National Poetry Day

Jimm_Scope

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!

Jimm_Scope

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

That's lovely and very seasonal @moonchild3! Thank you for posting that and welcome to the community!

marybottomley

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

I saw this post too late 

onebigvoice

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.