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Thank you Poetry Life & Times for continuing your mission and determination

I have a weird relationship with poetry. I'm not sure if I like it or not.

poetry. As part of an ongoing attempt to bring the ARTS into the limelight

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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.  ~Dinah Craik
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.  ~Bob Hope
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.  ~Bill Cosby
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Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown.  ~Author Unknown
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Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat.  Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound.  Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together.  Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.  ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.  ~Don Marquis
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.  ~Author Unknown
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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There is still no cure for the common birthday.  ~John Glenn

poetry.jpg Personal Poetry

Forms of Poetry - FREE Language Arts Presentations in PowerPoint format,

We will conclude our poetry unit with a WebQuest. Over a period of four days

powow poetry reading. Tomorrow, Saturday May 7, I have the pleasure of

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I'm sixty years of age.  That's 16 Celsius.  ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.  ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.  ~Jerry M. Wright
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard.  Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass."  "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply.  "We're raising boys."  ~Harmon Killebrew
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.  ~Author Unknown
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.  ~Chili Davis
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Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.  ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.  ~Author Unknown
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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.  ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat.  Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound.  Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together.  Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.  ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968

In April of 2011 we hosted our first annual Youth Poetry Contest!

When asked if I would do something similar for poetry, my first response was

Tucson Poetry Festival celebrating verse in the Old Pueblo since 1981.

Poetry, for me, isn't something I go out of my way to read.

poetry

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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.  ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard.  Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass."  "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply.  "We're raising boys."  ~Harmon Killebrew
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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.  ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.  ~Dinah Craik
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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.  ~Dan Bennett
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.  It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.  ~Mark Twain
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.  Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  ~Tom Wilson
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Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year:  The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.  ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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Never raise your hand to your kids.  It leaves your groin unprotected.  ~Red Buttons
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I'm sixty years of age.  That's 16 Celsius.  ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997

[Charlotte High School English 11: 24 Poets (2007)]

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Do you like poetry? by Linkums Posted September 19, 2010 17:08:11

Geoffrey Hill, The Art of Poetry No. 80. Interviewed by Carl Phillips

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Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament.  But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience.  ~Author Unknown
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Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament.  But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard.  Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass."  "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply.  "We're raising boys."  ~Harmon Killebrew
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Birthdays are good for you.  Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.  ~Larry Lorenzoni
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.  ~Phyllis Diller
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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.  ~Dan Bennett
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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun.  Enjoy the trip.  ~Author Unknown
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.  Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  ~Tom Wilson
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.  ~Sam Ewing

Spring Poetry Project with KidPix (grade 1)

Poetry Cartoons! Yes!

Poetry Idea Machine

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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.  ~Author Unknown
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.  ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
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Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat.  Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound.  Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together.  Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.  ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.  ~Herbert Asquith
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.  ~Don Marquis
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.  ~Herbert Asquith
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard.  Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass."  "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply.  "We're raising boys."  ~Harmon Killebrew
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Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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It kills you to see them grow up.  But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.  ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams