Top 10 Dip into Poetry
favorite lines from your community
If you’ve been reading with us for a while, you might know about Dip into Poetry—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 in the past few months:
1
“You take the stone in your hand and say it is nothing.
You throw it away to the water and watch”
—shared by Bethany, from Another Winter’s Tale
2
“Smudge and glimmer”
—shared by Katie Brewster, from Been and Gone
3
“Thorns grow in the field of the mind;
clear them and there’s no finer place.”
—shared by
, from Thorns Grow4
“mistakes are how I found my life”
—shared by Sandra Heska King, from We Find Honey Others Miss
5
“The third bell is saffron and slow”
—shared by shared by Megan Willome, from Improvisations: Light and Snow: 03
6
“curiosity must be kept alive”
—shared by Sandra Heska King, from Life
7
“But I knew.
I knew I would never be the same—”
—shared by Megan Willome, from Shedding
8
“Its pages
seemed to turn on their own, one by one,
following the rhythm of our breath”
—shared by Sandra Fox Murphy, from Missing Words
9
“Yet is the forest full of the sound of tears”
—shared by Megan Willome, from Very Early Spring
10
“And still the syllables of water whisper”
—shared by
, from Beloved, Let Us Once More Praise the Rain
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