Today, is pocket poetry day. Carry your favorite poem around in you pocket and share! I was unprepared and have too many beloved poems to even begin to choose just one. Instead, I came across this one just today. It reminds me of something I’m practicing daily: “Never miss an opportunity to shut the f*ck up.” (via @andresmarin22 on an episode of the @enormocast). #Repost @onbeing with @get_repost ・・・ To sit with Marilyn Nelson is to gain a newly spacious perspective on the practice of “communal pondering” that poetry can inspire. In this poem, she captures the dynamic possibilities of conversation. “Poetry consists of words and phrases and sentences that emerge like something coming out of water. They emerge before us, and they call up something in us. But then they turn us back into our own silence,” she says in her On Being interview. Links to this poem and her On Being episode in bio. Illustration by the talented @katieskau – #nationalpoetrymonth #npm #onbeing #marilynnelson #poet #poetsofinstagram #poetry #instagood #instadaily #poem #poets #perspective #wisdom #wordsthatmatter #ponder #pondering #possibility #conversation #words #phrases #quotes #illustration #artwork #illustratedpoetry #emergence https://www.instagram.com/p/BwbKBDuDMzGLcU7AZsc0qyrhEL01Z2BkIRSYAI0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qr3mntpvwqtm
