Celebrate poetry today by carrying a poem in your pocket
Today, Poem in Your Pocket Day, is the day people who love poetry are carrying a poem in their pockets to share with others.
You can also share your poem selection on Twitter by using the hashtag #pocketpoem.
Below are two of my favorites.
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Spring Storm by William Carlos Williams
The sky has given over
its bitterness.
Out of the dark change
all day long
rain falls and falls
as if it would never end.
Still the snow keeps
its hold on the ground.
But water, water
from a thousand runnels!
It collects swiftly,
dappled with black
cuts a way for itself
through green ice in the gutters.
Drop after drop it falls
from the withered grass-stems
of the overhanging embankment.
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