It sneaks in on a Tuesday,
You're in your teens, in class.
Nobody cares what you say.
You feel in shards of glass.
~ How Poetry Works, by @j-tkelly.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
You're in your teens, in class.
Nobody cares what you say.
You feel in shards of glass.
~ How Poetry Works, by @j-tkelly.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
How Poetry Works, by J-T Kelly
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
March 9, 2026 at 3:03 PM
It sneaks in on a Tuesday,
You're in your teens, in class.
Nobody cares what you say.
You feel in shards of glass.
~ How Poetry Works, by @j-tkelly.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
You're in your teens, in class.
Nobody cares what you say.
You feel in shards of glass.
~ How Poetry Works, by @j-tkelly.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
My father died
defending our home,
our village, our country.
~ Betrayal, by Tenzin Tsundue
Read by Sukrity Gogoi.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #TibetanPoetry #IndianPoetry
defending our home,
our village, our country.
~ Betrayal, by Tenzin Tsundue
Read by Sukrity Gogoi.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #TibetanPoetry #IndianPoetry
Betrayal, by Tenzin Tsundue
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
May 29, 2026 at 3:47 PM
My father died
defending our home,
our village, our country.
~ Betrayal, by Tenzin Tsundue
Read by Sukrity Gogoi.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #TibetanPoetry #IndianPoetry
defending our home,
our village, our country.
~ Betrayal, by Tenzin Tsundue
Read by Sukrity Gogoi.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #TibetanPoetry #IndianPoetry
What’s even better than reading #PoetryInParks?
Putting books in the hands of all who want them, particularly those from historically disadvantaged communities.
That’s what @freelibsnet.bsky.social and their member libraries do.
Follow, and reshare their post. Many goodies are coming your way.
Putting books in the hands of all who want them, particularly those from historically disadvantaged communities.
That’s what @freelibsnet.bsky.social and their member libraries do.
Follow, and reshare their post. Many goodies are coming your way.
It’s the season of love! Revolutionary library love!
Share this with your friends & family (in India) and get them to follow us here in large numbers!
As for the rest? All will be revealed tomorrow 🥸🩵
Share this with your friends & family (in India) and get them to follow us here in large numbers!
As for the rest? All will be revealed tomorrow 🥸🩵
February 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
What’s even better than reading #PoetryInParks?
Putting books in the hands of all who want them, particularly those from historically disadvantaged communities.
That’s what @freelibsnet.bsky.social and their member libraries do.
Follow, and reshare their post. Many goodies are coming your way.
Putting books in the hands of all who want them, particularly those from historically disadvantaged communities.
That’s what @freelibsnet.bsky.social and their member libraries do.
Follow, and reshare their post. Many goodies are coming your way.
Knowledge is wealth,
Greater than all riches,
Wise is considered he,
Who acquires it.
~ The Greatest Wealth, by Savitribai Phule
Read by Alka Dhupkar.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry #DalitPoetry #DalitHistoryMonth
Greater than all riches,
Wise is considered he,
Who acquires it.
~ The Greatest Wealth, by Savitribai Phule
Read by Alka Dhupkar.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry #DalitPoetry #DalitHistoryMonth
The Greatest Wealth, by Savitribai Phule
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
April 2, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Knowledge is wealth,
Greater than all riches,
Wise is considered he,
Who acquires it.
~ The Greatest Wealth, by Savitribai Phule
Read by Alka Dhupkar.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry #DalitPoetry #DalitHistoryMonth
Greater than all riches,
Wise is considered he,
Who acquires it.
~ The Greatest Wealth, by Savitribai Phule
Read by Alka Dhupkar.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry #DalitPoetry #DalitHistoryMonth
Sometimes,
the outward signals
of inward struggles takes colossal forms
And the revolution happens because our dreams explode.
~ Aggression, by Meena Kandasamy
Read by Nikita.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry #DalitPoetry #DalitHistoryMonth
the outward signals
of inward struggles takes colossal forms
And the revolution happens because our dreams explode.
