Reposted by Brian Bilston
National Poetry Day
1. John Hegley: Glad to Wear Glasses (1990)
Mostly poems about dogs and (reading) glasses - and all the better for it!
A lovely collection.
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![[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:
comm n pr ble whe writin p ems
in the shape of decid o s trees
is t at once t ere ar ives
the fir t sti rings of he new aut mn breeze,
he oems will begi to shake hemselves ge tly
ntil their letters loos n like leaves,
an they d start to float down
then
[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]
turntomushuponthegroun
[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3hptt3d3jvwahhnl3jvsycc2/bafkreihnclv63ugflspajhq3vwh5tw4kt4tvix7oacor266s4dqmgjxkzm)
![[image description: a poem embedded in an Excel spreadsheet with the words contained within individual cells. Line 3 has words in a single merged cell. Line 4 has text wrapping applied. Line 8 has filters applied to each word]
Love Excels
Let’s spread ourselves on sheets of love
and turn our data into poetry.
Our cells shall merge themselves together
As you wrap your text around me.
Our sum is greater than our parts,
let’s crunch our figures without compunction.
Remove this filter from my heart –
you give me form and function.
We shall frolic among the formulae,
pivot our tables now and often.
I will total all your rows
and you can add my column.
Brian Bilston](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3hptt3d3jvwahhnl3jvsycc2/bafkreiaa4kywxfiv3gdsj66zt6tuoja2kjwhi6tctwayydltiq54if6wmu)
