It’s like having all of your birthdays on the same day. #Poetry #BillyCollins

- #gedichtendag #poetry #BillyCollins #Litany

1/2 Billy Collins - Litany

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56Iq3PbSWZY

Today's poem:

Forgetfulness
- by Billy Collins

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/750092019663306752/forgetfulness?source=share

#BillyCollins #poetry #forgetfulness #OldAge #memory #presence #moment #relevance

But if something really does flash before your eyes
as you go under, it will probably be a fish

Ooteoote-serie Poetry in motion, 453: Billy Collins, The art of drowning
https://bit.ly/PIM453-collins
#poëzie #animatie #BillyCollins #verdrinken #flits

Today's poem:

Canada
- by Billy Collins

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/731053791882969088/canada?source=share&ref=_tumblr

#canada #evocation #BillyCollins #nation #narrative #understanding #summation #ideal #childhood #identity

#BillyCollins reads one of his #poems for us.

I love how playful #poetry can be and the wonderful way Collins brings that out with his deadpan humor.

https://youtu.be/56Iq3PbSWZY

My 2023 calendar has arrived - and, even better: a new collection of poems by #BillyCollins. #poetry

@poetsread
#poetry #poetryreading #poetsread #BillyCollins
Walking Across the Atlantic

I wait for the holiday crowd to clear the beach
before stepping onto the first wave
Soon I am walking across the Atlantic
thinking about Spain
checking for whales waterspouts
I feel the water holding up my shifting weight
Tonight I will sleep on its rocking surface
But for now I try to imagine what
this must look like to the fish below,
the bottoms of my feet appearing, disappearing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADCIXAjxe0M