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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.  ~Bob Hope
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.  ~Chili Davis
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.  ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.  ~Author Unknown
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.  ~Charles Schulz
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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.  ~Johann Schiller

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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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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
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.  ~William Wordsworth
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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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Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover.  ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.  Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  ~Tom Wilson

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.

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Official Logo- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!  ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.  ~Chili Davis
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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.  ~Ogden Nash
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.  ~Ogden Nash
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They say that age is all in your mind.  The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.  ~Author Unknown
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Making the decision to have a child is momentous.  It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.  ~Elizabeth Stone
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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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First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly.  ~Branch Rickey
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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

Poetry Cartoons! Yes!

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

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

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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.  ~Bill Cosby
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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
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Making the decision to have a child is momentous.  It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.  ~Elizabeth Stone
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.  ~Truman Capote
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman.  And when she is a woman he turns her back again.  ~Enid Bagnold
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter
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Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.  ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.  ~Author Unknown
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Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.  ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.  ~Lucille Ball

Spring Poetry Project with KidPix (grade 1)

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

Poetry Idea Machine

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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience.  ~Author Unknown
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.  ~Author Unknown
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.  ~Jennifer Yane
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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday.  ~John Glenn
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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!  ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.  ~Charles Schulz
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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881