Top 10 Dip into Poetry

favorite lines from your community...

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 here 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

“You are missing from me”

—shared by Maureen Doallas, from Tu Me Manques

2

“For this now, we are sunbeam and story
and the tickle of damsel flies
that land on our skin.
We are the aimless drift
from light to light.”

—shared by Rick Maxson, from Sunday Afternoon

3

“The view startled like a diamond
inside an orange.”

—shared by LL, from I Think of You, Eréndira

4

“And during drought
there’s still a dab behind the ear
or in the hollow
above the wishbone.”

—shared by Megan Willome, from Capturing the Scent of Rain

5

“Yet I have wrested a gift from you,
Day that dies in dusky blue”

—shared by Bethany Rohde, from The New Moon

6

“pressed between us frantic, slow ...”

—shared by Sandra Fox Murphy, from Juliet’s Aubade

7

“Let the history of you go, let yourself
create new vocabulary, name your self
as one of the many ways one can be.”

—shared by Maureen Doallas, from Concoct

8

“meringue falls like a hill of snow ....”

—shared by Sandra Fox Murphy, from Instructions for Pie

9

“It’s not that you didn’t know words—

It’s that, from the centuries, you knew so many,
And it’s hard to choose the words that will be your own.”

—shared by Megan Willome, from A House Called Tomorrow

10

“Even my windows went blue
as sea glass, and through them so did the streets”

—shared by Bethany Rohde, I Think of You, Eréndira

Photo by Patrycja Jadach, Unsplash license.