National Poem in your Pocket Day
National Poem in your Pocket Day:
Celebrating the joys of poems, the National Poem in Your Pocket Day is celebrated on a day in April, which is also the National Poetry Month.
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Why National Poem in Your Pocket Day?
Poems have always been known as a medium to express your emotions. Be it joy or sadness, the words can express your feelings with ease. You may not be a poet and yet you would be able to appreciate the comfort or the happiness the poem brings to you. There are many celebrations to honor poets and the month of April is also celebrated as the National Poetry month honoring poetry. Poetry comes in all kinds and the National Poem in Your Pocket Day is a celebration of everyday poems, a chance for everyone to enjoy the simplest of the art on any day. This is the reason behind celebrating this day, a way of aspiring the young poets and inspiring many more to indulge in writing poetry.
How can we celebrate the National Poem in Your Pocket Day:
It doesn’t matter how short a poem is, it is known to convey expressions and bring joy. Celebrating the poems that bring you joy, more so when you share with others is quite simple. You can make use of these below tips as you celebrate the National Poem on your Pocket Day.
- With no restrictions nowadays on the rhythm or length of syllables in poetry, you can try writing your poetry now, even if you are a novice.
- Share your poems with your friends and family and know what they think of your poems. Take their honest feedback and try to work it into your works.
- You can also have a get-together with your friends where everyone can share a poem of their own or of their choice. You can have a sitting discussing about everyone’s favorite poet and why they love their work.
- You can give an appreciative poem to anyone, including those who care for you and those who contribute to your daily life.
- The day is about enjoying the shortest poems which means you can simply fit it into any place you want, on the side of a coffee cup, into a bookmark, or any other place you seem fit. You might never know how it can brighten the day for someone who finds it.
- use hashtags #NationalPoemInYourPocketDay and #PoemInYourPocketDay to share your poems.
Interesting facts about National Poem in your Pocket Day
On the National Poem in your Pocket Day, we bring to you some interesting facts about poems in general.
- Short poems are a rage, especially the haiku ones are the most popular.
- The long story in the form of a narrative is the poem generally classified as epic. The longest poem in the world is none other than the Mahabharata, an Indian epic with more than a 1.8million words.
- While April is a month celebrated by the country for honoring poetry, World Poetry Day is celebrated on the 21st of March.
- Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest of the poems to have survived and it originates from Babylon. Of course, poetry itself predates the era when writing was discovered. There has been hunting poetry dating back to the prehistoric era in ancient Egypt and Africa.
- The “Poetical Works” of John Milton from 1852 was bounded with the skin of George Cudmore, a murderer.
- The word “poetry” is derived from “poiesis” in Greek which translates literally to making.
- While a stanza in a poem is said to have 12 lines, a two-line stanza is known as a couplet and a four-line couplet is called a quatrain.
- Poetry is not just a way to express your emotions but it can also be a means to improve your vocabulary.
- The word “muggle” made popular by the Harry Potter series appeared for the first time in a medieval poem by Layamon, dating back to 1275.
History of National Poem in your Pocket Day:
It was since the year 2002 when the National Poem in Your Pocket Day is being celebrated. The day was initiated by the New York Mayor’s office in association with the Departments of Cultural Affairs and Education, New York City. The day is being celebrated and observed by the Academy of American Poets since the year 2008. As you can infer from the name, the day is a celebration of the poem that you can enjoy at all walks of life.