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Today is World Wide Web Day Lived half of my life with it & half without it. Life is easier but not always better Certainly without it we would not have this poem by Brian Bilston. The footnote explains how the poem was created Shakespeare sitting alongside Love Actually #poetry #poemoftheday

An ekphrastic poem by Sharon Olds as haunting as the image that inspired it A century later famine caused by politics, and sometimes as a deliberate weapon, is still a reality for many That final heartbreaking image though - comparing fertility with famine, life with death #poetry #poemoftheday

Today is #InternationalDayOfFriendship No better poem to share today than this The Prophet is one of my favourite books. It, and this poem, is filled with beautiful words & wisdom in equal measure. ‘in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed’ #poetry #poemoftheday

More #Odyssey Homer’s version of 'killing of the suitors' represents Odysseus's need for justice & the restoration of order Longley's poem differs, shifting focus from heroic avengers to blood thirsty killers The poem is an allegory for atrocities of the Shankill Butchers #poetry #poemoftheday

Today is the anniversary of 2005 IRA Ceasefire The Michael Longley poem below was written in 1994 The Trojan ceasefire, like the Irish, was a cessation rather than an end. Both wars claimed lives afterwards. 21 years later, we are still struggling to find reconciliation #poetry #poemoftheday

This short poem captures love in its most fragile and instinctive form, exploring its persistence beneath consciousness A whispered confession between sleep and waking becomes a metaphor for nature’s renewal, grass and flowers emerging despite the harshness of winter #poetry #poemoftheday

A recalled childhood conversation reflecting on the emotional impact of memory The Tremor, not Tarzan’s, is produced by memory returning Is there a colonial aspect to this poem too? Heaney framing the hero of childhood memory as a morally dubious figure? #poetry #poemoftheday #seamusheaneysunday

Today is World Drowning Prevention Day Read this poem slowly, there’s a lot in it Check on those you care about to make sure they aren’t drowning, suffering is often hidden behind ordinary gestures If you are drowning shouting out is better than waving #poetry #poemoftheday #ItsOkayToNotBeOkay

From Jericho Brown’s collection 'The New Testament' Two things worth noting that are unsettling The poem is presented as an elegy but doesn’t feel like a traditional elegy The 2nd person perspective moves us from reader to witness, to participant. #poetry #poemoftheday

Amy would have been 42 today On her anniversary - a poem by Patti Smith that later became lyrics to her song She stays away from sensationalism and sentimentality, this feels more like a lament It asks why we want our artists to be symbols before we allow them to be people   #poetry #poemoftheday

I am incredibly proud to graduate with an MA in Creative Writing from @manmetuni.bsky.social Special thanks to Jean Sprackland, kimmoorepoet.bsky.social & Andrew McMillan for the best 2 years To mark the day an extract from The Stirling Stanzas by Seamus Heaney #poetry #poemoftheday #McrMetProud

From @angelagraham.bsky.social remarkable collection ‘Exposure’ – photopoetics with the photos deliberately left out It explores the unspoken trauma of war Just as the omitted photos speak through Angela's poems the soldier says more about trauma in silence than with words #poetry #poemoftheday