Today is National Poetry Day in the UK. I. Its honour, I decided to add a poem as an extra post.

I wrote a poem for each day of the year, and thought that the one I wrote for October 3rd would be the obvious one. I hoped it would be one of the longer ones, but it’s a tanka. Still, I must go with it. It’s today’s poem, after all.

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Stars

Clear the sky above

The moon has not yet risen

Many stars twinkle

The Milky Way curves above.

Infinity stretched on high.

This is from my One Poem a Day book, July to December.

Last year I wrote one poem each day. It was hard going. I can’t say I didn’t have the occasional lapse, but managed to make up in the next few days.

The poems are very varied. There are tanka and haiku, like this one, lyrical poems, limericks, some rhyming poetry (well, quite a lot, actually) and some non-rhyming. I think there’s something for everyone.

Why not give poetry a chance by reading one a day? Take a look at the books by clicking on the cover in the side bar.

Did you enjoy my tanka? What kind of poetry do you enjoy? Let me know in the comments.