Thursday, April 26, 2012

Poem in Your Pocket



Today is Poem in Your Pocket day, and I'll hold a copy of Langston Hughes Catch this year. If someone asks, I'll pull it out and read it aloud; otherwise, it'll sit there and sing itself.

CATCH

Big Boy came
Carrying a mermaid
On his shoulders
And the mermaid
Had her tail
Curved 
Beneath his arm


Being a fisher boy,
He'd found a fish
To carry --
Half fish,
Half girl
To marry.


Langston Hughes

9 comments:

  1. it sings beautifully.

    what a lovely photo of your sweet Sophie. Just beautiful.

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  2. Beautiful. My favorite Hughes' poem is "Mother To Son". I've never heard of this poem in your pocket day, but I love the thought: they will sing themselves.

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  3. simply breathtaking in so many ways

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  4. Sometimes there just isn't anything to add you know?

    xoxo

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  5. So lovely. If I happen to run into you, I'll ask for a reading, okay? xo

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