National Poetry Day.

 National Poetry Day. 

You have a vested interest in this day. Today, as you may or may not know, is National Poetry Day. Now up until quite recently I hadn't really contemplated re-discovering my interest in poetry or thought provoking verse. But a chance creative writing session on Zoom a couple of months ago re-ignited that fascination with everything poetic or lyrical. 

So grasping the nettle, I ventured forward into the unknown and tried to paint word pictures and images with a poetic connotation to it. It was time to reveal my love of the English language, its grammar and vocabulary, illustrating images with descriptive expressions. And so it began. For the next couple of weeks and months I found the whole experience both exceptionally cathartic and very satisfying to me personally. 

Now let me give you the chance to find out more about my poetry or verse. If you go to either the Royal Society of Literature Facebook page and scroll down the thread that says only two days left to today's competition end date you'll find most of my poems. My name is Joe Morris. Alternatively you could also go to the Jewish Poetry Society on Facebook  with 84 members, I think. But they're definitely all there as well. 

Or you could also go to the Poetry Archive page on Facebook. Either of the above Facebook pages will give you a perfect insight into my very specific take on poetry. You may think scratch your heads or you could indulge in a giggle or chuckle. It is profound, quite abstract and thoughtful. But if you like the play of words and emotions then you may stop to think for a moment. 

Please feel free to add any comments about my poetry because it would be nice to get some feedback on my poetry. At the moment this is my burgeoning interest in poetry and I'd love to put these in a book, my personal contributions to the world of poetry. Sadly, poetry hasn't really got the favourable publicity it may have deserved over the years but poetry societies, clubs and organisations continue to be flourishing concerns and deservedly so. 

So if you've got a tea or coffee break at work or school, a lunch hour to spare at school or university you may like to read some of my poetic outpourings at your leisure. We all need reflective moments to take our mind away from an often chaotic world and I've tried to be as amusing and imaginative as I possibly can. 

But yes. It's National Poetry Day, a day devoted to celebrating the often misunderstood world of rhyme, stanzas, verse, metres and iambic pentameters. You should find 30 to 40 poems to date but I'll keep thinking of more. It's hard to know what the likes of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Butler Yeats, John Keats, William Wordsworth or Oscar Wilde would have thought of today's contemporary poetry.

Then again there was William Shakespeare, the pioneering spirit whose wondrously purple prose made him one of the foremost authorities on poetry from the Middle Ages, a medieval maestro of the written word, a class act and somebody whose influence throughout the world continues to attract a vast audience. His plays are of course legendary and his poetry also highly eulogised in every corner of the globe- including the Globe Theatre in London. 

There you have it Ladies and Gentlemen. It's National Poetry Day and let's wax lyrical about life, the past, present and the future. We can all call on poetic licence or move to the infectious beat or rhythm of life. My poetry can be found in all of the above suggested sites on Facebook. Poetry in Motion to quote that famous song. Thanks everybody.