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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.  ~Bill Cosby
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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!  ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.  ~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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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience.  ~Author Unknown
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.  ~William Wordsworth
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.  ~Jennifer Yane

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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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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.  ~Ogden Nash
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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.  ~Jennifer Yane
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~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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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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We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.  ~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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Never raise your hand to your kids.  It leaves your groin unprotected.  ~Red Buttons
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover.  ~Dorothy Fulheim
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.  ~Author Unknown
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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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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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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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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
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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

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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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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I'm sixty years of age.  That's 16 Celsius.  ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.  ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.  ~Lucille Ball
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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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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.  ~Author Unknown
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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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I'm sixty years of age.  That's 16 Celsius.  ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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

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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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, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown.  ~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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.  ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.  ~Charles Schulz
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Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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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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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