April 30th, the last day of National Poetry Month, is poem in your pocket day. Our school asked everyone to walk around with a poem in their pocket and share it at will. It was a pretty big success. One of my favorite parts was an email thread that started up amongst the English department. All of the english teachers chortled about their favorite poems and how they were excited to read them to students. Frost, Yeats, Collins and others were discussed over the longest email thread the english department has shared all year long. The discussion inspired me to write a poem:
When I answered I teach English
to the cocktailed woman beside me
she responded,
Oh my- what a noble pursuit
to battle such malleable minds.
As her drink sipped to nothing
I stood with a furrowed brow
silently thinking
No no- I just like talking about
poetry.
I hope you had a good Poem in Your Pocket Day. The poem I kept in my pocket can be found
here.
