World Poetry Day — 21st March

Appreciating poets and poetry via W9 prompt

Hello Paper Poetry writers,

Celebration time!! 🎉

As per UNESCO’s decree, 21st March is World Poetry Day.

UNESCO first adopted 21 March as World Poetry Day during its 30th General Conference in Paris in 1999, with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard.

World Poetry Day is an occasion to honor poets, revive oral traditions of poetry recitals, promote the reading, writing and teaching of poetry, foster the convergence between poetry and other arts such as theatre, dance, music and painting, and raise the visibility of poetry in the media.

As poetry continues to bring people together across continents, all are invited to join in. ~ Unesco.org

Poetry has been an ardent expression of emotions for thousands and thousands of years. When poetry was not written, it was sung, drawn, hymned on cave walls and tablets.

Poets were highly revered in courts and on the streets. However, scribes and bards were the most relied upon messengers as they captured the attention and hearts of the masses.

Since time immemorial, poets have been ruling the roost, making the world dance to their soulful, thoughtful, playful tunes.

And we do that each week with the stunning array of responses we receive for our weekly prompts. This past week has been no exception. So let’s take a look.

Ekphrastic Prompt Responses

We’ve just wrapped up the W8 prompt. Carolyn Hastings lovingly invited you all to respond to a heart-shaped wall art prompt, and excitement ran through our beings, relishing every submission. The aesthetic art and the heart were a reader’s delight.

Let’s check the lineup of what our poets crafted out of the heart-shaped wall art. Please support their outstanding contributions with reads, claps, and highlights. 🙌

👉My Wooden Heart ~ Raine Lore 👉Prompt to The Heart ~ Lilie Kaizen 👉Chimed Notes in Her Heart ~ Carolyn Hastings 👉My Heart, I Dare You To Sing Forgiveness Again ~ Gloria D. Gonsalves 👉Heart-shaped and Full ~ Dennett 👉Lost Chirp Inside An Wallpaper ~ Suntonu Bhadra 👉Fixture ~ Dr. Fatima Imam

PaperPoetry sincerely thanks Raine, Lilie, Carolyn, Gloria, Dennett, Suntonu, and Dr. Fatima for contributing to our W8 Ekphrastic prompt. 🙏

We appreciate all our readers, too, for showering your love and time on the above pearls of poetry. 👋

As we continue to celebrate poets and their poems, let’s make it grander. After all, it is a festival for poets, of the poets, and by the poets. 💖

World Poetry Day acknowledges and appreciates poetry and the roles poets play in inspiring our thoughts now and through the ages.

Week 9 Prompt

Ladies and gentlemen, to celebrate World Poetry Day, to mark our respect and love for poetry, Paper Poetry brings for you another prompt.

Epigraphic prompt: An epigraph is a quote, phrase, or paragraph that appears at the beginning of a write-up. Epigraphs are generally short quotations from an existing work. Epigraphs appear in quotation marks(“…”) at the beginning of a text.

Quote:

“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say .” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

All you have to do is write about what this quote means to you in the context of poetry. It could be what poetry means to you, or it could be to honor another poet and/or their poetry. Then, simply use the above quote as an epigraph at the start of your piece.

Form: Poetry, prose.

Theme: the role of poetry — World Poetry Day.

Line Limit: Claim your creative liberties. Let your words flow limitlessly.

Title/subtitle/kicker: your choice but should relate to the prompt and theme in some way.

Tags: please use ‘W9 Prompt’ — ‘Epigraphic Poem’ — ‘World Poetry Day’ tags when submitting your poem.

Image: one image only Please note: your image must incorporate a handwritten/handcrafted element in either paper or digital format following Paper Poetry’s submission guidelines.

Submission period: Sunday, March 20 (UTC-10hrs, the Cook Islands 12:00 am) — closing Friday, March 25 (UTC-10hrs, Cook Islands 11:59 pm)

New writers are most welcome to participate in the prompt. In the comments below, please request to be added as a writer and include your Medium @ handle; or email us at [email protected]

The next weekly poetry prompt announcement will be on Saturday, March 26 (UTC-10hrs, Cook Islands 12:00 am)

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Let’s celebrate poetry day, 21st March.

Indubala

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