~ Aggression, by Meena Kandasamy
Read by Nikita.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry #DalitPoetry #DalitHistoryMonth
Aggression, by Meena Kandasamy
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
April 5, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Sometimes,
the outward signals
of inward struggles takes colossal forms
And the revolution happens because our dreams explode.
~ Aggression, by Meena Kandasamy
Read by Nikita.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry #DalitPoetry #DalitHistoryMonth
the outward signals
of inward struggles takes colossal forms
And the revolution happens because our dreams explode.
~ Aggression, by Meena Kandasamy
Read by Nikita.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry #DalitPoetry #DalitHistoryMonth
How else do we return to ourselves but to fold
The page so it points to the good part
What we’ll always have is something we lost
~ Snow Theory, by Ocean Vuong
Read by Vish.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
The page so it points to the good part
What we’ll always have is something we lost
~ Snow Theory, by Ocean Vuong
Read by Vish.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
Snow Theory, by Ocean Vuong
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
March 29, 2026 at 12:04 PM
How else do we return to ourselves but to fold
The page so it points to the good part
What we’ll always have is something we lost
~ Snow Theory, by Ocean Vuong
Read by Vish.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
The page so it points to the good part
What we’ll always have is something we lost
~ Snow Theory, by Ocean Vuong
Read by Vish.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
I wake and find myself in love:
And this one time I do not doubt.
I only fear, and wander out
To hold long parley with a dove.
~ The Garden, by Dom Moraes
Read by Menka Shivdasani.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry
And this one time I do not doubt.
I only fear, and wander out
To hold long parley with a dove.
~ The Garden, by Dom Moraes
Read by Menka Shivdasani.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry
The Garden, by Dom Moraes
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
May 28, 2026 at 10:38 AM
I wake and find myself in love:
And this one time I do not doubt.
I only fear, and wander out
To hold long parley with a dove.
~ The Garden, by Dom Moraes
Read by Menka Shivdasani.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry
And this one time I do not doubt.
I only fear, and wander out
To hold long parley with a dove.
~ The Garden, by Dom Moraes
Read by Menka Shivdasani.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry
His eyes dimmed by age
fade homeward through the humid monsoon night.
Now I can see him getting off the train
Like a word dropped from a long sentence.
~ Father Returning Home, by Dilip Chitre
Read by @mumbaipaused.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry
fade homeward through the humid monsoon night.
Now I can see him getting off the train
Like a word dropped from a long sentence.
~ Father Returning Home, by Dilip Chitre
Read by @mumbaipaused.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry
Father Returning Home, by Dilip Chitre
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
March 31, 2026 at 11:29 AM
His eyes dimmed by age
fade homeward through the humid monsoon night.
Now I can see him getting off the train
Like a word dropped from a long sentence.
~ Father Returning Home, by Dilip Chitre
Read by @mumbaipaused.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry
fade homeward through the humid monsoon night.
Now I can see him getting off the train
Like a word dropped from a long sentence.
~ Father Returning Home, by Dilip Chitre
Read by @mumbaipaused.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry
Clownlike, happiest on your hands,
Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled,
Gilled like a fish. A common-sense
Thumbs-down on the dodo’s mode.
~ You're, by Sylvia Plath
Read by Saundarya.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled,
Gilled like a fish. A common-sense
Thumbs-down on the dodo’s mode.
~ You're, by Sylvia Plath
Read by Saundarya.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
You're, by Sylvia Plath
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
May 27, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Clownlike, happiest on your hands,
Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled,
Gilled like a fish. A common-sense
Thumbs-down on the dodo’s mode.
~ You're, by Sylvia Plath
Read by Saundarya.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled,
Gilled like a fish. A common-sense
Thumbs-down on the dodo’s mode.
~ You're, by Sylvia Plath
Read by Saundarya.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
Next #PoetryInParks is in Belapur, 6th April.
Mail { poetry DOT in DOT parks DOT nm @ gmail } to get a calendar invitation & map location pin.
