My sister wrote to remind me that April 30th (tomorrow) is Poem in Your Pocket Day.
Don’t have a poem?
You can download one from the American Academy of Poets site right here
When I taught in a K-8 school, I had a basket of poems for the office counter with a sign, TAKE ONE.
I read a poem a day over the PA for the K-2 morning announcements for the month of April, National Poetry Month.
Sometimes the poem taker would put back the poem they selected in search of one that spoke to them.
Tonight I printed out The Pasture by Robert Frost. Put it in my denim blazer pocket.
When I was in the third grade (1960) I had to memorize and recite it at the end of the year “stepping up” ceremony.
Mary is going to have one of our mother’s favorite- Walt Whitman’s Elegy- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
What poem will you have in your pocket to read and share?
Lovely!
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening and The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost could be good choices.
When I was in high school, I had to memorize William Blake’s
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
This is not a short poem but to this day I remember every word.
Thanks for sharing this “event.” !!!! Going to forward!!!! XOXOX
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What a nice idea!
Trees by Joyce Kilmer – I had to memorize it in 3rd grade. Since it was Earth Day last week I thought it appropriate. “I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree. . . .”
Recently I spent a few days with friends. Together we watched a movie based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe. My memory was triggered and I began reciting his poem “Annabel Lee.” “It was many, and many a year ago in a kingdom by the sea. That a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of Annabel Lee . . .”
What a lovely idea, Ruth. Love the poem. 🙂
Poem in your pocket, I love it! Thank you for sharing, Ruth! 🙂
Thanks Amy. It was a good day at school.
🙂
I second “The Road Not Taken”. I’m also a fan of “If” by Rudyard Kipling.