Top 10 Dip into Poetry

If you’ve been reading with us for a while, you might know about Dip into Poetry—a chance to share your favorite lines from each day’s poem.

Some readers share on Notes and some comment at Every Day Poems. It all adds up to a lovely gathering of favorites!

Here are ten of your faves we’ve seen recently:

1

“You play amidst cherry blossoms, unworried; more sweetness will unfold tomorrow”

—shared by Sandra Fox Murphy, from Sparrow Beyond the Glass

2

“You, sir, know how
to bubble my fountain. You uncork my perfumes
that do not come from a bottle.”

—shared by Katie Brewster, from Because

3

“You miss it, craning
away from verdancy.”

—shared by LL, from Sur l’herbe

4

“that jingle-shell beach—”

—shared by Megan Willome, from [at the end]

5

“I change with the light”

—shared by Bethany Rohde, from Self-Portrait as Overpriced Purple Vase from Bay View Street in Camden, Maine

6

“First taste of August”

—shared by Pauline Beck, from haiku at 4:22 p.m.

7

“Spendthrift world, it’s me again, listening hard”

—shared by Katie Brewster, from Bloom and Bloom

8

“‘… O moon, then kisses the page.’”

—shared by Sandra Fox Murphy, from Mystic Affection

9

“Don’t second guess.”

—shared by shared by Katie Brewster, from Identity

10

“You gaze at a point
that feels beyond me.”

—shared by Bethany Rohde, Photograph: Aruba, 1938

Photo by Glen Carrie, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.