World Poetry Day
It seems that every cause, idea, group, disease, etc., has its own special designated day, week, month, etc., in our modern world. Did you know, for example, that today is National French Bread Day ? Also, National Common Courtesy and National Fragrance Day ? Indeed it is! But some things are so important that they get not just a "national" day but a "world" day. And today is one of those, too. It is World Poetry Day . This is an annual event, celebrated every year on March 21. Why that particular date? Maybe because this is the time of year that brings out the poet in all of us. To celebrate this special day, here are just a few favorite lines from favorite poems. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver - The Summer Day It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley - Invictus He was my North, my South, my East ...