This is the September 9 entry from a new bumper book of poems for each day in the year.
Contributors range from Spike Milligan to Shakespeare; Abraham Lincoln (a potent four line quote from him as a fifteen-year-old) to Cole Porter; Lord Byron to Lewis Carroll. James Carter’s lines fall into the category of light verse, but they make a good argument none the less!
A poem for Every Day of the Year is edited by Allie Esiri and published by Pan Macmillan (£16.99 hardback). A super buy!
TAKE A POEM
Why not take a poem
wherever you go?
pop it in your pocket
nobody will know
~
Take it to your classroom
stick it on the wall
tell them all about it
read it in the hall
~
Take it to the bathroom
tuck it up in bed
take the time to learn it
keep it in your head
~
Take it for a day trip
take it on a train
fold it as a hat
when it starts to rain
~
Take it to a river
fold it as a boat
pop it in the water
hope that it will float
~
Take it to a hilltop
fold it as a plane
throw it up skywards
time and time again
~
Take it to a post box
send it anywhere
out into the world with
tender
loving
care
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