National Poetry Day

Today is National Poetry Day as well as Red Nose Day.

Poems are stories that can have an impact on us as much as any novel or movie. Around the library are poems that have touched the lives of some of our teaching staff. I invite you to come in and read the poems and how they had an impact. Perhaps you could share a poem that you enjoyed or is special to you with someone else today.

Doggy thoughts

Two poems about what dogs probably think...

(Source: TED talks - Billy Collins)

Our dog has since passed on. She was an adorable Rhodesian Ridgeback cross. I often used to wonder what she was thinking, and especially what she was dreaming about when she twitched and yelped in her sleep. I would be gobsmacked if she thought the things that I heard in the second poem. I've witnessed cats that are capable of such disdain. What personality does your pet have? Feel inspired to write your own poem?

If I should have a daughter...

The first video is by Sarah Kay, a creative and inspirational woman. She is well-known for her spoken word poetry, Hands is the name of the poem in the second video.

The first video is titled If I had a daughter..  which TED Talks describes as 'the story of her metamorphosis -- from a wide-eyed teenager soaking in verse at New York's Bowery Poetry Club to a teacher connecting kids with the power of self-expression through Project V.O.I.C.E' 

Enjoy

Source: TED talk - Sarah Kay

Source: Def Poetry - Sarah Kay