Top Ten “Dip into Poetry” Lines

Last month, we invited you to take a dip into poetry with us, sharing daily over Every Day Poems. Perhaps for you, the poem could be a pool. You could take a dip, a refreshing soak of your arms, legs, and lashes. Or maybe you’re the more hesitant type, dipping in only a toe to test the waters.

You might even be one who skips the pool and dips your pinky finger into a jar to savor the honey of a poem all morning.  Or maybe one is not enough, and you order your ice cream cones with a triple dip.

However you do your dipping, we invite you to keep taking your daily dip into poetry with us, posting your favorite line from the day’s Every Day Poems, with the hashtag #dipintopoetry. Today, we’re sharing the top ten (which is really the top 16 because of a massive 15-way tie) #dipintopoetry lines that were tweeted over the last month. Is your favorite here? Tweet with us every morning, and don’t forget to add #dipintopoetry. We’ll be looking for your lines.

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1. The hands-down favorite (selected by the most tweets) was from Raisins for Being by Roald Hoffman:

that I had a latecomer’s
right, to live life out
reflecting

The next 15 apparently ranked equally in our poetry-dipping friends’ minds:

2. From Gathering Leaves in Grade School by Judith Harris:

without branches or roots,
or even a sky to hold on to

3. From That the mistle thrush by John Daniel Thieme:

would ransom the fading hours

4. From The Song of the Wandering Aengus by W. B. Yeats:

And someone called me by my name

5. From Taken by LW Lindquist:

strewn by hands
that touched all of her

treasures, gone missing

6. From Nature’s Gold by Dave Malone:

Smoke polkas above the pines
the night I burn my novel

7. From The Song of the Wandering Aengus by W. B. Yeats:

I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head

8. From Opera Bouffe by Philip Gross:

our lit cage rising weightless
up the lift shaft of the air

9. From The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes:

The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor

10. From Constellations by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum:

cupped hands lighthouses of flight

11. From The Song of the Wandering Aengus by W. B. Yeats (Mr. Yeats is a popular one):

Though I am old with wandering

12. From Imagination by James Baldwin:

Columbus was discovered
by what he found

13. From Traffic in Phoenix by Claire McQuerry:

Every intersection is a promise, fabulous
with lights

14. From A Ballad of the Two Knights by Sara Teasdale:

I ween the knights forgot their words 
Or else they ceased to care

15. From Late Summer by Jennifer Grotz:

things
redden and ripen and burst and come down

16. From Across the Border by Sophie Jewett

I crept home to sweet common flowers

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Will Willingham

Director of Many Things; Senior Editor, Designer and Illustrator at Tweetspeak Poetry

I used to be a claims adjuster, helping people and insurance companies make sense of loss. Now, I train other folks with ladders and tape measures to go and do likewise. Sometimes, when I’m not scaling small buildings or crunching numbers with my bare hands, I read Keats upside down. My first novel is Adjustments.

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