Wonderful haikus
"October's leaf was sere" - Nora Pembroke; Tecumthe ... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/tecumthe
Wonderful haikus
"October's leaf was sere" - Nora Pembroke; Tecumthe ... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/tecumthe
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
I found some historical background to Nora Pembroke`s poem:
"Tecumseh (/tɪˈkʌmsə, -si/ tih-KUM-sə, -see; c. 1768 – October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and promoting intertribal unity. Even though his efforts to unite Native Americans ended with his death in the War of 1812, he became an iconic folk hero in American, Indigenous, and Canadian popular history."
About the war of 1812:
"In 1805, Tecumseh's younger brother Tenskwatawa, who came to be known as the Shawnee Prophet, founded a religious movement that called upon Native Americans to reject European influences and return to a more traditional lifestyle. In 1808, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa established Prophetstown, a village in present-day Indiana, that grew into a large, multi-tribal community. Tecumseh traveled constantly, spreading the Prophet's message and eclipsing his brother in prominence. Tecumseh proclaimed that Native Americans owned their lands in common and urged tribes not to cede more territory unless all agreed. His message alarmed American leaders as well as Native leaders who sought accommodation with the United States. In 1811, when Tecumseh was in the South recruiting allies, Americans under William Henry Harrison defeated Tenskwatawa at the Battle of Tippecanoe and destroyed Prophetstown.
In the War of 1812, Tecumseh joined his cause with the British, recruited warriors, and helped capture Detroit in August 1812. The following year he led an unsuccessful campaign against the United States in Ohio and Indiana. When U.S. naval forces took control of Lake Erie in 1813, Tecumseh reluctantly retreated with the British into Upper Canada, where American forces engaged them at the Battle of the Thames on October 5, 1813, in which Tecumseh was killed. His death caused his confederacy to collapse. The lands he had fought to defend were eventually ceded to the U.S. government. His legacy as one of the most celebrated Native Americans in history grew in the years after his death, although details of his life have often been obscured by mythology."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh
"Pale amber sunlight falls across". "Autumnal" by Ernest Christopher Dowson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...autumnal-14246
"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
Thanks for the citation and link... an incredible account of Tecumseh and his struggles for an Indian Nation.
Wonderful Autumn poem... ours has started with a longed for mildness
"Quarantine, necessary," - Emmorrison; Quarantine... https://www.poetry.com/poem/105336/quarantine
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
"Quarantine...". To the point. And congrats for finding a "Q" poem.
"Remember the sky that you were born under,"."Remember" by Joy Harjo
https://poets.org/poem/remember-0
"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 this anaphora poem by Joy Harjo
"Someone embraces me" - Vasko Popa; In The Village Of My Ancestors... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22629
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
"In The Village Of My Ancestors...", great poem!
"The hand that signed the paper felled a city;"."The Hand that Signed the Paper" by Dylan Thomas
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-30882
"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
"Hands have no tears to flow." nor have a consciousEnjoyed
"Unslept hours--long and weary visit me" - Eliseo Guerrero Cervantes; Quod... https://www.poetry.com/poem/82517/quod
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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
"Quod...".Ai!
"Rain and rain! and rain and rain!". "We To Sigh Instead Of Sing" by James Whitcomb Riley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-of-sing-29404
"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
Lovely poem
"Sadly, O, sadly, the sweet bells of Baddeley" - Walter De La Mare; Sadly, O, Sadly... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-o-sadly-33306
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
Ditto!
"To fish from a cloud in the sky"."Cloud Fishing" by Phillis Levin
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/cloud-fishing/
"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
Very imaginative... Enjoyed !
"Understanding displacement" - Will Alexander; Living Detritus... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...iving-detritus
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
Living Detritus.Very experimental and original.
"Vogelweid the Minnesinger,".Walter Von Der Vogelweid by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ogelweid-24153
"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
Wonderful poem... until the birds were ignored.
"Why Brownlee left, and where he went," - Paul Muldoon; Why Brownlee Left... https://www.poetrycat.com/paul-muldo...-brownlee-left
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
Why Brownlee Left... Perplexing poem
A poem by Yu Xiuhua
"In Autumn
like I wanted, autumn bites me
and then gives me a long time: watches my wound swell, fester, heal
It says: “a commoner like you deserves a little pain,
deserves this slow, cultured agony” and
hands it over to the fallen leaves
in a nation where the red moon never sinks
some people swaddle daybreak in tattered clothes
bury the harvest deep in the ground to forget
they assemble in the streets
discuss unissued national laws
the arches of their feet, too, have wounds
blood flows from every street toward the People’s Square
the autumn wind has blown across their cheeks
those loved ones long separated from me—
I am afraid to recognize them"
https://clt.oucreate.com/poems/twelve-poems/
"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: Brownlee - I agree...
EnjoyedAn insight into Yu:
• https://abilitymagazine.com/poetic-d...ion-yu-xiuhua/
• https://theasiadialogue.com/2017/12/...ife-by-poetry/
• https://www.shs-conferences.org/arti...2023_03004.pdf
"Your birth was the blessing of trillion stars" -
DEEPAK KUMAR PATTANAYAK; How Could You Know How You Came Here... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/how-...you-came-here/
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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