30 Poems for National Poetry Month: Day 18
April 18, 2013
Here is my poem for Day 18 of National Poetry Month, which is also “Poem in Your Pocket Day”:
Is that a poem in your pocket
Or are you just happy to be
Alive and kicking in the teeth
Of the cruel world just by
Your very existence?
The world needs poetry
If only to make sense
Of the senseless, put words
To what can’t be explained,
And say the unsayable.
Me? I carry my poem
Wherever I go and bring
It out to give it to you.
–Scott Edward Anderson
Scott Edward Anderson
Scott Edward Anderson's Poetry Blog 
April 18, 2013 at 12:25 pm
Caught it…. Put it in my pocket and taking it to Cuba to disperse….. Xoxo
Sent from my iPhone
April 18, 2013 at 12:45 pm
Viva la poesía!
XO
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April 22, 2013 at 6:43 pm
I have no idea why, but I think it would’ve been funny if you said “Is that a poem in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
April 26, 2013 at 9:29 am
That was definitely what I was going for, without actually saying it… 😉
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