Top 10 Dip into Poetry

favorite lines from your community

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

Some readers share on Twitter, some reply to our inbox, and some restack or comment here at Every Day Poems. It all adds up to a lovely cup of favorites!

Here are ten of your faves we’ve seen in April, May & June:

1

“in the moment of voicing
that person might live again”

—shared by Monica Silva, from Bookseller

2

“let’s go together on two different paths”

—shared by Bethany, from We Were Missing a Present

3

“moments before
the season changes”

—shared by LL, from Nine Ways of Looking at Light

4

“Poetry in the pandemic: birdsong that was there all along.”

—shared by Sandra Heska King, from A Wing and a Prayer

5

“Till brooms fade softly into stars”

—shared by Vicki Malits Addesso, from She sweeps with many-coloured Brooms

6

“I don’t want to bring a story
to it. Not even an image.
It has a sound. Listen.”

—shared by Rick Maxson, from Comma

7

“In rest—like the space
between stars or heartbeats—

uncertainty hinges. There,
Coyote waves his feather wand.”

—shared by Megan Willome, from Report

8

“what I do not understand is more real than what I do.”

—shared by Weston Parker, from Happy Ideas

9

“Chicken! Lemon! Artichokes!”

—shared by Out for Stars, from The First Lines of Emails I’ve Received While Quarantining

10

“you have no light
but your own imagination
and the ocean called language.”

—shared by Sharmen Oswald, from Astrobiography

Photo by Derick McKinney, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.