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 (and drizzled with ripened berries).

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. (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 The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke

From endless passing of the bars his gaze
has wearied—there is no more it can hold.

2. From Let’s Make Walls Like This by L.L. Barkat

And a wall like this
would have a heart

3. From The Shadow by William Carlos Williams

Spring closes me in
With her arms and hands

4. From The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot

Eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase

5. From Tumi Rabe Nirobe by Rabindranath Tagore

Thou shalt dwell in silence in my heart

6. From Where There’s a Wall by Joy Kogawa

where there’s a wall
there are words
to whisper

7. From The Tide Rises the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The little waves, with their soft, white hands

8. From Ears of Wheat, 1890 by Barbara Crooker

His brush herringboned up each stalk

9. From A Soldier by Robert Frost

Our missiles always make too short an arc

10. From That New by Susan Rothbard

that apple bride
was sweet

Thanks to our regular #dipintopoetry players:

@Doallas, @theimaginedjay, @SandraHeskaKing, @matthew_kreider, @monicasharman, @BrighterSideBlg, @BethanyR__, @majoriemaddox, @ChristinaHubs, @VickiAddesso

Photo by Daniel Lee, 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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