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The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins!

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September 24, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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The Present by Billy Collins
Much has been said about being in the present. It’s the place to be, according to the gurus, like the latest club on the downtown scene, but no one, it seems, is able to give you directions. It doesn’t seem desirable or even possible to wake up every morning and begin leaping from one second into the next until you fall exhausted back into bed. Plus, there’d be no past with so many scenes to savor and regret, and no future, the place you will die but not before flying around with a jet-pack. The trouble with the present is that it’s always in a state of vanishing. Take the second it takes to end this sentence with a period––already gone. What about the moment that exists between banging your thumb with a hammer and realizing you are in a whole lot of pain? What about the one that occurs after you hear the punch line but before you get the joke? Is that where the wise men want us to live in that intervening tick, the tiny slot that occurs after you have spent hours searching downtown for that new club and just before you give up and head back home?
September 16, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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For those who have lost a pet, this lovely poem by Billy Collins: #poetry #BillyCollins
August 11, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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TFW a cherished friend sends you the perfect gift: Billy Collins’ Dog Show #dogs #gift #poetry #billycollins #booklovers #booksky
Billy Collins Dog Show
December 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Stardate: 2026.3.3 - "Today by Billy Collins"

A little poetry to put an added spring in your step. 🙏
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Today, a poem by Billy Collins over a nature photo.
March 3, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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Billy Collins also happens to have written my favorite poem, "Serenade"
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SERENADE by Billy Collins Let the other boys form the village gather under your window and strum their bean-shaped guitars. Let them huddle under your balcony heavy with flowers, and fill the...
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January 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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April is National Poetry Month.

Celebrating all poetry opens for us with this gem from Billy Collins.

Poetry isn't deep as much as it reveals the depths within us.

Copyright 1988, 1996 by Billy Collins.

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April 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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The Art of Drowning 2/2

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March 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Happy Birthday, Billy Collins, born on this day in 1941! In his honor, The Art of Drowning, in two parts.
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March 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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While eating a pear, Billy Collins

A midnight effort to get back into the habit! I've been rediscovering art lately, which has squeezed my writing time. This is KWZ Iron Gall Turquoise, which I've featured many times as I love it!

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July 7, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.
March 21, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House
by Billy Collins
The neighbors' dog will not stop barking. He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark that he barks every time they leave the house. They must switch him on on their way out. The neighbors' dog will not stop barking. I close all the windows in the house and put on a Beethoven symphony full blast but I can still hear him muffled under the music, barking, barking, barking, and now I can see him sitting in the orchestra, his head raised confidently as if Beethoven had included a part for barking dog. When the record finally ends he is still barking, sitting there in the oboe section barking, his eyes fixed on the conductor who is entreating him with his baton while the other musicians listen in respectful silence to the famous barking dog solo, that endless coda that first established Beethoven as an innovative genius.
July 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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The History Teacher by Billy Collins
Trying to protect his student’s innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a period of a million years when everyone had to wear sweaters. And the Stone Age became the Gravel Age, named after the long driveways of the time. The Spanish Inquisition was nothing more than an outbreak of questions such as “How far is it from here to Madrid?” “What do you call the matador’s hat?” The War of the Roses took place in a garden, and the Enola Gay dropped one tiny atom on Japan. The children would leave his classroom for the playground and torment the weak and the smart, mussing up their hair and breaking their glasses, while he gathered his notes and walked home past flower beds and white picket fences, wondering if they would believe that soldiers in the Boer War told long, rambling stories designed to make the enemy nod off.
March 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Today by Billy Collins
If ever there were a spring day so perfect, so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze that it made you want to throw open all the windows in the house and unlatch the door to the canary's cage, indeed, rip the little door from its jamb, a day when the cool brick paths and the garden bursting with peonies seemed so etched in sunlight that you felt like taking a hammer to the glass paperweight on the living room end table, releasing the inhabitants from their snow-covered cottage so they could walk out, holding hands and squinting into this larger dome of blue and white, well, today is just that kind of day.
March 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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#BillyCollins #Sonnet #Poetry
December 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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#RHLoines #BillyCollins #Sonnets
December 29, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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Today for #NationalPoetryMonth another meditation
#AsIfToDemonstrateAnEclipse by #BillyCollins
(I may have shared this previously on Post but it’s that good)
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“and I begin to sing
a homemade canticle of thanks”

“and I get more and more cockeyed with gratitude.”
I pick an orange from a wicker basket and place it on the table to represent the sun. Then down at the other end a blue and white marble becomes the earth and nearby I lay the little moon of an aspirin. I get a glass from a cabinet, open a bottle of wine, then I sit in a ladder-back chair, a benevolent god presiding over a miniature creation myth, and I begin to sing a homemade canticle of thanks for this perfect little arrangement, for not making the earth too hot or cold not making it spin too fast or slow so that the grove of orange trees and the owl become possible, not to mention the rolling wave, the play of clouds, geese in flight, and the Z of lightning on a dark lake. Then I fill my glass again and give thanks for the trout, the oak, and the yellow feather, singing the room full of shadows, as sun and earth and moon circle one another in their impeccable orbits and I get more and more cockeyed with gratitude.
April 2, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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New read: jumped (very stealthily) for joy when I found a Billy Collins collection I've not read in my local library last week, and it has been a lovely companion for a weekend in old haunts. #newread #billycollins #poetry #thetroublewithpoetryandotherpoems
A library copy of "The Trouble with Poetry and other poems" by Billy Collins on a desk, the cover shows a bear holding a white rabbit.
March 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM