Top 10 Dip into Poetry Lines

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. Sometimes that #dipintopoetry also inspires #everydaysketches. #everydayimages and #everydaysculptures.
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 Ties by Jo McDougall

I think of this moment
as an incredible moth.

2. From Braille by John Lee Clark

If my finger is the sky,
Then under it the fields prosper.

3. From With Kit, Age 7, At the Beach by William Stafford

The ocean was performing

4. From Together by L.L. Barkat

traveling the Milky Way, wondering
where you are.

5. From No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats

With beauty like a tightened bow

6. From Between Funerals by Felicia Krol

white letters
clink
into a plastic bag

7. From The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I am half sick of shadows

8. From Aphelion by Robin Beth Schaer

the tent of the sky,
the wind in vast cotillions

9. From Japanese Picture by Hilda Conkling

Japanese people in silk
Hidden in the brown-sugar houses

10. From The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats

peace comes dropping slow

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Thanks to our regular #dipintopoetry players: @vickiaddesso,  @edaypoems, @tspoetry,
@doallas,  @sandraheskaking,  @theimaginedjay,  @brightersideblg, @BethanyR_, @matthew_kreider, @ChristinaHubs

Photo by Sofianne Finch,  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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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, Adjustments, is available now.

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