This is a poem called Snow Drops by the brilliant Louise Gluck. The best poem about recovery. The last line blows me away. #WorldPoetryDay pic.twitter.com/5dhgaGtqK5
— Matt Haig (@matthaig1) March 21, 2018
“I know I am dying
But why not keep flowering
As long as I can
From my cut stem?”Helen Dunmore, 1952-2017.
I bear witness to her extraordinary words every day at work as a palliative care doctor 💕#WorldPoetryDay pic.twitter.com/obIyWF2j7j
— Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) March 21, 2018
Held every year on 21st March, World #Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity.
Learn more https://t.co/nDVR7JiC2b via @UNESCO pic.twitter.com/pMa2BnZcUc
— UN Geneva (@UNGeneva) March 21, 2018
#WorldPoetryDay | ‘There is my Soul’ by an #Auschwitz survivor Halina Birenbaum (b. 1929, https://t.co/CAtiVB4uNB) pic.twitter.com/epPwAqjkB0
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) March 21, 2018