https://poets.org/national-poetry-month/poem-your-pocket-day I started doing this in 2012 and it's always fun (for me, anyway)
I shall dance no more with rhythmless guilty feet. The saxophone played. George Michael’s “Careless Whisp… Will haunt us all forever.
This zombie nation Always glued to our smartphones Doesn’t make us smart
Your poetry book from 1946 was recently acquired by me at a book fair in Chicago. It appears to have been lightly us… during its first go-round
Red America Visiting you this weekend Could never live here
The monarchy seems very stuffy Not at all like the masses they se… Perhaps they could do with a more… From further down on the great soc… I already know one King Chuck
The path of life is never smooth, or direct, or free from detours
My Grandpa was Irish Or at least his parents were So every year we went to Grandma and Grandpa’s house for corned beef and cabbage.
May everyone have, at least once in their lifetime, an experience where they are drivi… or riding in a car that they like
The band’s ferry got stuck in a sa… on their way to New York City on an April day in 1954 when music was changed forever. By the time Bill Haley and his C…
Life keeps on going taking many twists and turns until it’s over
A 17 year-old grabbed a weapon of war and traveled to a scene of urban mayhem. Should we really
A limerick is a snappy rhyme That doesn’t take up too much time Make Line 3 sound like Line 4 And then just add one more The result is a poem sublime
Friday the 13th Is it a day for bad luck? We’ll know soon enough!
American governance is only as str… As our ability to defend it. And if (or when) it goes away We won’t ever get it back.
Gary Paulsen’s written legacy wou… without the librarian who took an… and gave him the library card that… Paulsen authored hundreds of books… which sold millions of copies