We were in New York once a few years ago and saw a sign outside a library
celebrating National Poetry Month and so we wandered in. The place
was packed, full  of people and books upon books of poetry.

They said "hooray for poems" with sparkling cider and cheese and crackers.

I like a month where you can toast an art form with cider, that has a day
(April 18) where you are encouraged to tuck a poem in your pocket or
three or four and pass them around. A month when a poet says start each
morning reading a poem and see what you might wonder.
I'd like to give it a try.

Some poems for a pocket or for a week.

1." Ode to Bird Watching"  by Pablo Neruda
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ode-to-bird-watching/

2. "Moles" by Mary Oliver
http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Mary_Oliver/3109

3. "The Writer" by Richard Wilbur
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15487

4. "Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Return to Vienna"
by Rita Dove
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20618

5.  “The End and the Beginning” by Wislawa Szymborska
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/237694

6. "Song" by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15238

7. "A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16158