Today is National Poetry Day so I'm going to again share my favourite contemporary poem, which is I'm Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense by Danez Smith...
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing this.
goddamn, dude
This sounds like the opposite of “California dreaming “
also one of my favorites
My favourite poem by Al Purdy, my favourite poet: Attempt Man’s sole gesture of defiance at a hostile or indifferent universe is standing outside at night after the requisite number of beers and with a graceful enormous parabola trying to piss on the stars failing magnificently
And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...
As someone who has been wanting to move back to Minnesota for the past few years and probably will finally make it happen within the next few years, this hits
My gosh that is a good poem. Wow.
… I don’t understand this at all I’d kill to be by the ocean again.
That is a really good poem! Thank you!