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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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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.  But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.  ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.  ~Robert Frost
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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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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown.  ~Author Unknown
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.  ~Author Unknown
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.  ~Author Unknown
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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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Birthdays are good for you.  Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.  ~Larry Lorenzoni
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Never raise your hand to your kids.  It leaves your groin unprotected.  ~Red Buttons
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.  ~Gloria Naylor

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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.  ~Chili Davis
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I'm sixty years of age.  That's 16 Celsius.  ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.  ~William Wordsworth
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.  ~Author Unknown
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.  ~Gloria Naylor
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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.  ~Herbert Asquith
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.  ~Author Unknown
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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

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)]

Tags: poetry pictures, pictures to do with poems, poetry pics, poetry images

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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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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.  ~Gloria Naylor
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.  ~Author Unknown
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.  ~Robert Frost

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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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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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.  But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.  ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover.  ~Dorothy Fulheim
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.  But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.  ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.  ~Author Unknown
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.  ~Ogden Nash
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.  ~Author Unknown
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.  ~Ogden Nash