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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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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover.  ~Dorothy Fulheim
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.  ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.  ~Author Unknown
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.  ~Bill Cosby
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.  ~Jennifer Yane
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.  ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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

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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover.  ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.  ~Robert Frost
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.  ~Bill Cosby
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There is still no cure for the common birthday.  ~John Glenn
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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday.  ~John Glenn
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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.  ~Bob Hope
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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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Official Logo- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

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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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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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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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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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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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Birthdays are good for you.  Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.  ~Larry Lorenzoni
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.  ~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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover.  ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter

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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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!  ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.  ~Charles Schulz
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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.  ~William Wordsworth
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.  ~Charles Schulz
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover.  ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

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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There is still no cure for the common birthday.  ~John Glenn
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.  ~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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.  ~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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.  ~Jennifer Yane
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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday.  ~John Glenn
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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