April 18 is Poem in
Your Pocket Day.
People are encouraged
to carry poems in their pocket to share with friends and family throughout the
day.
I read about the
event at www.poets.org, a
website sponsored by the Academy of American Poets.
This will be my first
year participating.
To prepare, I’ve been
searching for a poem that makes me happy. But as I’m looking at tomorrow’s
schedule, I’ve decided that I also want to find poems that will make other
people happy.
I’ll need a
children’s poem about music for my son’s band carpool; an inspirational poem
for my Faithbook scrapbook club; maybe a poem about butterflies for my
sister, baseball for my sons and cooking for my friend. I’ll put a poem or two
in the mail today for my mom and dad to receive. I also can send poetry by
email to a few close friends.
What I like about
this holiday is that poetry is easy to find, and it’s free. I can share my own original
poems or choose verses written by someone else.
The biggest obstacle tomorrow
will not be the search for poems. It will be finding an outfit with big enough pockets. I may have to fudge a little and celebrate "Poem in Your Pocketbook" instead.
-- cawk
What a great idea! Maybe you can email a poem to your writer friends ;)
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