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Happy Poem in Your Pocket Day!

Added on by Ellen Halloran.

April is National Poetry Month and April 18th is Poem in Your Pocket Day.  It's a day to carry a poem with you and share it with friends, family, classmates, and co-workers.  Here's my pick for 2013.​

DESIGN

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,​

On a white heal-all, holding up a moth

Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth --​

Assorted characters of death and blight

Mixed ready to begin the morning right,​

Like the ingredients of a witches' broth --​

A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,​

And dead wings carried like a paper kite.​

What had that flower to do with being white,​

The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?​

What brought the kindred spider to that height,​

Then steered the white moth thither in the night ?​

What but design of darkness to appall? --​

If design governs in a thing so small.​

​Robert Frost   1874 - 1963