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Laura · @LauraSaintChevalier

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‘If ever there were a spring day so perfect…
that you felt like taking

a hammer to the glass paperweight
on the living room end table,

releasing the inhabitants
from their snow-covered cottage

so they could walk out,
holding hands and squinting

into this larger dome of blue and white,
well, today is just that kind of day’

(excerpt from ‘Today’ by Billy Collins)

#spring #flowers #garden #crocus #snowdrop #nature #springtime #flower #poetry #poem #poet #BillyCollins

#billycollins #poet #poem #poetry #flower #springtime #nature #snowdrop #crocus #garden #flowers #spring

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Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅ · @mckra1g

1743 followers · 2370 posts · Server mastodon.social

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One of my favorite poems. I got to meet Billy Collins at the Poetry Foundation when they built their new offices at Dearborn & Superior. I’ve copied a fantastic YouTube clip of a 3 y/o reciting this poem in the replies.

Litany, Billy Collins

https://allpoetry.com/poem/9742291-Litany-by-Billy-Collins

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🍞🍷

#poetry #bread #wine #poem #BillyCollins #AmReading #GoodNight

#poetry #bread #wine #poem #billycollins #amreading #goodnight

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· @MrOkra

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Poetry Magazine - Old Man Eating Alone in a Chinese Restaurant by… | Poetry Magazine

Take a minute, 3 or 20. Enjoy the meal between paragraphs or chapters too... thank you #BillyCollins
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49667/old-man-eating-alone-in-a-chinese-restaurant

#billycollins

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Tsead Bruinja · @tseadbruinja

134 followers · 84 posts · Server mastodon.nl

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RT @De_Taalstaat@twitter.com

Iedere schooldag beginnen met een gedicht uit de speakers om jongeren (weer) te laten genieten van poëzie. Dat lijkt Kees van Kooten óók een goed idee. Hij zou beginnen met dit gedicht:

#BillyCollins #poetry180

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/De_Taalstaat/status/1614960825701224448

#poetry180 #billycollins

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Tucker Teague · @tuckerteague

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#BillyCollins reads one of his #poems for us.

I love how playful #poetry can be and the wonderful way Collins brings that out with his deadpan humor.

https://youtu.be/56Iq3PbSWZY

#billycollins #poems #poetry

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Harry Watson · @Thebestisyettocome

163 followers · 909 posts · Server mas.to

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Billy Collin’s brilliant poem on writer’s block, ‘Winter Syntax’

A sentence starts out like a lone traveler
heading into a blizzard at midnight,
tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face,
the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him...

#Poetry #Writing #BillyCollins

#billycollins #writing #poetry

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Martin Zierold · @MZierold

172 followers · 15 posts · Server vis.social

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My 2023 calendar has arrived - and, even better: a new collection of poems by #BillyCollins. #poetry

#poetry #billycollins

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Lars Holgersson 🎶 · @larsibacken

357 followers · 1653 posts · Server mastodon.nu

YouTube - Walking Across the Atlantic

@poetsread
#poetry #poetryreading #poetsread #BillyCollins
Walking Across the Atlantic

I wait for the holiday crowd to clear the beach
before stepping onto the first wave
Soon I am walking across the Atlantic
thinking about Spain
checking for whales waterspouts
I feel the water holding up my shifting weight
Tonight I will sleep on its rocking surface
But for now I try to imagine what
this must look like to the fish below,
the bottoms of my feet appearing, disappearing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADCIXAjxe0M

#billycollins #poetsread #poetryreading #poetry

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