Light
As you may (or may not!) know, I am a poetry Ambassador, appointed by The Forward Arts Foundation.
The theme for this year’s National Poetry Day is Light which I’m sure will ‘spark’ many a beautiful poem from the imaginations of all the wonderfully talented poets in the UK!
So why is there a picture of a gorgeous Indigo Bunting, taken by Chris Bowman, at the top of this post?
One of the many initiatives this year is to have a bunting workshop at Hampton Court, during which lines of poems about light will be sewn on consecutive flags, with ribbons between – how fabulous is that? One of mine will be sewn or printed onto the flags and I can’t wait to see it.
The date for this year’s National Poetry Day is October 8th, and in the run up to the day I will be Tweeting, and blogging madly all about it!
Light as Birds
Birds see invisible
in-betweens
of every green
and red with blue,
they see UV,
a secret universe
of hue,
no wonder birdsong
overflows,
dizzy with blues
of sky.
Bird – is your song
of colour trails?
Is the air,
as you fly?
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- Tagged: birds,, Bunting, flags, Forward Arts Foundation, light, National Poetry Day, poetry, science, Science facts, UV
lizbrownlee - poet 
one of my favourite poems of yours Liz
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Oh, thank you, Sue.
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Beautiful poem, Liz and what a glorious colour that bunting is.
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