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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!  ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836

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

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

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

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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.  ~Author Unknown

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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience.  ~Author Unknown

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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 still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.  ~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

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

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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.  ~Author Unknown

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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.  ~Author Unknown

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

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

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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.  ~Jennifer Yane

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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.  ~Chili Davis

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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.  ~Author Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.  ~Chili Davis

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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

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 are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.  ~Ogden Nash

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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.  ~Author Unknown

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

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

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

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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.  ~Author Unknown

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