Nina WildflowerFor #WorldPoetryDay I set some rather lovely Palestinian poetry to music.
If you are a musician, setting existing poetry to music is a great way to give yourself ideas for your own songs.🧵
Nothing Remains (Fadwa Tuqan) (English translation)
Using poetry in this way means that someone else has already taken care of the rhythm of the words, so lines scan really well.
Do you have any poetry recommendations?
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Were It Up To Me To Begin Again (Mahmoud Darwish)
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Bee Collector (by Madeline Blair)
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Russell RopeREAL Eyes, Realize, REAL Lies — iM Still Most Wise #WorldPoetryDay >< #tRuth @russellrope @ https://russellrope.com/world-poetry-day-2026/ 👀👁️⚜️📜
Peter Coles 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇮🇪
Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐In ‘The Sleeping Lord’ (1974), David Jones identifies the sleeping Arthur of Welsh tradition with the land itself:
‘Does the land wait the sleeping lord
or is the wasted land
that very lord who sleeps?’
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🎨David Jones, ‘Hill Pasture’ (1925)
Peter Coles 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️No me dejes perder la visión
de tus ojos esculpidos, ni el modo que tienes
de poner en mi mejilla por la noche
la rosa solitaria de tu aliento.
from "Soneto de la dulce queja" by Federico García Lorca
No me dejes perder la visión
de tus ojos esculpidos, ni el modo que tienes
de poner en mi mejilla por la noche
la rosa solitaria de tu aliento.
from "Soneto de la dulce queja" by Federico García Lorca
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KaleidotropeTo celebrate #WorldPoetryDay, here's every single poem Kaleidotrope has ever published, most of which you can read for free right now online: