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Top 10 Dip into Poetry Lines

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Dip Into Poetry

We enjoy 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.

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. From No, by Mark Doty

He’s the color of ruined wallpaper,
of cognac, and he’s closed

2. From Poem on the Fridge by Paul Hostovsky

The refrigerator is the highest honor
a poem can aspire to.

3. From Poem in Which Nobody Says I Told You So by Tracy K. Smith

Now we can lose ourselves in six dimensions.

4. From Press by Richard Maxson

What would I
read in lines
of your face

5. From Warm Night by Terri Witek

and sips from the small red spoon of your lips

6. From Introduction to Physics by Susan Lewis

Don’t suck me into your empty center —

7. From Fire and Ice by Robert Frost

I hold with those who favor fire

8. From Selecting a Reader by Ted Kooser

she will thumb
over my poems

9. From Rope by Rynn Williams

and the rope’s metronome, forgotten as breath

10. From Galway Moons by Terence Winch

If you can recall the street where you were born
pack the memory carefully

*******

Thanks to our regular #dipintopoetry players: @vickiaddesso,  @edaypoems, @tspoetry,  @monicasharman,
@doallas,  @sandraheskaking,  @theimaginedjay,  @lauralynn_brown @brightersideblg

Photo by Rafael Capalbo,  Creative Commons License via Flickr. All poems previously appeared by permission of the poet and/or publisher in Every Day Poems.

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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 is Adjustments.
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About Will Willingham

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.

Comments

  1. Maureen says

    December 10, 2015 at 6:44 pm

    Small Forgotten Poems

    We read ourselves in the lines
    of your face, empty the red
    from your warm lips, spoon ice
    into sips of cognac and recall
    as a poem the press of your breath
    in the center of ruined wallpaper.

    *

    If I favor memory, I recall
    the night you were born,
    how I would hold you, carefully,
    your lips closed over a thumb.

    I would read you small, forgotten
    poems.

    You would suck as if a metronome,
    your face the color of fire.

    *

    I aspire to be your introduction
    to the six dimensions of the highest
    moons in Galway.

    Nobody says, “Don’t pack rope.”

    Reply
    • L. L. Barkat says

      December 10, 2015 at 7:07 pm

      Oh, these are wonderful. I am especially liking…

      “If I favor memory, I recall
      the night you were born”

      and

      “I aspire to be your introduction
      to the six dimensions of the highest
      moons in Galway.”

      Reply

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