Poetry Friday, Week 19: Favorite Poets and Poems and a Winner

5/9/2024

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Linda at A Word Edgewise is hosting Poetry Friday this week. She is offering a "Clunker Exchange" where you take one for her lines and you leave one.

Last month, I asked for favorite pets and poems. I know that that is a big ask. I know that one day it is this poet and poem and the next day it might be another. That said, here's to those who offer a suggestion.

Winner of a Copy of Ruptured by Joanne Rossmassler Fritz

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz generously offered a personalized signed copy of Ruptured.

That winner is Melanie Dulaney!
Please email me your snail mail address at macrush53 at yahoo dot com.

Linda Mitchell

5/10/2024 02:34:00 am

Jone, this slide show is fabulous! I so enjoy seeing what's behind the curtain--why other people have selected a poem. Like Denise, today it's one favorite poem, tomorrow it will be another. It depends, I think, on the weather of our soul--do we need an umbrella or a sunhat?
I'm adding my favorite line: "As you set out for Ithaka" It's my favorite because it was one poem that awakened me to the possibility of poetry at a time when I was becoming my true self as a young woman not dependent on parents or spouse. I was living in Greece and had the whole world to discover. Listening to a woman named Georgia read this poem was a lightening bolt moment in my life.

Tabatha

5/10/2024 03:55:07 am

I think my favorite is different depending on who it is for and the context, like "Seal Lullaby" by Kipling is my favorite if you need a lullaby. This morning it is "Bach Winter" by Jane Mead. It's not winter, but music is on my mind! Poetry is for every mood :)

Tracey Kiff-Judson link

5/10/2024 02:21:14 pm

Jone, I apologize for not sending you a poem! I have a real problem with picking my favorite anything! I love the selections that people sent. Thank you for creating this collection and sharing!

PATRICIA J FRANZ link

5/10/2024 07:21:24 pm

Such a wonderful compilation, Jone. Thanks for sharing it!

Carol Jean Labuzzetta link

5/10/2024 07:34:23 pm

Jone, This is a wonderful list of poems and favorite lines with the reasons the submitters love them. I know I've grown in my poetry knowledge because I recognized quite a few of them. I wish I had seen the call - but then again, I don't know what I would have picked. I am partial to the Carl Sandburg poem that Janice submitted though. I love the slide show - what a great way to share! You are very creative!

Alan j Wright

5/10/2024 09:08:51 pm

The diversity of choices sings proudly of poetry's vast terrain, Jone. Your efforts to share these poetic preferences is to be applauded. Well done you.

Rose Cappelli

5/11/2024 10:51:56 am

Thanks for sharing the slides, Jone! I try to read poems every day and I usually write down the titles and sometimes favorite lines, but I think I will try to make that a more regular practice. You've inspired me!

Laura Purdie Salas link

5/11/2024 01:46:19 pm

What a wonderful compilation. People's reasons for their choices are as engaging as the lines of poetry themselves!

Marcie Flinchum Atkins link

5/11/2024 03:23:37 pm

I love Naomi Shihab Nye, but I hadn't read Gate A-4, so thank you so much for introducing me to this poem. What a POEM! It made me cry.

Karen Edmisten link

5/11/2024 05:54:59 pm

Oh, Jone, what a lovely collection of favorites in your slide show! So hard to pick a favorite, isn't it? I missed PF last week (flooding and all!) but I'm grateful for those who shared. What a joy of a post!

Denise Krebs

5/11/2024 07:34:09 pm

Jone, thank you for compiling and sharing our favorite poems. This was very fun to read and enjoy so many favorites. Your poem Gate A-4 is another of my favorites. "This is the world I want to live in. The shared world."

Margaret Simon

5/12/2024 01:59:53 pm

So many great poems. Thanks for asking.

Bridget Magee

5/13/2024 06:00:06 am

You asked and many wonderfully generous poets answered! I'm a Sandburg fan, so I'm with Janice on her choice, but now I have a few new-to-me poems to explore. Yay! Thanks for thinking to ask, Jone. Who's your poet/poem?

Jone

5/13/2024 06:22:24 am

Bridget, Read slide 10 to find my favorite poet or one of them

Gail Aldous

5/14/2024 09:16:40 am

Jone, thank you for this great slide show of everyone's favorite poem! I enjoyed finding out why the poem was their favorite. Now, I have some new poems to read over and over, which is great. What a great idea, Jone! Thank you, for taking the time to do this project, for your inspiration, and for all the inspiration in everyone's responses.

Michelle Kogan link

5/15/2024 09:54:47 am

I too appreciate reading the reasons for the poem selections, they are like a small window onto the poet’s thoughts, thanks for asking all of us, organizing, and sharing all!

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