Held every year on 21 March, World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Practiced throughout history – in every culture and on every continent – poetry speaks to our common humanity and our shared values, transforming the simplest of poems into a powerful catalyst for dialogue and peace.

Poetry is a window onto the breath-taking diversity of humanity- Irina Bokova, Director Generals message on World Poetry Day 2017

UNESCO first adopted 21 March as World Poetry Day during its 30th General Conference in Paris in 1999, with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard.

World Poetry Day is the occasion to honour poets, revive oral traditions of poetry recitals, promote the reading, writing and teaching of poetry, foster
the convergence between poetry and other arts such as theatre, dance, music and painting, and raise the visibility of poetry in the media. As poetry continues to bring people together across continents, all are invited to join in.

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/poetry-day


As for me, I will choose the following poems as my best:

Nightfall In Soweto by Oswald Mtshali

Vanity By Biragod Diop

Songs Of Sorrow 1&2 by Kofi Awoonor

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

Ode To A Nightingale by John Keats

To An Athlete Dying Young by A.E. Housman

Add yours....

My best poems are STREAM SIDE EXCHANGE" by J.P. Clark
"TELEPHONE CONVERSATION" BY Wole Soyinka
"I will Pronounce your name"
"The quartets by T,s Elliot"

Buttersss:
My best poems are STREAM SIDE EXCHANGE" by J.P. Clark

"TELEPHONE CONVERSATION" BY Wole Soyinka

"I will Pronounce your name"

"The quartets by T,s Elliot"

Cool. Any poem from JP Clark is usually on point. I just read Soyinka's " Telephone Converaation". It's cool. Do you write poems?

HenryQuest:
Cool. Any poem from JP Clark is usually on point. I just read Soyinka's " Telephone Converaation". It's cool. Do you write poems?

yes I do

Buttersss:

yes I do

That's great. You know poetry is fast going extinct in the lips of today's generation. Maybe I'll get to read your work someday.