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A Poem for Your Pocket · Backward Mutters Poetry Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: You are listening to the Backward Mutters Poetry Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Please visit online at backwardmutters.substack.com.
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  There you can subscribe via your favorite podcast player and
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  read the newsletter.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Randy Edwards.
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  I learned several years ago from a member of my congregation
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  that April 29th was
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  SPEAKER_00: poem in your pocket day.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a part of National Poetry Month now,
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  SPEAKER_00: and sadly,
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  SPEAKER_00: I just discovered that it isn't a fixed day during the month,
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  SPEAKER_00: but it moves.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's something like a movable feast on the church calendar,
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  something like the difference between Easter Sunday and the
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  Julian calendars and
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  SPEAKER_00: the Gregorian calendars.
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  SPEAKER_00: Though I'm a week and a half late.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every day, one should have a poem in their pocket, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So,
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  SPEAKER_00: for all my Substack,
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  SPEAKER_00: Poetry Pub,
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  SPEAKER_00: Goodness Tea Party,
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  SPEAKER_00: Almond Tree peeps,
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  SPEAKER_00: and anyone else who has an empty pocket out there,
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  SPEAKER_00: here's a poem for your pocket.
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  SPEAKER_00: I need a poem for my pocket,
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  SPEAKER_00: one that I can take with me,
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  SPEAKER_00: one that turns into a rocket,
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  SPEAKER_00: shoots me up and out and free,
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  SPEAKER_00: one that lifts my eyes to heaven,
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  enables me to see words that work in me like leaven or root me
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  like a tree.
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  SPEAKER_00: My pocket holds an iPhone,
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  SPEAKER_00: some change and several keys,
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  SPEAKER_00: but my pocket needs a poem to put my mind at ease.
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  SPEAKER_00: So,
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  SPEAKER_00: here's a poem for your pocket,
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  SPEAKER_00: one to take where you go,
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  SPEAKER_00: a promise in a locket,
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  SPEAKER_00: a promise you should know.
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  SPEAKER_00: His word is written in you,
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  SPEAKER_00: is seed a sower sown,
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  it sprouts and grows within you till you become a poem that
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  sings his hallelujah,
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  SPEAKER_00: or weeps in sad lament,
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  SPEAKER_00: leaves you speechless in the awe of the gospel word he sent.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like a poem in the pocket of his waistcoast, near his breast,
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  SPEAKER_00: You are sealed in the locket of his loving heart and blessed.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've been listening to the Backward Mutters Poetry Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Randy Edwards.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening.