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Top 10 Dip Into Poetry Lines

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Dip Into Poetry dandelion fluff

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? Slide on over to our subscription page and we’ll get you set up.)

 

1. From For the Children by Gary Snyder

stay together
learn the flowers
go light

2. From Of Mule and Deer by Farid Matuk

Lightly you lope, pale deer, lifting

3. From Velvet Shoes by Elinor Wylie

Silence will fall like dews

4. Dignity by Rhonda Owen

An egg deserves
some privacy    before it breaks.

5. From Drinking Tea in the Small Hours by W.S. Merwin

the taste is a hush from far away

6. From My Real Dwelling by Ikkyu

My real dwelling
Has no pillars

7. From Shakespeare’s Othello

There’s magic in the web of it

8. From Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint by Federico Garcia Lorca

…the lone rose of your breath
rests on my cheek…

9. From Bull Elk, Midwinter David Bottoms

Heavy clouds, like a winter coat, tumble his back

10. Fire & Flower by Laura Kasischke

Song of milk & mouths turned to white blossoms

Thanks to our regular #dipintopoetry players:

@Doallas, @theimaginedjay, @SandraHeskaKing, @matthew_kreider, @monicasharman,
@BrighterSideBlg, @BethanyR__,  @ChristinaHubs, @VickiAddesso, 
@nottalking, @onedeepdrawer

Photo by Sue Corbisez, 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
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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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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. Katie says

    February 8, 2018 at 8:48 am

    Hi TSP folk
    I don’t twitter (yet), but I just want to say that the images at the top of the Every Day Poems & the posts on TSP are often a bright spot in my day:)
    Thanks!

    Reply
  2. Maureen says

    February 8, 2018 at 11:21 am

    These lines are excellent for creating a poem for Valentine’s Day. I didn’t use every word and used a few words from the titles.

    ____________________________________

    Hush . . . Stay . . . Go

    The lone rose of your breath
    on my cheek rests lightly,

    like some mid-winter silence
    in the small hours before

    your sweet complaint has
    turned to fire. The taste

    of you — a hush from far
    away — is magic, a song lifting

    a heavy web of dews from
    mouths of milk-white blossoms.

    You learn my real dwelling
    has no pillars, and flower.

    Reply
    • Matthew Kreider says

      February 11, 2018 at 10:45 am

      Bravo, Maureen! Masterful, you are.. 🙂

      Reply
    • Will Willingham says

      February 11, 2018 at 11:14 am

      Thanks for this, Maureen. It’s good to hear your voice. 🙂

      Reply
  3. Kortney Garrison says

    February 9, 2018 at 9:43 pm

    I spent a week reading that Merwin poem each day after it was posted, and it’s still not done with me. Like Maureen says, such a powerful collection of lines.

    Reply
  4. Maureen says

    February 12, 2018 at 9:13 am

    Thank you, Matt and LW!

    Reply

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