April 14: Poem in your pocket day!

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Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:49 am

Snoink says... · Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:49 am

Today (April 14) is Poem in your pocket day! Anyway, what poem will you be carrying in your pocket to share with random strangers?

Or, if it's not April 14, what poem did you have or what poem would you have in your pocket?

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Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:57 am

Lava says... · Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:57 am

I have never heard of this.

But the first poet I read (and loved) would be Robert Frost.
So yeah his.

Or this other poem I enjoyed which I stumbled on to looking for Frost's would be Ozymandias by someone I don't remember.

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Thu Apr 14, 2011 12:48 pm

tinny says... · Thu Apr 14, 2011 12:48 pm

I don't expect to bump into any strangers today, but might go and persuade all of my friends to read This is Just to say by William Carlos Williams.

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Thu Apr 14, 2011 3:45 pm

ehte92 says... · Thu Apr 14, 2011 3:45 pm

I would like to share The Cloud by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

It was the poem that inspired me to write poems.

And I would ask everyone on YWS to read it too. I guess many of you have read it already. And those of you who haven't. Here it is.

Are you living for the things you are praying for?

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Thu Apr 14, 2011 3:56 pm

MeanMrMustard says... · Thu Apr 14, 2011 3:56 pm

Lava wrote:Or this other poem I enjoyed which I stumbled on to looking for Frost's would be Ozymandias by someone I don't remember.

Shelley's "King of Kings" poem?

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Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:18 pm

Lava says... · Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:18 pm

MeanMrMustard wrote:
Lava wrote:Or this other poem I enjoyed which I stumbled on to looking for Frost's would be Ozymandias by someone I don't remember.

Shelley's "King of Kings" poem?

King of Kings, yes.
So, it's Shelley's then.

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Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:20 pm

Caligula's Launderette says... · Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:20 pm

It would be either Ozymandias by PB Shelley or Aedh Wishes For The Clothes Of Heaven by W.B. Yeats.

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