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Top 10 Dip Into Poetry Lines

By LW Lindquist 4 Comments

Dip Into Poetry

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.

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 month or so.

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1. Cirque by Sara Barkat

we found
a grave excuse to look around

2. Death Defying by Marjorie Maddox

From her husband’s teeth, the thin lady hangs

3. Sonnet 24 by William Shakespeare

That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes.
Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done

4. Beard and Baby by Eugene Field

And round my heart I always feel
The twining of her dimpled fingers!

5. Signals by Joseph Hutchison

at sea in a mirror made of lost time

6. After the Sea Ship by Walt Whitman

Waves, undulating waves, liquid, uneven, emulous waves

7. Release by R.S. Gwynn

Slow for the sake of flowers as they turn

8. Funnel by Joan Murray

the narrow spinning room with both of us inside,
slow-dancing

9. Photograph by Dave Malone

The boat blushes mimosa pink

10. Whales by Claire Trévien

the carpet looked too smooth to hide a mammal

Thanks to our regular #dipintopoetry players:

@vickiaddesso,  @edaypoems,  @tspoetry,  @monicasharman,  @matthew_kreider,
@doallas,  @sandraheskaking,  @brightersideblg, @dzmalone, @soulstops

Photo by Neal Fowler,  Creative Commons License via Flickr.

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Comments

  1. Matthew Kreider says

    August 13, 2015 at 10:55 am

    Seeing these lines here feels like bumping into good friends again. 🙂

    Reply
  2. Maureen says

    August 13, 2015 at 11:06 am

    Inside Ship Windows

    From her husband’s teeth, the thin lady hangs,
    a grave excuse for spinning. Both eyes narrow
    to a funnel, glazed, as they turn to look around

    the room. Her eyes mirror the lost time both feel
    as her fingers release the photograph made at sea
    after the too-smooth waves round, slow the ship

    for the sake of 24 good whales, undulating. Baby,
    we are emulous, slow-dancing a liquid sonnet
    with the uneven boat. See into the twining windows

    of his dimpled pink heart? The mimosa flowers hide
    the signals a mammal always blushes, that beard
    we found in the carpet.

    What now?

    Reply
  3. Matthew Kreider says

    August 13, 2015 at 12:27 pm

    Love this, Maureen. Some really delightful word pools have formed — where I just want to stop and splash around in them for a bit. Beautiful work! You are still the master. : )

    Reply
    • Maureen says

      August 13, 2015 at 12:28 pm

      Oh, thank you, Matt!

      Reply

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