Liked it very much! It conveys a feeling of a peaceful, industrious, rounded up existence.
"VERSE, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying" Youth and Age by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Liked it very much! It conveys a feeling of a peaceful, industrious, rounded up existence.
"VERSE, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying" Youth and Age by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"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
A sad lament of growing old (sigh).
"wisteria in the spring" - wordvango Oct 2017 Wisteria...
https://hellopoetry.com/words/wisteria/
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
Liked specially the second poem about the wisteria girl!
Didnīt find a first line beginning with "X" but at least a title:
Xenophanes
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave
One scent to hyson and to wall-flower,
One sound to pine-groves and to waterfalls,
One aspect to the desert and the lake.
It was her stern necessity: all things
Are of one pattern made; bird, beast and flower,
Song, picture, form, space, thought and character
Deceive us, seeming to be many things,
And are but one. Beheld far off, they part
As God and devil; bring them to the mind,
They dull its edge with their monotony.
To know one element, explore another,
And in the second reappears the first.
The specious panorama of a year
But multiplies the image of a day,--
A belt of mirrors round a taper's flame;
And universal Nature, through her vast
And crowded whole, an infinite paroquet,
Repeats one note.
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...nophanes-15292
"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
Cool poem - way over my head. Googled and found these bios to help with my inadequate knowledge of (their) philosophies:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/xenophanes/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emerson/
"Yellow suits. He wore yellow suits. To work, to mourn. He wore yellow" - S K Garcia Apr 2016 Yellow Suits
https://hellopoetry.com/words/yellow/
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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
Thanks for the links, taylor. I'll have to go back to them, didnīt know anything about him either. Maybe the basic idea of the poem is contained here: "all things
Are of one pattern made; bird, beast and flower,
Song, picture, form, space, thought and character". It seems that everything in the universe is a variant of akind of basic stuff or substance.
Like those poems about yellow.
No many choices "Zacho the King rode out of old".Zacho the King rode out of old by James Elroy Flecker
"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
... perhaps this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ylem ... which brings to mind a funny (to me) story:Maybe the basic idea of the poem is contained here: "all things
Are of one pattern made; bird, beast and flower,
Song, picture, form, space, thought and character". It seems that everything in the universe is a variant of akind of basic stuff or substance.
Like those poems about yellow.... and more to he same article that's pretty cool: https://www.jpost.com/blogs/through-...ds-dirt-386925There’s an old joke about human arrogance. One day a group of scientists got together and decided that humanity had come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one scientist to go and tell Him that they were done with Him. The scientist walked up to God and said, “God, we've decided that we no longer need you. We’re to the point where we can clone people, manipulate atoms, build molecules, fly through space, and do many other miraculous things. So why don’t you just go away and mind your own business from now on?”
God listened very patiently and kindly to the man. After the scientist was done talking, God said, “Very well. How about this? Before I go, let’s say we have a human-making contest.” To which the scientist replied, “Okay, we can handle that!”
“But,” God added, “we’re going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam.”
The scientist nodded, “Sure, no problem” and bent down and picked up a handful of dirt. God wagged a finger at him and said, “Uh, uh, uh. Put that down. You go find your own dirt.”
Zacho is a name I've never come across before... https://englishverse.com/poems/the_ballad_of_zacho
... enjoyed. Added to my mental list of encounters with the ferryman
"A little girl" - Masha Yurkevich Mar 2019 Two Apples... a sweet, sweet poem !
https://hellopoetry.com/words/apples/
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
Sweet, indeed! "Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind" From King Lear by Shakespeare I think.
https://englishverse.com/poems/blow_...ou_winter_wind
"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
Cool poem
"Carrot dances in a sweat" - author: Dreams of Sepia Sep 2015 Cabbage Soup...
https://hellopoetry.com/words/cabbage/
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
Liked the Hello. poems site but when I click on a word it tells me "Bad gateway 502.
"DEAR! of all happy in the hour, most blest". Safety by Rupert Brooks
https://englishverse.com/poems/safety
"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
Sorry about the bad gateway... odd; works for me; must be a regional thing again.
The poem by Rupert Brooks is very poignant.
"Eggplant entity" - Caren Krutsinger Eggplant Entity...
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/eggplant_entity_1239730
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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
Enjoyed the eggplant poem. Eggplant is a favorite with me.
A bit dismal, but there arenīt so many first lines starting with "f". "Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;". Fall leaves fall by Emily Brontë.
Fall leaves fall
by Emily Brontë
Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.
I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
I shall sing when night's decay
Ushers in a drearier day.
https://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/po...aves_fall_1667
"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
I agree... Emily must have been feeling a bit morose at the time (if she was the protagonist that is).
"Gravy boats filled with piping hot gravy" - Elizabeth Squires Jun 2013 Gravy...Pleiades...
https://hellopoetry.com/words/gravy/
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
Lol! Did you write this before lunch?
"He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark". Disabled by Wilfred Owen.
https://hellopoetry.com/poets/wilfred-owen/
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"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
re: before lunch (lol). Wilfred Owen's poem is quite poignant about the consequences of war, mentally and physically - both of which he was spared from by his death (as I read from his bio) just a week before the end of WWI. A shame the poet Yeats disparaged him so.
"I've pitched my tent close to"- Sonya Ki Tomlinson Jun 2014 Igloo...
https://hellopoetry.com/words/igloo/
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
Beautiful!
" Igloo
Sonya Ki Tomlinson
I've pitched my tent close to
the cloistered stars
where the cool breath of heaven
caresses my cloud capped face
and my heart can exile
her pain in the uninhabited
sterling stillness
no footprints lead to my door
in this endless white tundra
not even an echo enters
silent black pearl
crystallized, suspended
inanimate
exhaled
but I am not lost"
https://hellopoetry.com/words/igloo/
"Just now the lilac is in bloom". The Old Vicarage, Grantchester by Rupert Brooke: https://englishverse.com/poems/the_o...e_grantchester
"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
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