Charles Simic - sorry to hear"1990 Pulitzer Prize, and served as the United States Poet Laureate" - The Yale Review
.... A rather sad little poem.
"Breathing the stale and stuffy air" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; A Voyage... https://www.poetrycat.com/arthur-conan-doyle/a-voyage
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tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Wow! Conan Doyle writing nostalgic poems!
"Crown me with roses," Crown me with Roses by Fernando Pessoa
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-21947
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Pessoa wiki (incredibly complex)... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa
EnjoyedInteresting poem... sought analysis and learned of a poetry device I've used but never knew it had a name: (anadiplosis) - https://literarydevices.net/anadiplosis/
Not knowing the original Portuguese poem, nor knowing Portuguese, the translation seems slanted toward something in the style ee cummings might have written - which is within Pessoa's range.
Found another translation which better resonates with me, again not knowing the original Portuguese poem, nor knowing Portuguese, translated from the Portuguese by Alessandro Palermo Funari: a poem written by Ricardo Reis (a heteronym of Fernando Pessoa);
(the last poem on the page)...Crown me with roses,
Crown me, in truth, with
Roses–
Roses which wither
In face of with’ring
So young!
Crown me with roses
And with fleeting leaves.
That’s all.
https://intranslation.brooklynrail.o...rnando-pessoa/
"Droning a drowsy syncopated tune," - Langston Hughes; The Weary Blues... https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/20...angston-hughes
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Glad you enjoyed Fernando Pessoa. For me he is the best Portuguese Poet I prefer him even to the classical Camões. He had an English Phase too, during his stay in Great Britain. Not so satisfied with the translations though.
https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Po.../PDF/I8A22.pdf
Enjoyed the musicallity of Hughes Poem.
"Eagle-heart, child-heart, bonnie lad o' dreams," Love And Art by Charles Hamilton Musgrove
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-and-art-27830
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Choice between love and art seems rather drastic... otherwise enjoyed
"Flying fireworks" - McKenna L. Martin; July 4th
... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/july-4th
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Agree. Why have only one if you can have both?
"Flying fireworks" Concise Poem!
"Gaily bedight," Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com.../eldorado-1710
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
True.
Enjoyed
"“How do you feel?” I ask again. I, knowing the answer, poke my head" - Allesha Eman; Double Meaning... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/4097172/double-meaning/
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
According to the legends El Dorado also existed somewhere in South America. In a sense we can say that we live in different El Dorados.
“How do you feel?”Dramatic poem.
"I dreamed an angel, Angel twice, through death,"I dreamed an angel, Angel twice, through death...by Anne Whitney
https://www.litscape.com/author/Anne...ugh_Death.html
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Enjoyed
"John Kepler, from the chimney corner, watched" - Alfred Noyes; Kepler... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-noyes/kepler
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Charming Kepler "fable".
"Kittens large and Kittens small," Foreign Kittens by Oliver Herford
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-kittens-18463
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
"Luna is a female cat from the neighbourhood" - Sylvia Frances Chan; Our Neighbour's Cat... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/our-neighbours-cat/
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Cute poem, though nothing surpasses the picture of Luna herself, "peacefully" sleeping. Small mistake here - wait- waited ? :"when she was younger,/she just dropped in and wait,"
Cheating a bit, turning "M" upside down, but the poem is so fitting.
"Winter. Time to eat fat" February by Margareth Atwood.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-56d2288025b1e
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Most appropriate: "Make it be spring."
"Never was bird, spoil'd of its young, more sad," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet Cxc
Passer mai solitario in alcun tetto. FAR FROM HIS BELOVED, LIFE IS MISERABLE BY NIGHT AS BY DAY.... https://internetpoem.com/francesco-p...nnet-cxc-poem/
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tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
"Never was bird, spoil'd of its young, more sad," Aaiii!
"O a fat turkey gobbler once sat on a limb" The Sad Turkey Gobbler by Edwin C. Ranck
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-gobbler-29031
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Poor turkey
"Prate not to me so much of suns and of nebulous bodies;" - Friedrich Schiller; To Astronomers... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ronomers-30584
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
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