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Brian BilstonOn World Poetry Day, here’s a reminder of the power of poetry and its potential to change the world.
Jenica Lake เหล็ถเลถ@brianbilston yeeting with yeat!
Andrewbut with a second thought
and due refection,
poetry has potential, spic'd
with meditation,
to unlock his mind from
this tribal thinking,
and let a lance of sun
alight the spaces within, sparkling
poguemahone ☑️🇮🇪🏴🇪🇺@brianbilston I said he should be thrown in a pit of Readymix concrete, but that would be setting a bad president...
🐕@brianbilston do we think everyone boosting or liking this has just banned themselves from entry to the USA? 🤔
Boost away peeps!
phobos_UAC@brianbilston hahaha pure gold right here, didnt expect the ending at all, seems i should reignite my interest in poetry!
JuneSim63 💚I can't like this poem enough.
Petra van Cronenburg@junesim63 Me, too. And the power of poetry! @brianbilston
ArdentArchivistWell played, sir! 👏👏👏👏
Manc AvGeek@brianbilston Genius!
Sarah W@brianbilston
Brilliant Brian.
Brilliant Brian.
K4mpfie@brianbilston Poetry is a great way to check you speech. I'm not a native speaker so for me Yeats did not Rhyme with States. I spoke it as "Yeets" but I guess it should be "Yates"?
Jos noemt het gewoon melk
Colin Watson@K4mpfie @brianbilston Surnames are often irregular so can be hard even for native speakers, but in this case, yes, "Yates" is the correct pronunciation.
@K4mpfie Yep, that’s right
DoomsdaysCW@brianbilston Poetry has so many uses!
jer"Here is a picture of some text, just in case anyone out there likes pictures but hates text."
@jerrej Thanks for that
BlingoAliAs always, thank you.
And if ever there were a time to attempt to spread this one even further, this feels like it:
https://brianbilston.com/2016/03/23/refugees/
@brianbilston
spdrnl"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand."