Thursday is Poem in your Pocket Day! Carry a favorite poem all day and share it with your friends. How many poems can you recite from memory?
This may let you know how old I am - not that I keep it a secret - but when I was in grade school, our classes had something called "Poem Study" almost every week. We learned old standards, like Joyce Kilmer's "Trees" - (I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree..) and didactic poems designed to teach us values. I particularly enjoyed the poems of James Whitcomb Riley.
I cannot remember any of these poems in entirety, just snippets here and there. And, my meory, alas, is not sharp enough to start memorizing today. Still I have a score of favorite poems and will have to pick one to carry around on Thursday.
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