Top 10 Dip Into Poetry

Have you heard about Dip into Poetry? It’s 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 cup of favorites!

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

1

“Crows fly to pines on mascara wings.”

—shared by Pauline Beck, from Fog

2

“Out in the garden . . . some old gardener . . . is secretly putting in order.”

—shared by Katie Brewster, from Out in the Garden

3

“sets lanterns
in dark corners”

—shared by LL, from [a letter]

4

“stricken air”

—shared by Megan Willome, from Autumn Music

5

“Whilst the rain is murm‘ring sweetly
As if angels echoing”

—shared by Bethany R., from Shooting Stars

6

“a cat at the foot of the bed, noncommittal….”

—shared by Sandra Fox Murphy, from Cat in the Night

7

“I roam the city
murmuring I am

young, my heart is strong,
and I can take it.”

—shared by Maureen Doallas, from Westward

8

“I tremble at the world—lavender,
crickets, alyssum, and suffering.”

—shared by Bethany R., from The Self, Unrivered

9

“The fog slips ghostlike into a thousand rooms,
Whirls over sleeping faces,
Spins in an atomy dance round misty street lamps;
And blows in cloudy waves over open spaces”

—shared by Maureen Doallas, from The House of Dust

10

“The leaves still fall
like the notes from the harp”

—shared by Bethany R., from Autumn Music

Photo by Yevhen Buzuk, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.