April is National Poetry Month (NPM). 🔖 Drop by your NIC campus library to pick up an NPM bookmark and see our selection of poetry books. 📜Visit the League of Canadian Poets (ow.ly/3LzH50RgBRW) for more content on NPM. #NationalPoetryMonth2024 #NPM24 #TodaysPoem
'Twists of smoke rise from the limpness of jewelled fingers,
The softness of Persian rugs hushes the room.
Under a dragon lamp with a shade the color of coral
Sit the readers of poems one by one.'
- Edgar Lee Masters. From 'Arabel.' 1915.
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#RILKE THE VOICES Titelblatt / Title Page #DE & #EN then #soundpoem mp3 [7Mb] bit.ly/1RnQyhd
#Sun2Sound #gedicht #poem #Todayspoem
'Let the world
have its way with you,
luminous as it is
with mystery
and pain -
graced as it is
with the ordinary.'
#MaryOliver (from her poem Summer Morning)
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Although, really, is there anything ordinary in this world?
A deep connection,
To God above,
Will help us to flourish,
With His perfect love.
For He sees what's within us,
The beauty we can be,
#todayspoem #writes #Motivation
Victor Otegbade 🕊 Sewedo Wusa Joshua Mike-Bamiloye
White tulips,
red and yellow ones,
real springtime,
I am caressing them
and they agree...
but one reminds me
of something so mine…
this black tulip
between you and me.
#micropoetry (Lluvia de Verano) #todayspoem #colors
“Greetings to the woman who carries the world on her back, Greetings to the half of the sky, Greetings to the smiling face of the fight, Greetings to the one who can be a rose, to the one who smells of roses, to the one who prevents the cruelty” Ahmed Arif #todayspoem famous poet
Day 23 is Margaret Atwood. This is my favourite poem of hers. I love her poetry. (I also love that the late, deeply loved Sudbury poet, Robert Dickson, is quoted on the back of this old book. Robert is still missed here.❤️)
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Recently submitted this poem to the Kyoto Haiku Project*:
A chill in the air
Shadows rain down on children
Gods and mothers weep
- G. P.
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📷'Mother's Embrace' by Daphne Odjig, Potawatomi/Canadian (1919-2016)
Day 29 is Bronwen Wallace’s “A Simple Poem for Virginia Woolf.” Wallace is one of my poetic influences and I love her long, lyrical, personal narrative poems.❤️✨❤️ #TodaysPoem
Day 21 is Michael Ondaatje’s poem, “The Cinnamon Peeler.” I love it more than I can even say…for so so so many reasons.
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