Poetry Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/poetry/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:15:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/doingwhatmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/house-tree-512od.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Poetry Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/poetry/ 32 32 89931359 How to Enjoy Poetry Every Week https://doingwhatmatters.com/poetry-every-week/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/poetry-every-week/#respond Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:35:28 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3325 Do you read poetry and share it with your children? I’d like to prescribe a dose of poetry every single day, but I know that might seem daunting. How about poetry every week instead? Start with simple poems, laying a solid...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/poetry-every-week/feed/ 0 3325 Easter Wings: A Poem for Spring https://doingwhatmatters.com/easter-wings-a-poem-for-spring/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/easter-wings-a-poem-for-spring/#respond Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:09:31 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3268 Springtime puts me into a poetic frame of mind, so by the time April arrives — it’s Poetry Month, you know — I have a stack of poetry by my chair and favorite lines running through my head. Most of the...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/easter-wings-a-poem-for-spring/feed/ 0 3268 A poem, truth, and the month of May https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-poem-truth-and-the-month-of-may/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-poem-truth-and-the-month-of-may/#respond Thu, 05 May 2016 20:14:27 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=2476 Under the Willows by James Russell Lowell, 1819 – 1891 May is a pious fraud of the almanac, A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind; Or if, o’er-confident, she trust the date, And, with her...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-poem-truth-and-the-month-of-may/feed/ 0 2476 Aunt Edie’s Commonplace Book, 1917-1947 https://doingwhatmatters.com/aunt-edies-commonplace-book-1917-1947/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/aunt-edies-commonplace-book-1917-1947/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:37:49 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=2236 “It is very helpful to read with a commonplace book or reading-diary, in which to put down any striking thought in your author, or your own impression of the work, or of any part of it; but not summaries of...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/aunt-edies-commonplace-book-1917-1947/feed/ 14 2236 A Poem for Independence Day 2015 https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-poem-for-independence-day-2015/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-poem-for-independence-day-2015/#respond Sun, 05 Jul 2015 02:46:13 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=1979 In honor of Independence Day 2015, here is a classic poem about the nickname of the American flag. Use it as copywork or just enjoy it! I’ve also included a stirring rendition of America the Beautiful and few pithy quotes....

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-poem-for-independence-day-2015/feed/ 0 1979 Westward ho! Adding Context to Travel https://doingwhatmatters.com/westward-ho/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/westward-ho/#respond Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:16:34 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=1968 We are preparing for the WHO conference in Washington state and GHC in Ontario, California and as I always do when going westward, I start thinking of classic poetry, western songs, and big beautiful western sky. For me, it is...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/westward-ho/feed/ 0 1968 Dante’s 750th Anniversary, Properly Celebrated https://doingwhatmatters.com/dantes-750th-anniversary-properly-celebrated/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/dantes-750th-anniversary-properly-celebrated/#respond Mon, 04 May 2015 20:57:04 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=1918 The 750th anniversary of the birth of the great poet Dante Alighieri is being fittingly celebrated today in Italy. Oscar-winning actor Roberto Benigni will visit the Italian Senate to read from Dante’s masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, to an audience that will include Italy’s...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/dantes-750th-anniversary-properly-celebrated/feed/ 0 1918 The Memory Project: Pied Beauty and More https://doingwhatmatters.com/memory-project-pied-beauty/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/memory-project-pied-beauty/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:07:27 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1662 Memory is the storehouse of whatever knowledge we possess; and it is upon the fact of the stores lodged in the memory that we take rank as intelligent beings. Charlotte Mason, Home Education, p. 151 I’ve been thinking about memory...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/memory-project-pied-beauty/feed/ 8 1662 Winter Reading: Something Old, Something New https://doingwhatmatters.com/winter-reading/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/winter-reading/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:14:22 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1641 I love long, cosy winter evenings spent with a good book and a cat. This is when I whittle down the reading pile I’ve accumulated by my chair during the convention season and travel months. While some of my winter...

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