Poem in Your Pocket Day

Tomorrow is the first national Poem in Your Pocket Day (New York City has been celebrating it since 2002).  I love this idea in theory, and will put a poem (TDB) in my pocket before I take the kids the school in the morning, but will I read it to anyone?  Probably not.  Wait--the kids!  I'll read it to them, and send them off with poems in their pockets, too (maybe Milly could memorize a short one).

If you're looking for a poem for your pocket, check out these pocket-sized Poem PDFs, some poems about pockets (love this idea, too), or just browse poets.org.  It is National Poetry Month, you know.

Comments

[mad]

So what poem did you finally end up using???? I went with The Walrus and the Carpenter -- not quite pocket-sized. I trimmed it down to just the "Cabbages and Kings" verse. (That's the one Harriet memorized in Harriet the Spy and I have loved it ever since. I was mortified when I read the whole thing years later and learned the fate of the oysters.)

[Anamaria]

What a great choice! I love the backstory, too (Harriet memorized it?). In case anyone doesn't remember what happened to the oysters, here's the full text of the poem, from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass:

"The Walrus and the Carpenter"

Warning: Very sad (for the oysters). I'll post my pocket poem (also an excerpt; what does that say about us?) tomorrow for Poetry Friday.