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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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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.  ~Johann Schiller

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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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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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It kills you to see them grow up.  But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.  ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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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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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.  ~Truman Capote

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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.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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.  ~Charles Schulz

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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.  ~Author Unknown

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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.  ~William Wordsworth

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In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups.  In old age, we yearn to be kids.  It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

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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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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.  Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  ~Tom Wilson

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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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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

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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover.  ~Dorothy Fulheim

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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.  ~Johann Schiller

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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.  ~Gloria Naylor

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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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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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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.  ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640

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Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  ~George Bernard Shaw

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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

[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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.  ~Robert Frost

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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.  ~Truman Capote

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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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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown

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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter

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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.  ~Bill Cosby

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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.  ~Gloria Naylor

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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.  ~William Wordsworth

Spring Poetry Project with KidPix (grade 1)

Poetry Cartoons! Yes!

Poetry Idea Machine

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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.  ~Herbert Asquith

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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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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 is a disease from which we all recover.  ~Dorothy Fulheim

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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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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.  ~Herbert Asquith

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Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.  ~Lucille Ball