What's in your pocket?

It's Poem in Your Pocket Day -- one of my favorite occasions.

The premise is simple:  Select a poem you love and carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, friends, neighbors and strangers (I added the strangers part. The Academy of American Poets, sponsors of this special day, do not officially include strangers in the sharing process, but really, isn't everyone a stranger until they meet the good, pure love of a poem?).

This is a day to savor and share, and I prefer to travel light, with a short but punchy poem. Here's my pick:

And Love Says

And love
says

"I will take care of you,"

To everything that is
near.

- Hafiz
translated by Daniel Ladinsky
 The Gift, poems by Hafiz, The Great Sufi Master

What poem is in your pocket?

Comments

[Eliza]

What a lovely coincidence
Here's mine. :)

The Sun Never Says

Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
A love like that
It lights the Whole Sky.

~ Hafiz, from The Gift

[Shirley]

Perhaps not a poem; but, who's to say?

"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself" Chief Seattle

[drew]

Eliza,
You carry my all-time favorite Hafiz poem. Talk about a prolific poet!

Shirley,
I love Chief Seattle's words. Timeless sentiment.

Thanks for pocketing poems today. And thanks for reading and responding.

[Molly]

Well, now this one is. A day late and a dollar short, but I'm getting used to that.

[drew]

Ha Molly! You're in luck: For poet, every day is poem in your pocket day!