We Almost Missed it!
Today – Thursday, April 20th – is Poem in Your Pocket Day! We almost missed it! If you go to this Poets.org page you can download pocket-sized poems to print. Apparently cities and libraries all over the country are hosting special events, but the main idea is to keep a poem in your pocket and share it with people you meet all day long. Tell me your day would not be seriously better if the person in line in front of you at the grocery story pulled a poem out of his pocket and said, “Would like to hear some poetry?”
I have some favorite poetry, from the Bible and from other sources, but I will admit that my not-quite-literary favorite right now is in Macy’s bedtime book, This is the Sunflower by Lola M. Shaefer. It begins like this:
This is the sunflower
tall and bright
that stands in my garden
day and night.
Our favorite part is this:
these are the birds
full of song
that crack the seeds
black and brown
found in the blossom
yellow and round
that crowns the sunflower
tall and bright
that stands in my garden
day and night
The poem in this book rocks back and forth like the chair we sit in every night. By the time we get to the end, I’m ready for bed too. (I was also inspired to create a sunflower fort in our backyard garden this summer . . . more on that later!)
Share some poetry today if you get a chance!
Man, I wish I’d known about it this morning! I got nothing. I enjoyed yours though.
She is full of life and beauty,
My son could see she was a cutey;
Marrying her would be an honorable duty,
How could he miss with such inward beauty!
My poetic grace (or not) needs some serious work!
This poem sounds like something fun to put instruments to…Like the poem “Bringing the Rain to Kapit Plain.” I love stuff like that…and look at me…of course I am putting music and instruments to something. ha