In the UK, it's national poetry day,
The one day of the year when I can legally say,
I wrote some poems and put them in a book,
They're all here, if you want to take a look.

therearehats.com

#NationalPoetryDay

1/10
And now...

The poem of the day.

Entitled...

## That's Unbelievable

2/10
Some people say, "That's unbelievable"
About a thing that's quite achievable.

They mean they simply "can't imagine"
And that can be solved by taking action.

3/10
When we use our imagination,
Our dreams never go into stagnation.

Our hopes won't slip into hibernation.
They instead become our future foundation.

4/10
To build something no-one else has ever seen.
Except perhaps within a dream.

For them it was a glance in passing.
A moment fleeting, a shadow dashing.

5/10
For us it was it was forever lasting.
An idea forming and details blasting.

That thing that was before unreasonable,
Now becomes a thing quite teachable.

6/10
That thing that once was ours alone.
Can now be shared, and now be shown.

And when we help our imagination grow,
Where it will take us, we can't know.

7/10
Until we get there, then we'll see,
We've constructed a better reality.

Because that thing, once unbelieved,
Is now a thing we have achieved.

___

8/10
Many more poems can be found
In "There are Hats". The paper bound
book where verse outpours
and opens tiny imagination doors.

(it has illustrations too)

smudgebase.com/2021/10/06/nat…

9/10
PS: I wasn't kidding about the illustrations

smudgebase.com/therearehats/

10/10

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