See youtube.com/@PoetryInParks / instagram.com/poetry.in.parks for past meets.
Mail { poetry DOT in DOT parks DOT nm @ gmail } to get a calendar invitation & map location pin.
See youtube.com/@PoetryInParks / instagram.com/poetry.in.parks for past meets.
March 30, 2024 at 4:47 AM
Next #PoetryInParks is in Belapur, 6th April.
Mail { poetry DOT in DOT parks DOT nm @ gmail } to get a calendar invitation & map location pin.
See youtube.com/@PoetryInParks / instagram.com/poetry.in.parks for past meets.
Mail { poetry DOT in DOT parks DOT nm @ gmail } to get a calendar invitation & map location pin.
See youtube.com/@PoetryInParks / instagram.com/poetry.in.parks for past meets.
evidence of homes buried
in different names
here
the years we never defined
here
the echoes we collected
in each other
here
~ Here, by Nathalie Handal
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
in different names
here
the years we never defined
here
the echoes we collected
in each other
here
~ Here, by Nathalie Handal
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
Here, by Nathalie Handal
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
March 10, 2026 at 1:32 PM
evidence of homes buried
in different names
here
the years we never defined
here
the echoes we collected
in each other
here
~ Here, by Nathalie Handal
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
in different names
here
the years we never defined
here
the echoes we collected
in each other
here
~ Here, by Nathalie Handal
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
I Wrote A Good Omelet, by Nikki Giovanni
youtu.be
February 18, 2024 at 9:45 AM
the clothes you wear on your mouth.
the warm smoke in your legs.
a quiet quilt.
~ [Things you bring to the ocean at night]
Nayyirah Waheed
Read by @yellowchiffon.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
the warm smoke in your legs.
a quiet quilt.
~ [Things you bring to the ocean at night]
Nayyirah Waheed
Read by @yellowchiffon.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
[Things you bring to the ocean at night], by Nayyirah Waheed
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
March 11, 2026 at 10:33 AM
the clothes you wear on your mouth.
the warm smoke in your legs.
a quiet quilt.
~ [Things you bring to the ocean at night]
Nayyirah Waheed
Read by @yellowchiffon.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
the warm smoke in your legs.
a quiet quilt.
~ [Things you bring to the ocean at night]
Nayyirah Waheed
Read by @yellowchiffon.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
I wrote a good omelet...and ate
a hot poem... after loving you
Buttoned my car...and drove my
coat home...in the rain...
~ I Wrote A Good Omelet, by Nikki Giovanni
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
a hot poem... after loving you
Buttoned my car...and drove my
coat home...in the rain...
~ I Wrote A Good Omelet, by Nikki Giovanni
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
I Wrote A Good Omelet, by Nikki Giovanni
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
May 26, 2026 at 1:59 PM
I wrote a good omelet...and ate
a hot poem... after loving you
Buttoned my car...and drove my
coat home...in the rain...
~ I Wrote A Good Omelet, by Nikki Giovanni
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
a hot poem... after loving you
Buttoned my car...and drove my
coat home...in the rain...
~ I Wrote A Good Omelet, by Nikki Giovanni
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
-Poetry must be raw like a side of beef,
should drip blood, remind you of sweat
and dusty slaughter and the epidermal crunch
and the sudden bullet to the head.
~What Poetry Means to Ernestina In Peril by Mona Zote
Read by @ideasmithy.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #IndianPoetry
should drip blood, remind you of sweat
and dusty slaughter and the epidermal crunch
and the sudden bullet to the head.
~What Poetry Means to Ernestina In Peril by Mona Zote
Read by @ideasmithy.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #IndianPoetry
What Poetry Means to Ernestina In Peril, by Mona Zote
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
May 23, 2026 at 1:28 PM
-Poetry must be raw like a side of beef,
should drip blood, remind you of sweat
and dusty slaughter and the epidermal crunch
and the sudden bullet to the head.
