Years ago I worked in a middle-school Media Center. Each year, the English teachers would declare a day as, “Poem in Your Pocket Day.” On that day staff and students were encouraged to carry around in their pockets, a favorite poem to share others.

It began for me a habit of always having some of my favorite poems first in my backpack printed out, and eventually when the technology came along, on my iPhone.

I have on my phone as of now about four dozen poems by among others::

• W.B. Yeats
• Seamus Heaney
• Carl Sandburg
• Robert Frost
• Jane Hirshfield
• W.H. Auden
• James Wright
• Ted Kooser
• Mary Oliver
• John Keats
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• William Blake
• Emily Dickinson
• William Wordsworth

My habit is to reread one of the poems each day. It is as close to a religious meditation as a get these days. And probably functions as such. A moment to recenter myself spiritually

What poems would you carry in your pocket each day?