World Poetry Day & Dialogue
missed you One day you will

every day, but we're - Southern
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by famous poets. if i were a duck
the rest of the world fades. Thick

cloaked in fog The world seems empty
on the face of the world. - by Dotty

21st at the invitation - Literature
March 21 at 7:30, Globe Bookstore

War. The world stands on the brink
by Dr. Ibrahim Elbadawi, World Bank

flourishing, this day could provide
Yahoo. March - Mystical World Wide

Vagrant over desert sands, Brooding
other stores recommend: The Breaking

farther worlds pretend you don't tear
Although this is a familiar

closes at midnight on - On the day
recommend: The Breaking of the Day

of The Read In!, the oldest students
and all the world held its

See also: http://boynton.blogspot.com/2003_03_16_boynton_archive.html#91116746

Boynton writes: Late in the evening of Friday 21st March, I read on a blog that the UNESCO "World Poetry Day" was about to close, and I had missed it. Of course the day was just beginning in the northern hemisphere. (The new cyber geography of the web and the blogosphere still has to contend with the date line.) The ironies were immediately striking. Of poetry and war coinciding, of global bodies designating days and declaring deadlines, of language being conscripted into combat, of brinkmanship and beyond, a time of global crisis and the consciousness of this.
A googlepoem seemed the most appropriate way of marking this day as it washed across the troubled world.
If the web is a giant brain and Google is its thoughts then the Googlepoem is a tracing of this international neuron activity. As I wrote in my comments : it reflects that spinning global brain of the search engine, with all its fragments of inconsistency.
I wrote several 8 line couplets on the theme with various titles, eg World Poetry Day closes, World Poetry day I missed it, whoops etc. and then edited the results.