Scott Edward Anderson's Poetry Blog

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