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Poem on Your Pillow Day

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Poem on Your Pillow Day is Tuesday, May 3, in 2022. (Check out our post which includes an amusing history of the pillow.)

Basic Description

Poem on Your Pillow Day brings poetry home. Slip a quiet poem onto a friend’s, a guest’s, or a lover’s pillow. Or share a poem with your child at bedtime. Sweet poetry dreams!

What You’ll Need

• someone’s pillow

• a pillow poem (we’ve got plenty of poems here at Tweetspeak, or you can download special poem printables to suit several pillow-poem types: The Romantic, The Good Friend, The Mischief Maker, The Poetic Parent, and The Weary Traveler. See below.)

How to Celebrate Poem on Your Pillow Day

It’s simple to celebrate the day. Just slip a poem onto a friend’s, guest’s, child’s, or lover’s pillow. Consider reading the poem aloud once it’s found. You can write your poem out or share one of the printable poems from the collection below.

Yes, pillow fights and jumping on the bed will be allowable for energetic types. Just try not to hurt the poems. 😉 We can’t wait to celebrate this day with you!

Tweet us your pillow poem pics, if you want to share with @tspoetry!

(The Day recurs annually, on the first Tuesday in May. In 2022, that’s May 3.)

Note to Hotels, Inns, Bed and Breakfasts

Select high-resolution versions of photo poems from our printable collection are available for download below, and you are welcome to have them commercially printed for use at your establishment.

 
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Try out our Printable Pillow Poems collection below, or if you prefer, pick up:

funny poems
rose poems
chocolate poems
chicken poems
love poems
red poems
question poems
fairy tale poems
coloring page poems

Our 2017 Pillow Poems Collection

POP Day 2017 Cover

Download our complete low-res collection of fifteen 4 x 6 shareable and printable poems!

High res 4 x 6 —suitable for commercial printing & printing for framing:

Download Spring Dress
Download Love
Download Nothing Memorized
Download Good Neighbors
Download And On the Pillow Cases, Ink
Download Travelling
Download So We’ll Go No More A Roving
Download Spring’s First Butterfly

Sneak peek of what’s inside the printable collection:

So we'll Go No More A Roving

Spring Dress by Dave Malone
Limbo Poem

Nothing Memorized David K. Wheeler

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