You may know that April is National Poetry Month, but did you know that 2021 is the twenty-fifth anniversary of this annual celebration?<\/p>\n
Today, Thursday April 29, is \u201cPoem in Your Pocket\u201d Day. The Academy of American Poets encourages poetry lovers to share a poem virtually this year. Select a poem and share it on social media using the hashtag #PocketPoem.<\/p>\n
I am choosing to share here the poem \u201cAllow\u201d by Danna Faulds<\/p>\n
Allow<\/strong><\/p>\n There is no controlling life. Please consider sharing a poem you love or that inspires you with a friend today, either directly or via social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You may know that April is National Poetry Month, but did you know that 2021 is the twenty-fifth anniversary of this annual celebration? Today, Thursday April 29, is \u201cPoem in Your Pocket\u201d Day. The Academy of American Poets encourages poetry lovers to share a poem virtually this year. Select a poem and share it on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12498,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497\/revisions\/12498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTry corralling a lightning bolt
\ncontaining a tornado.\u00a0 Dam a
\nstream and it will create a new
\nchannel.\u00a0 Resist, and the tide
\nwill sweep you off your feet.
\nAllow, and grace will carry
\nyou to higher ground.\u00a0 The only
\nsafety lies in letting it all in \u2013
\nthe wild and the weak; fear
\nfantasies, failures and success.
\nWhen loss rips off the doors of
\nthe heart, or sadness veils your
\nvision with despair, practice
\nbecomes simply bearing the truth.
\nIn the choice to let go of your
\nknown way of being, the whole
\nworld is revealed to your new eyes.<\/p>\n