrive.
    And you’re alive.

    You arrive.
    You’re alive.

    What you leave behind
    Won’t leave your mind.

    But home is where you find it.
    Home is where you find it.
    Home is where you find it.
    Home is where you find it


    I hope you all enjoy a poem today, do post below a favourite of yours, or write your own!


  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 59,537 Championing
    I saw this post too late 
  • onebigvoice
    onebigvoice Scope Member Posts: 859 Pioneering

    Can you write a poem.

    SEASONS.

    The summer season is almost over

    The trees are changing colour.

    But instead of becoming bare

    There’s one more burst of colour.

     

    The light and dark greens, a show of summer colour

    Has changed to orange, yellow and a umber colour

    These trees don’t seem that dormant, with their Autum coat

    it’s just one more chance, to show boat all that colour

     

    I can’t say which season I like

    Because, they all have things to give

    But look forward to each change

    As the scenery, changes each year.

     

    I like the mountains in light brown with a tinge of blue

    The cold wind lessen, as the snow begins to melt

    The sun warm glow, it gets in every where

    Which tells me its spring time, and the start of another year

     

    I like the light and dark greens and spring bursts into colour

    Then the adding of the colored flowers, as summer says I’m here

    rolls along, that warming sun, its pretty warm right now

    as summer ripens all the fruit, and flowers have burst into colour.

     

    Now we are here in Autumn the colour has changed again,

    And what was green and tender shoots, have flowered and turned brown in color

    That’s OK the colors are so rich, yellows, orange warmed up by the summer sun.

    As fast as it got warm that blast of winter air, heralds a chill is about to come.

     

    The gusty cold wind, summer has long gone

    There’s no more warming glow, instead there’s flurry’s of that winter snow

    The driving snow collects, in corners and in the shady parts

    Which was an abundance of Blue Bells, now all covered in snow.

     

    I’ve looked out my bedroom window, every day a different view

    and still I marvel at the same countryside, that picture on display

    It makes me realise that mother nature, is looking out for me

    Cause she give me something to look forward to, each and every day of the year.

     

    OBV 09/10/2023.


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