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 Substack’s Notes and some comment at Every Day Poems. It all adds up to a lovely bouquet of favorites!

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

1

“For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.”

—shared by Rick Maxson, from The Snow Man

2

“‘Fool,’ said my Muse to me, ‘Look in they heart and write.’”

—shared by Megan Willome, from Astrophil and Stella

3

“The bitterness inflicted on them
takes their bitterness away.”

—shared by LL, from Outside Thermalito

4

“who live life without struggling
to write about it”

—shared by Megan Willome, from Exercising to Poetry Videos

5

“first light—fluid gold
through sheer drapes”

—shared by Bethany R., from Morning Gladness

6

“even when I am tided
into the fog, which swallows my sight,
and I am wrapped up in it.”

—shared by Sandra Fox Murphy, from Eclipse

7

“Making a decoy of blue overalls
And mystery of a scarlet shawl—”

—shared by Maureen Doallas, from The Fog

8

“junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter”

—shared by Bethany R., from The Snow Man

9

“Now, you wonder,
must catastrophe always be unpleasant?

Does sand struggle as it shrinks?
Do waves weep as they die on the shore

with laughter, with the wine-dark hymns?”

—shared by Maureen Doallas, from The Sea, The Tower

10

“The sea is not full
though she drinks every river”

—shared by Valentina, from The Sea, the Tower

Photo by Ivan Aleksic, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.