These 12 National Poetry Day efforts go from bard to verse
It’s National Poetry Day and the internet has joined in with the celebration of all things poetic, whether rhyming or otherwise. We should really be writing this in couplets, but we’ve decided to leave that sort of thing up to the clever lot on Twitter who came up with these:
1.
https://twitter.com/DadsPuns/status/1047732257434361856
2.
The key to writing
Poetry
Is to put
The
Words on different
Lines
So they seem
Profound
And cover up your
Incompetency#NationalPoetryDay— innocent drinks (@innocent) October 4, 2018
3.
https://twitter.com/LeosDiaries/status/1047748822884110336
4.
Haikus are easy
Just get the right syllables
Brexit is an easily avoidable mistake that is going to ruin this country for decades through division and hatred let's just sod it off for the sake of fuck#NationalPoetryDay— TechnicallyRon (On all the platforms) (@TechnicallyRon) October 4, 2018
5.
https://twitter.com/weehalfpintt/status/1047801383137828864
6.
https://twitter.com/HMCabinetCat/status/1047792557042913280
7.
https://twitter.com/Bruntyonabike/status/1047785803987005440
8.
https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1047771621350690816
9.
https://twitter.com/davidschneider/status/1047786711139405824
9.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I love the word cunt
I hope you do too #NationalPoetryDay— Our Rach (@ourrachblogs) October 4, 2018
10.
https://twitter.com/davechannel/status/1047756059107102721
11.
https://twitter.com/IAmMardikins/status/1047774767095472130
12. Sadly, some poems were never meant to be.
I wanted to write a poem about myself, but nothing rhymes with squirrel.
#NationalPoetryDay pic.twitter.com/DqnP1DtlGL
— Tufty the Red Squirrel (@RedTufty) October 4, 2018
It wouldn’t be National Poetry Day if we didn’t read something from poet Brian Bilston.
Here's a lightbulb poem for #NationalPoetryDay pic.twitter.com/wxhX8DRW8K
— Brian Bilston (@brian_bilston) October 8, 2015
Roses are red,
Tulips are orange.
Poetry’s hard.
I didn’t think this through.