National Poetry Day is a campaign for poets, poetry fans and poetry organisations to enjoy and participate in, held every year on the first Thursday in October.
Poetry helps us to remember stories, from Jack and Jill all the way to the Odyssey. Children love rhymes and rhythms; but poetry also helps them to improve literacy, to articulating a story or argument, to deliver a punchline or a morisal.
The theme for National Poetry Day 2013 is 'water'.
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
'If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad'
A Seaburn Sonnet
I was born and raised
within easy reach
Been a while since I
set foot on the beach
What I noticed first
was the strident sound
How loudly the waves
crashed on pebbled ground
From atop the
crumbling cliff all seemed calm
Up close and personal
it could do great harm
I resolve not to stay
away so long
The sea has a need to
give me its song
The air is better
closer to the sea
Ozone is plentiful
and all for free
Good for the voice a
teacher did assert
Legal performance
enhancer - no dirt!
Sweet music and song
from water and rocks
But be warned the sea
is sly as a fox
©David L Atkinson
October 2012
And a more recent tongue in cheek offering.
Last Wish
When it’s time to take the final
sleep
the body tired and the mind free.
Cast the ashes into the deep
then enemies can dance upon the
sea!
©David L Atkinson September 2013
And a topical quote from the late Spike Milligan
'A sure fire cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree'
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