Poem in Your Pocket Day 2011

The fact that Mrs. Trashpaddler is a school librarian affords me advance notice of literary events such as tomorrow's Poem in Your Pocket Day.  This is the poem I've selected to have both in my pocket and my kayak this week and beyond:

And I thought over again

My small adventures

As with a shore-wind I drifted out

In my kayak

And thought I was in danger,

My fears,

Those small ones

That I thought so big

For all the vital things

I had to get and to reach.

And yet, there is only

One great thing,

To live to see in huts and on journeys

The great day that dawns,

And the light that fills the world.

                Inuit Song

 

The above poem was found in the book Earth Prayers From Around The World, 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth, edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon.  Published by HarperCollins.