Poetry in Your Pocket Day

I wanted to post the poem that will be in my pocket tomorrow to celebrate PIYP day 2012.

A Roadway

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Let those who will stride on their barren roads
And prick themselves to haste with self-made goads,
Unheeding, as they struggle day by day,
If flowers be sweet or skies be blue or gray:
For me, the lone, cool way by purling brooks,
The solemn quiet of the woodland nooks,
A song-bird somewhere trilling sadly gay,
A pause to pick a flower beside the way.

Perhaps you would like to join me for PIYP. Just find a poem that you like, and share it with at least several others tomorrow.