{"id":3325,"date":"2017-08-29T17:35:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T17:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.doingwhatmatters.com\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2018-05-04T13:59:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T13:59:13","slug":"poetry-every-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doingwhatmatters.com\/poetry-every-week\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enjoy Poetry Every Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you read poetry and share it with your children?\u00a0\"\"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 foundation with Mother Goose rhymes<\/a>\u00a0and Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses<\/em><\/a>, and branch out from there.<\/p>\n

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Why read poetry every week?<\/h1>\n
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  • Poetry is beautiful.<\/li>\n
  • Poetry shows you how to see what is really there.<\/li>\n
  • Poetry can touch the heart and shape the soul.<\/li>\n
  • Poetry shows how to use language creatively.<\/li>\n
  • Poetry increases the ability to think metaphorically and analogically.<\/li>\n
  • Poetry can be fun, as demonstrated by former United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins in the video below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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