~What Poetry Means to Ernestina In Peril by Mona Zote
Read by @ideasmithy.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #IndianPoetry
should drip blood, remind you of sweat
and dusty slaughter and the epidermal crunch
and the sudden bullet to the head.
~What Poetry Means to Ernestina In Peril by Mona Zote
Read by @ideasmithy.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #IndianPoetry
Here queue up they who want to taste
Poison’s sweet or salt flavour
Death gathers here, as do words,
In just a minute, it will start pouring here.
~ Kamatipura, by Namdeo Dhasal (tr. Dilip Chitre)
Read by Sudheesh.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #IndianPoetry #DalitHistoryMonth #DalitPoetry
Poison’s sweet or salt flavour
Death gathers here, as do words,
In just a minute, it will start pouring here.
~ Kamatipura, by Namdeo Dhasal (tr. Dilip Chitre)
Read by Sudheesh.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #IndianPoetry #DalitHistoryMonth #DalitPoetry
Kamatipura, by Namdeo Dhasal
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
April 8, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Here queue up they who want to taste
Poison’s sweet or salt flavour
Death gathers here, as do words,
In just a minute, it will start pouring here.
~ Kamatipura, by Namdeo Dhasal (tr. Dilip Chitre)
Read by Sudheesh.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #IndianPoetry #DalitHistoryMonth #DalitPoetry
Poison’s sweet or salt flavour
Death gathers here, as do words,
In just a minute, it will start pouring here.
~ Kamatipura, by Namdeo Dhasal (tr. Dilip Chitre)
Read by Sudheesh.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #IndianPoetry #DalitHistoryMonth #DalitPoetry
Your body is away from me
but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.
~ The Window, by Rumi
Read by Priyadarshini
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #AsianPoetry
youtu.be/UyIFEAAp47E?...
but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.
~ The Window, by Rumi
Read by Priyadarshini
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #AsianPoetry
youtu.be/UyIFEAAp47E?...
The Window, by Rumi
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
May 22, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Your body is away from me
but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.
~ The Window, by Rumi
Read by Priyadarshini
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #AsianPoetry
youtu.be/UyIFEAAp47E?...
but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.
~ The Window, by Rumi
Read by Priyadarshini
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #AsianPoetry
youtu.be/UyIFEAAp47E?...
I lie in the dark, listening to a pulse of sound,
letters in an unknown alphabet spelling out words
that come and go through a sorrowful labyrinth.
~ Sleeve, by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Read by @nandanky.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #QueerPoetry
letters in an unknown alphabet spelling out words
that come and go through a sorrowful labyrinth.
~ Sleeve, by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Read by @nandanky.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #QueerPoetry
Sleeve, by Minnie Bruce Pratt
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
March 14, 2026 at 2:14 PM
I lie in the dark, listening to a pulse of sound,
letters in an unknown alphabet spelling out words
that come and go through a sorrowful labyrinth.
~ Sleeve, by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Read by @nandanky.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #QueerPoetry
letters in an unknown alphabet spelling out words
that come and go through a sorrowful labyrinth.
~ Sleeve, by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Read by @nandanky.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #QueerPoetry
Land is what you look for, all your life.
Zameen is what you hope to find.
~ Harbour Thoughts by @ranjithoskote.bsky.social
read by @mumbaipaused.bsky.social
#poetryinparks #poem
Zameen is what you hope to find.
~ Harbour Thoughts by @ranjithoskote.bsky.social
read by @mumbaipaused.bsky.social
#poetryinparks #poem
Harbour Thoughts, by Ranjit Hoskote
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
May 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Land is what you look for, all your life.
Zameen is what you hope to find.
~ Harbour Thoughts by @ranjithoskote.bsky.social
read by @mumbaipaused.bsky.social
#poetryinparks #poem
Zameen is what you hope to find.
