Over 400 poets contributed 800 poems to celebrate Liverpool's 800th year. You can read them all here, just click anywhere on the picture of the Liver Building. Alternatively, you can select poems from a list
Contact: info@poem800.com
Daily Poem
Colours
My mind is so full of colours
pictures to paint and poems to pen.
I watch the sun set over the Mersey
and work quickly with water-colours
streaking red and yellow for the sky
and same colours reflected in the river.
Just simple, not overworked.
The cities parks burst with spring flowers
and I must paint them before they fade
flooding bright yellow for the parchment daffodils
almost transparent in the sun.
Later in the year, vivid poppies.
some in scarlet, some in orange
flapping like butterflies in the breeze.
I walk again by the river,
gulls gliding and diving
and I rest on a bench to pen a poem.
Mary Braithwaite
Future Plans
To we tried to get poem800 published in book form but with 800 poems we couldn't find a publisher, also it was too expensive for us to print ourselves via vanity press so we regret that we have been unable to get it published. But we decided to leave it published on the internet i.e. running with a random poem every day (at our expense) and if anyone has any ideas on how to publish please get in touch.
Finally if If you wish to make a donation to Zoe's place please follow their link below.
Disclaimer:
- All poems are protected by copyright and are not to be reproduced without permission.
- We hold no responsibility for the claimed authorship of poems.
- We will not enter into correspondence about any entry.
Great Links
Pete Price Radio City 10.00 pm Sun - Thursday (read him some poetry!)
Claire Hamilton Arts and Culture Show Sunday 1-4pm Radio Merseyside
SpotlightLancaster
Write Out Loud
Dead Good Poets Society
Magical History Tour
The celebrations for 700 years in 1907
Liverpool Poem 800 is brought to you in association with the North West Disability Arts Forum
Zoe's Place Baby Hospice
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