April is National Poetry Month, and I know that many of you have favorite poems that you enjoy sharing with others. The Academy of American Poets (http://www.poets.org/) is promoting "Poem in Your Pocket Day" on April 17. The idea is simple; choose a poem that you love and carry it with you on April 17 to share with friends, family, and co-workers. The web site also features other ideas for celebrating and sharing poetry:
Here are some ideas of how you might get involved: (from http://www.poets.org/)
- Start a "poems for pockets" give-a-way in your school or workplace
- Urge local businesses to offer discounts for those carrying poems
- Post pocket-sized verses in public places
- Handwrite some lines on the back of your business cards
- Start a street team to pass out poems in your community
- Distribute bookmarks with your favorite immortal lines
- Add a poem to your email footer
- Post a poem on your blog or social networking page
- Project a poem on a wall, inside or out
- Text a poem to friends
Do you have a favorite poem? Do you have lines that you have committed to memory or that really "speak to you"?
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Thanks Steve~
My favorite poem is by Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.