It's (British) National Poetry Day!

Created in 1994, and held every first or second Thursday in October (depending on the year), the purpose of National Poetry Day is to engage citizens throughout the United Kingdom and embrace every aspect, every form, every style of poetry. This can be the epic variety from 500 years ago, or an advertisement jingle from 2015. All that's important is that poetry gets a little love today--to be read, to be appreciated.

Since 1999, every National Poetry Day has had a theme. For 2015, the theme is 'Light.'

Considering this is the United Kingdom's commemorative day, my appreciation today goes to the most obvious of all British writers.


A Fairy Song Poem, by William Shakespeare

Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire!
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon's sphere;
And I serve the Fairy Queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green;
The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours;
In those freckles live their savours;
I must go seek some dewdrops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.