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Top Ten #DipIntoPoetry Lines from Every Day Poems

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Recently, we began a daily dip into poetry,  sharing over Every Day Poems on Twitter. We invited you to experience the power of a single line by posting your favorite line from the day’s Every Day Poems, with the hashtag#dipintopoetry. Today, we’re sharing the top ten #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.

(You’re not getting Every Day Poems in your inbox every morning? Shimmy on over to our subscription page and we’ll get you set up.)

1. From Aspens, by Edward Thomas

The aspens at the cross-roads talk together
Of rain, until their last leaves fall from the top

2. From The Pumpkin,  by John Greenleaf Whittier

And the sun of September melts down on his vines.

3. From Squirrels by Nathan Klug

like woodsmokebecoming tears;

4. From A Game of Henge, by Philip Gross

It’s your move.

5. From Mozart in E-flat Major, by Hsia Yü

I feel Monday’s well-shaven face

6. From View from the Train, by Glynn Young

vapors
left behind by the train

7. Also from View from the Train, by Glynn Young

A child, face pressed, watches

8. Another line from Squirrels by Nathan Klug

hunches that refuse
to speak

9. Here’s one more from A Game of Henge, by Philip Gross

Whichever way you turn
are doors. Choose.

10. From Insomnia, by Dana Gioia

the mortgaged walls shifting in discomfort,
and voices mounting in an endless drone
of small complaints like the sounds of a family

Photo by Jenny Downing. Creative Commons License via Flickr.

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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, Adjustments, is available now.

Comments

  1. Monica Sharman says

    November 6, 2014 at 10:43 am

    Here’s what one professor said about our #dipintopoetry fun: “I’m inclined to recommend the ‘favourite line’ technique to writing students – a way of individuals taking a stake in a poem.”

    Reply
    • Sandra Heska King says

      November 6, 2014 at 11:16 am

      That’s so cool. And all these lines together can make their own poem.

      Reply
    • L. L. Barkat says

      November 6, 2014 at 1:22 pm

      Oh, perfect 🙂

      Reply
  2. Maureen Doallas says

    November 6, 2014 at 6:29 pm

    Discomfort (Found Poem)

    Talk of aspens, and the fall
    of endless rain that leaves you

    behind doors in September,
    the mortgaged walls shifting

    your discomfort from a child
    in tears to the small family

    complaints pressed down on
    you. You speak of hunches, I

    choose to face you at the cross
    -roads. Monday’s last train sounds.

    Reply
  3. Lane M Arnold says

    November 7, 2014 at 10:45 am

    Oh, greenly and fair in the lands of the sun,
    The vines of the gourd and the rich melon run

    John Greenleaf Whittier “The Pumpkin”

    A nugget of wonder as I pan among words…Every Day poems prime the pump of alertness.

    Reply
    • Maureen Doallas says

      November 7, 2014 at 11:56 am

      Nice!!

      Reply

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