~ Harbour Thoughts by @ranjithoskote.bsky.social
read by @mumbaipaused.bsky.social
#poetryinparks #poem
-why speak of meat
or beef, when the aftertaste of talk
is not just a threat of televised gang-rape,
but a village gathering to slaughter a man-
A Poem On Not Writing Poems, by Meena Kandasamy
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #DalitHistoryMonth #DalitPoetry #AmbedkarJayanti
or beef, when the aftertaste of talk
is not just a threat of televised gang-rape,
but a village gathering to slaughter a man-
A Poem On Not Writing Poems, by Meena Kandasamy
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #DalitHistoryMonth #DalitPoetry #AmbedkarJayanti
A Poem On Not Writing Poems, by Meena Kandasamy
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 PM
-why speak of meat
or beef, when the aftertaste of talk
is not just a threat of televised gang-rape,
but a village gathering to slaughter a man-
A Poem On Not Writing Poems, by Meena Kandasamy
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #DalitHistoryMonth #DalitPoetry #AmbedkarJayanti
or beef, when the aftertaste of talk
is not just a threat of televised gang-rape,
but a village gathering to slaughter a man-
A Poem On Not Writing Poems, by Meena Kandasamy
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #DalitHistoryMonth #DalitPoetry #AmbedkarJayanti
Sharing poetry from Palestine is how PoetryInParks began. And we have read many more since then. #WorldPoetryDay
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Palestinian poetry - YouTube
www.youtube.com
March 21, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Sharing poetry from Palestine is how PoetryInParks began. And we have read many more since then. #WorldPoetryDay
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
~ Lost, by David Wagoner
Read by Atika Chohan.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
~ Lost, by David Wagoner
Read by Atika Chohan.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
Lost, by David Wagoner
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
March 27, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
~ Lost, by David Wagoner
Read by Atika Chohan.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
~ Lost, by David Wagoner
Read by Atika Chohan.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
~ One Art, by Elizabeth Bishop
Read by Garima Singh.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
~ One Art, by Elizabeth Bishop
Read by Garima Singh.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
One Art, by Elizabeth Bishop
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
youtu.be
March 23, 2026 at 2:12 PM
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
~ One Art, by Elizabeth Bishop
Read by Garima Singh.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
~ One Art, by Elizabeth Bishop
Read by Garima Singh.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem
I’m dreaming seditious dreams,
I’m singing a seditious song!
I’m loving my neighbours,
don’t care where they’re from—
let’s abolish all checkpoints
and borders…
as we sing a seditious song!
~ A Seditious Song! by Hamraaz
read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
#poetryinparks #poem
I’m singing a seditious song!
I’m loving my neighbours,
don’t care where they’re from—
let’s abolish all checkpoints
and borders…
as we sing a seditious song!
~ A Seditious Song! by Hamraaz
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A Seditious Song! by Hamraaz
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
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June 15, 2025 at 5:39 AM
I’m dreaming seditious dreams,
I’m singing a seditious song!
I’m loving my neighbours,
don’t care where they’re from—
let’s abolish all checkpoints
and borders…
as we sing a seditious song!
~ A Seditious Song! by Hamraaz
read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
#poetryinparks #poem
I’m singing a seditious song!
I’m loving my neighbours,
don’t care where they’re from—
let’s abolish all checkpoints
and borders…
as we sing a seditious song!
~ A Seditious Song! by Hamraaz
read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
#poetryinparks #poem
Take my shirt off
and go in there to do puja ?
No thanks.
Not me.
But you go right ahead
if that's what you want to do.
~ Makarand, by Arun Kolatkar
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#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry
and go in there to do puja ?
No thanks.
Not me.
But you go right ahead
if that's what you want to do.
~ Makarand, by Arun Kolatkar
Read by L.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry
Makarand, by Arun Kolatkar
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
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June 14, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Take my shirt off
and go in there to do puja ?
No thanks.
Not me.
But you go right ahead
if that's what you want to do.
~ Makarand, by Arun Kolatkar
Read by L.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry
and go in there to do puja ?
No thanks.
Not me.
But you go right ahead
if that's what you want to do.
~ Makarand, by Arun Kolatkar
Read by L.
#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry