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Top 10 ‘Dip Into Poetry’ Lines

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

We began a daily sharing over Every Day Poems on Twitter,  inviting you to take a dip into poetry with us.  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 (by number of tweets and favorites) #dipintopoetry lines that were tweeted over the couple of months.

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1. From Dust of Snow by Robert Frost

The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood

2. From Problems with Hurricanes by Victor Hernández Cruz

beware of mangoes
And all such beautiful
sweet things.

3. From Rocket by Todd Boss

across that
seemingly endless
childhood field

4. From Inventory by Günter Eich, translated by Joshua Mehigan

The pencil’s the thing
I love the most:

5. From Glass Slipper Sonnet by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell

When the shoe breaks, the sonnet must fall

6. From Furry Bear by A. A. Milne

I shouldn’t much mind
   If it snowed or friz—

7.  From Victims by Mark Jarman

No monster is responsible
        For his enormity.

8. From Still Life by Richard Maxson

No one planned the wild buttercups in that field.

9. From Finding the Scarf by Wyatt Townley

Childhood lies
on the forest floor,

10. From Khaleesi Says by Leah Umansky

I’m no ordinary woman, she says.
My dreams come true.

Thanks to our regular #dipintopoetry players:

@vickiaddesso,  @edaypoems, @tspoetry,  @monicasharman,  @windowonwords,  @graceappears,  @bethanyR__,
@doallas,  @sandraheskaking,  @theimaginedjay,  @lwlindquist,  @soulstops,
@lauralynn_brown,  @lanearnold,  @brightersideblg

Photo by Ashton,  Creative Commons License via Flickr.

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  1. Maureen Doallas says

    March 12, 2015 at 5:54 pm

    Found

    I shouldn’t mind
    the monster, all sweet
    for a change.

    Childhood dreams come
    true when that furry enormity
    lies on the forest floor

    and buttercups rocket
    across an endless glass field
    in the dust of hurricanes.

    A hemlock tree breaks
    the fall of mangoes
    in my shoe and I still,

    beware the wild inventory
    of my heart and all such
    beautiful things given life.

    No one planned finding
    the scarf, the slipper, the sonnet
    for the ordinary victims.

    Reply
  2. Dolly@Soulstops says

    March 12, 2015 at 11:40 pm

    So many favorites here…and Maureen, loved what you did with those found lines

    Reply

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