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A belated #cartoon for #nationalpoetryday
October 1, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Hwæt! 🐉

Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?

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October 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
ianduhig.bsky.social
Happy #NationalPoetryDay
October 1, 2026 at 7:15 AM
mrsnodes.bsky.social
Knocks me for six every time I read it #NationalPoetryDay
October 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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#NationalPoetryDay #Wonder
October 1, 2026 at 6:46 AM
localnotail.bsky.social
Whole thread of Benjamin Zephaniah poems for #NationalPoetryDay
localnotail.bsky.social Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Feb 12
"We Refugees" by Benjamin Zephaniah

We can all be refugees
Sometimes it only takes a day
Sometimes it only takes a handshake
Or a paper that is signed
...
We can all be refugees
Nobody is safe
All it takes is a mad leader
Or no rain to bring forth food
We Refugees by Benjamin Zephaniah I come from a musical place Where they shoot me for my song And my brother has been tortured By my brother in my land I come from a beautiful place Where they hate my shade of skin They don't like the way I pray And they ban free poetry I come from a beautiful place Where girls cannot go to school There you are told what to believe And even young boys must grow beards I come from a great old forest I think it is now a field And the people I once knew Are not there now We can all be refugees Nobody is safe All it takes is a mad leader Or no rain to bring forth food. We can all be refugees We can all be told to go We can be hated by someone For being someone 1/2 2/2 I come from a beautiful place Where the valley floods each year And each year the hurricane tells us That we must keep moving on I come from an ancient place All my family were born there And I would like to go there But I really want to live I come from a sunny, sandy place Where tourists go to darken skin And dealers like to sell guns there I just can't tell you what's the price I am told I have no country now I am told I am a lie I am told that modern history books May forget my name We can all be refugees Sometimes it only takes a day Sometimes it only takes a handshake Or a paper that is signed We all came from refugees Nobody simply just appeared Nobody's here without a struggle And why should we live in fear Of the weather or the troubles? We all came here from somewhere We Refugees by Benjamin Zephaniah First published in the book Wicked World, by Puffin Books.
October 1, 2026 at 10:29 AM
ianduhig.bsky.social
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October 1, 2026 at 1:58 PM
orkneylibrary.bsky.social
s of the night.

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A stack of books. Their spines read Tiger Tiger Burning Bright, In the Forest
October 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
ianduhig.bsky.social
Woman walks into a Hull hairdresser and asks for a perm.

Certainly, he replies: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'

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October 1, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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alisoneales.com Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · Dec 11
people often ask
how I write such good haiku:
practice, practice, prac
March 21, 2026 at 7:49 PM
bigshirtlesscol.bsky.social
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I always feel nervous posting something of mine but sod it.
October 1, 2026 at 8:17 AM
ofalafel.bsky.social
The man in Rymans
Had to think
When I asked to see
The invisible ink.

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October 1, 2026 at 6:03 PM
robinince.bsky.social
A poetry for #nationalpoetryday about freedom of expression Robinince.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
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localnotail.bsky.social Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Oct 3
This poem by Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social was written in 2014, but it fits the Trump MAGA American Fascism so clearly.

Make America Great Again

Drain The Swamp
Sunday, 18 May 2014 Michael Rosen Fascism: I sometimes fear... I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you... It doesn't walk in saying, "Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution." https://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/fascism-i-sometimes-fear.html?m=1
October 1, 2026 at 10:28 AM
shadowjaime.bsky.social
#NationalPoetryDay #Poetry

“Give Me This”
— Ada Limón

Asked by a reader to describe what suffering is, Limón instead finds joy in watching a groundhog feast on her unripe tomatoes.
April 16, 2026 at 10:44 AM
chrishewitt.bsky.social
Just noticed this lovely touch — all of Channel 4’s programme guide info for today is written in rhyme to mark #NationalPoetryDay.
October 1, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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For #Nationalpoetryday
A Timely Reminder
October 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
orkneylibrary.bsky.social
a short poem name
like when we meet a bovine
and we say 'hi coo'

#NationalPoetryDay #Haiku
A black and white archive photograph of a cow standing beside a track leading down to a mill. The cow is looking at the camera.
October 1, 2026 at 10:06 AM
bigshirtlesscol.bsky.social
#NationalPoetryDay some of mine.
March 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
tedbun.bsky.social
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A bit of doggerel by me
October 1, 2026 at 7:45 PM
rufustsuperfly.bsky.social
I taught Long Distance, Tony Harrison’s beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.
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October 1, 2026 at 12:33 PM
joshuaseigal.bsky.social
Happy #NationalPoetryDay! Fun poem below!
joshuaseigal.bsky.social Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social · Nov 25
Hello everyone! I am Josh, a poet, performer and workshop leader. Do please visit my website for lots of fun, FREE poems and resources: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk. Below is one of my best known poems, which is one of the many on my site. I hope you enjoy, and do please gimme a follow! #EduSky #poetry
October 1, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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October 1, 2026 at 9:30 AM
danacea.bsky.social
For #NationalPoetryDay, a timeless classic:
The Tiger, by Nael, age 6 From, 'They're Singing a Song in Their Rocket' The tiger He destroyed his cage Yes YES The tiger is out
October 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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#NationalPoetryDay

Kind hearts are the gardens,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the blossoms,
Kind deeds are the fruits.

Take care of your garden
And keep out the weeds,
Fill it with sunshine,
Kind words, and kind deeds.

- #Longfellow

Photo: somewhere in #France

#FlowersOnFriday
September 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM