Seems familiar, and yet an appropriate poem... I love the way it starts: "On the day the world ends / A bee circles a clover,"
"Picasso" - e.e. cummings; Portraits III... https://cummings.ee/book/xli-poems/poem/portraits-iii/
Seems familiar, and yet an appropriate poem... I love the way it starts: "On the day the world ends / A bee circles a clover,"
"Picasso" - e.e. cummings; Portraits III... https://cummings.ee/book/xli-poems/poem/portraits-iii/
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
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7-8-2015
"Picasso"- a very original take.
"Queen of my tub, I merrily sing," A Song From The Suds by Louisa May Alcott
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...the-suds-12639
"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
Cheerful poem
"Revolution is the Pod" - Emily Dickinson; Revolution is the Pod... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogs...attle-pod.html
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
"Revolution is the Pod" - Botanical poem
"The Sea called--I lay on the rocks and said:" Sea by Katherine Mansfield
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...eld/poems/2805
"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 beckoning by the sea... most alluring: I remember.
"There was a sound of music low--" - Fannie Isabelle Sherrick; Falling Leaves.... https://www.poetrycat.com/fannie-isa...falling-leaves
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
Falling Leaves....Beautiful nostalgia!
"Unhappy about some far off things" The Stars Go Over The Lonely Ocean by Robinson Jeffers
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...rs/poems/17089
"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
Piggie philosophy at its best ! (4-500 years ought to do it)
"Vex not thou the poet’s mind" - Alfred Tennyson; The Poet’s Mind... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-ten...the-poets-mind
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. Is the Tennyson poem an answer to Jeffers'?
"Walking by moonlight on the golden margin" Fragment by Frances Anne Kemble
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...fragment-21510
"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: T & J - lol !
re: "Walking by moonlight on the golden margin" - marvelous fantasy poetry; I was captured in the moment
Exhausted my 'X' queue of first lines... the next poem follows within the spirit of 'X':
"And in the outer world, the first, something smooth and" - Oliver de la Paz; Solve for X... https://poets.org/poem/solve-x
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
Solve for X - Very original take on X!
"YOU spotted snakes with double tongue," Fairy Land by William Shakespeare
https://englishverse.com/poems/fairy_land_ii
"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
Interesting, Shakespeare invoking Philomel as did Eliot in The Wasteland hundreds of years later with tersely contrasting style. The "Lulla, lulla, lullaby; lulla, lulla, lullaby!" grated a bit on me a bit but then I hearkened back to Eliot's "Weialala leia / Wallala leialala / ... Weialala leia / Wallala leialala / ... la la", though not in the same context.
"ZZ Top was right" - Robert Heemstra; Sharp Dressed Man... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/shar...sed_man_476119
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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
Could Eliot be making a reference to Shakespeare's song? I´m not sure, but if I remember it rightly this is the song that puts fairy Queen Titania to sleep in "A Summer Night's Dream", therefore the lullabying.
Lol! A sharp Z poem!
"A Rock, A River, A Tree" The Rock Cries Out to Us Today by Maya Angelou
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...elou/poems/506
"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
Possibly... will have to delve deeper. Here is one reference to Eliot and Shakespeare that doesn't answer the question... http://theshakespeareblog.com/2014/0...d-shakespeare/
"Barbara's eyes are blue as azure," - Shel Silverstein; Won't You?... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/po...el-silverstein
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 link, tailor, it shows anyway that Eliot was influenced by Shakespeare.
Lol! Won't You?...Cute poem!
"Calling, the heron flies athwart the blue" The Creek-Road by Madison Julius Cawein
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...eek-road-37005
"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
In The Wasteland Eliot called upon, or alluded to, many literary works. Being not nearly literary literate as Eliot, I was lost without all my study in another thread.
Lovely poem by MJC... I read it once then reread it personalizing it from a story my Mother told me just before she died whereas she went walkabout, truant with her dog in the English countryside as a young girl
"Did they send me away from my cat and my wife" - Randall Jarrell Gunner... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/gunner/
tailor
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what if I were to bare my soul
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7-8-2015
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