Today is National Poetry Day and so we’re honoured to publish an original poem by Canada’s greatest living poet, Dr Todd Swift.
When we see
the schoolgirls of Iran
not playing but acting
as unafraid as any tree,
we know that poetry
is an idea whose time
comes in actions
not words alone; standing
up for a thing taller
than beauty, to be heard
and seen, to fan true
flames of history, to grow
a garden, an arbour, green
as every blade of grass,
to bring far fairness to pass.