Thread by @TomLondon6

List of my I00 poems for a strange time in lockdown, March to June 2020

1.Celia, Celia by Adrian Mitchell
2.Ode to an Onion by Pablo Neruda
3.No Man is an Island by John Donne
4.A Man May Make a Remark by Emily Dickinson
5.This Room by Imtiaz Dharker

6.Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
7.Eternity by William Blake
8.Leisure by W.H. Davies
9.Only Breath by Rumi
10.These are the Hands by Michael Rosen
11.High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr
12.This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams

13.March the Ninth Twenty Twenty by Mariangela Gualtieri
14.Loveliest of Trees the Cherry Now by A E Housman
15.Vers de Societe by Philip Larkin
16.Manish Tana from Passover Service
17.Ring the bells, Leonard Cohen
18.This Week in Numbers by Nikki Lye

19.“The One” by Patrick Kavanagh
20.The Maori Jesus by James K Baxter
21.Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
22.Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square by Vera Lynn
23.What You Missed That Day You Were Absent From Fourth Grade by Brad Aaron Modlin

24.The Woman in the Moon by Carol Ann Duffy
25.And the Days Are Not Full Enough by Ezra Pound
26.Musee des Beaux Arts by W H Auden
27.You and I by Roger McGough
28.Home by Warsan Shire
29.Zoom! by Simon Armitage
30.Gift by Czeslaw Milosz

31.Leaving Early by Leanne O’Sullivan
32.Gravy by Raymond Carver
33.The King by Fouad Mohammad Fouad
34.Matilda by Hilaire Belloc
35.Earthquake by Ruth Padel
36.Haiku by Paul Ver Bruggen
37. To be Great, be Whole by Fernando Pessoa

38.April is the Cruellest Month, The Wasteland by T S Eliot
39.Idealising the Unattainable can Begin Very Early by Ruth Padel
40.Rest now, e Papatuanuku by Nadine Anne Hura
41.Cast All Your Votes for Dancing by Hafiz
42.A Litany in Time of Plague by Thomas Nashe

43.The Cycle of Life by Sarah Woolf
44.Pessimism is for Lightweights by Salena Godden
45.Why I Am Not a Painter by Frank O’Hara
46.Seen From Above by Wislawa Szymborska
47.Fascism: I sometimes fear… by Michael Rosen
48.Where we are (after Bede) by Stephen Dobyns

49.Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
50.Baby Tortoise by D.H. Lawrence
51.Sent from the Capital to her Elder Daughter by Lady Otomo of Sakanoue
52.Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye
53.Love After Love by Derek Walcott
54.The Good Life by Tracy K Smith

55. Judging Distances by Henry Reed
56.The pandemic is a portal by Arundhati Roy
57.English Girl Eats Her First Mango by John Agard
58.The Republic of Poetry by Martin Espada
59.The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins
60.As I Walked Out One Evening by W.H. Auden

61. Sympathy by Paul Dunbar
62. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
63. I Think that Man is Like a God by Sappho
64. The Makings of Marmalade by Gillian Allnut
65. Shall I compare thee, Sonnet 18 By William Shakespeare
66. Auguries of Innocence by William Blake

67.Dear Lady Otomo by Annee Blott
68.Digging by Seamus Heaney
69.The difference between a bad poet and a good one is luck by Charles Bukowski
70.They Feed They Lions by Philip Levine
71.Slough by John Betjeman
72.Damsel Flies by Nikki Lye

73. Whale Nation by Heathcote Williams
74.In Love’s Shawl by Greg Powell
75.Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
76.Oh Who Is That Young Sinner by A E Housman
77.Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King
78.I’ll Go On by Rainer Maria Rilke

79.Self Portrait, Nude with Steering Wheel by Paul Durcan
80.At the Fishhouses by Elizabeth Bishop
81.These Covid Nights by Karen Rydings
82.Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
83.The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
84.The Summer Day by Mary Oliver

85. A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson
86.The Guitar by Lorca
87.The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T S Eliot
88.“Although the wind” by Izumi Shikibu
89.The Killing of the She-Camel by Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame “Hadrawi”

90.The Passionate Shepherd to his Love by Christopher Marlowe
91.Rembrandt’s Late Self-Portraits by Elizabeth Jennings
92.License Fi Kill by Linton Kwesi Johnson
93.Psalm 23 by King David
94.Late Fragment by Raymond Carver

95.The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter by Li Bai, translated by Ezra Pound
96.Clock-O’-Clay by John Clare
97.Abd el-Hadi Fights a Superpower by Taha Muhammad Ali
98.When I First Came from Nepal by Mukahang Limbu

99.Every Day you Play by Pablo Neruda
100.I Want a Poem by Shukria Rezaei

I acknowledge with many thanks to having shared the brilliant work of many poets, including the following
Imtiaz Dharker, @MichaelRosenYes, Nikki Lye, Carol Ann Duffy, Warsan Shire, Roger McGough cont/

Simon Armitage, @RuthPadel, Sarah Woolf, @salenagodden, Annee Blott, Greg Powell, Paul Van Bruggen, Karen Rydings, Mukahang Limbu @mukki_s1, Shukria Rezaei, @KateClanchy1

THANKS TO ALL THE POETS FOR THE BEAUTY AND THE WISDOM THEY BRING US ALL!