Top 10 Dip into Poetry

favorite lines from your community!

Welcome to Dip into Poetry—where we feature your favorite lines that you’ve shared from each day’s poem!

Some readers have shared on Twitter, some replied to our inbox, and some restacked or commented here at Every Day Poems. It all gathers into a brilliant bouquet of favorites!

Here are ten of your faves we saw in July:

1

I could be the ghost of my own life returning 
to the places I lived best. 

—shared by Will Willingham, from Adult

2

“It has no past, no story explaining the sky”

—shared by Rick Maxson, from [“What do you do for a living?” is a complicated question]

3

“Do not frighten the birds in her braided hair”

—shared by LL, from A Lesson from Kama Sutra

4

“love may not come from what you love;
you cannot always choose
the door that opens your life.”

—shared by Bethany R, from Do Not Despair

5

“To learn you must be open, diligent, and willing to be an individual.”

—shared by Katie Brewster, from A Year Dot

6

“how to open dreams like flowers”

—shared by Rick Maxson, from i learned opening

7

“riveted to the secret of birds”

—shared by Megan Willome, from Boy and Egg

8

“The trace of pearl that remains
in the bulk of you will fail”

—shared by Sandra Fox Murphy, from Do Not Despair

9

“I want us to wake to the magnitude of our fortune against
the smallness
of our time.”

—shared by Bethany R, from when we get through this

10

Oh better than the minting 
     Of a gold-crowned king 
Is the safe-kept memory 
     Of a lovely thing.

—shared by Sara Barkat of The Sadbook Collections, from The Coin

Photo by Robert Zunikoff, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.