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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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I'm sixty years of age.  That's 16 Celsius.  ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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

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.

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

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Never raise your hand to your kids.  It leaves your groin unprotected.  ~Red Buttons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.  ~Jerry M. Wright

Spring Poetry Project with KidPix (grade 1)

Poetry Cartoons! Yes!

Poetry Idea Machine

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

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

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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday.  ~John Glenn

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

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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!)