Today is “Poem in your pocket day”! You didn’t know? Neither did I until about 15 minutes ago when it came up in my twitter feed and I thought I’d check it out. Here’s what I found: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/406
So to honor “Poem in your pocket day” and do dedicate a little more attention to this blog of mine which I really need to start updating more often, I have decided to put up a poem by the wonderful Walt Whitman, which I think speaks to anybody who reads this post. So here it is folks, enjoy it and post a poem on your blog today, or add in in the footer of your email, but let’s appreciate the written (or typed) word a little more….
To A Stranger
“PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me as of a dream,)
I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you,
All is recall’d as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured,
You grew up with me, were a boy with me or a girl with me,
I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my body mine only,
You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you take of my beard, breast, hands, in return,
I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone,
I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
I am to see to it that I do not lose you.”
- Walt Whitman
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