Make sure you have a poem in your pocket Thursday the 24th! Share them with your friends, family, teachers and everybody!

It’s so easy…you can have a copy of a poem you wrote, or your favorite poem by someone else.

Here’s a poem that Garrett Crawford chose…what do you think of it? Leave a comment, or post your own poem choice below!

Introduction To Poetry

I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem’s room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author’s name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
~Billy Collins