Happy Birthday, Every Day Poems!
Twelve years ago today, Every Day Poems was born.
Says L.L. Barkat, who began Every Day Poems:
I dreamed of a very special inbox publication unlike anything else out there.
I wanted to read poems with heart and soul. Poems that would bring peace and insight. Good poems. Great poems! Alongside inspiring art and photography.
And I wanted to bring attention to what was beautiful. The poems didn’t need to be new. Just fitting. Just make-your-day. Or, make-your-life.
Barkat did just that, by starting Every Day Poems.
For twelve years now, Every Day Poems has been bringing poems to readers who inspire their mornings (and their lives) with poetry.
But, as with everything, times change. Needs change.
So, after twelve years on the MailChimp platform, and in order to keep the poems coming, Every Day Poems recently went in search of a more fitting & sustainable poetry home. That home is Substack.
The new platform allows readers to…
• keep their poems coming, with options to be weekly (free) or daily (paid)
• easily like, share, or comment on the poems in a subscriber-only community space
• help poets & presses continue to receive vital chances to have their work discovered and enjoyed. Such chances are especially hard for poets whose poems and collections are older—because, unlike Every Day Poems, most other publications will not feature their poems
Make Your Day (Or Your Life)?
If you’re not already an Every Day Poems subscriber, you can sign up as either a free or paid subscriber, via Substack.
That would be a great birthday gift to Every Day Poems. And we hope, in return, the poems would be a great gift to you.
Celebrate with Poetry: Birthday Prompt
Write a poem that wishes someone or something a happy birthday; it could be you or a loved-one. It could be a pet. It could be a beloved place or object. (Of course, you could also write a birthday poem to Every Day Poems if you wish!) Include any of the usual birthday suspects: cake, candles, wishes, gifts. Or include something about birthstones. Or something entirely unexpected. Your choice!
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hannah B says
Another Year Around The Sun
Balloons dancing lightly in the wind,
strings twining, twirling.
A kite waltzing against the bluest sky.
Little flames balanced
Atop slender wands of wax..
Wisps of smoke pirouette
and rise up and
up and ever upward.
The laughter of children ringing,
weaving, circling, lifting
leaves. Lifting, turning,
spinning in delight. A world awhirl
with happiness. To make you turn
and say: ‘I’ve been here before.’
L.L. Barkat says
hannah, I love your birthday poem! Especially the part at the end about the turn and ‘I’ve been here before.’
Thanks for sharing your poem today, on Every Day Poems’ birthday!!! 🙂
Sandra Heska King says
How fun, Hannah! I love the vision of a kite waltzing against the bluest sky.
Sandra Heska King says
3120
Five a week
times 52 weeks
times 12 years.
That’s a lot of poems!
And a candle for every poem
is a lot of candles!
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Math is not my strong suit. At any rate…
Happy, happy birthday, Every Day Poems! I’m so glad you were born! xo
L.L. Barkat says
This is so fun, Sandra!!! 🙂
I do wonder how big a cake we would need for every poem-candle!!!? (Where’s our math-y Monica Silva, to help us figure this out? 🙂 )
Monica Silva says
Need the cake to be only about 4% as big as this one!
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2016/12/video-record-blasted-as-72-585-candles-burn-on-one-birthday-cake-453929
Jody Collins says
Twelve Years Old Looks Good on You
If we were coffee mates, I’d tweak your
cheek across the table, remark at how
quickly time has flown ((trite, but true))
and marvel at the beauty you’ve become.
Every day a poem–a recipe for growth
soul-deep, under the skin, where life is.
Words baked with joy stir my
soul, a layer cake of delight, perfect
with coffee and poetry and you.
L.L. Barkat says
What a lovely, fun poem, Jody. 🙂
I’m especially enjoying “a layer cake of delight.”
Thanks for sharing in the celebration!
Sandra Heska King says
“coffee-mates”
I see what you did there, Jody. 🙂