Alphabetical Poem First Lines

[Danik 2016]

Liked: "Quick-flowing creamy light and all cohering:"

"Redbirds, redbirds," Redbirds by Sara Teasdale

[tailor STATELY]

re: "Redbirds, redbirds," - enjoyed :)

"Sleep on, sleep on, another hour —" - E.A. Poe For the Baltimore Visiter. TO ———....
https://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/to03a.htm

[Danik 2016]

Beautiful (and I don´t like Poe)!Hope you are getting more sleep!

"The memory of my father is wrapped up in" My Father by Yehuda Amichai

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/yehuda_amichai/poems/51

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... I think I cat napped for a bit this morning... going to bed about 7:30 am.

Amazing short poem by Yehuda Amichai :)

"Unknown with passing away, she put" - Catharina Boer Utrecht... http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2509/utrecht.html

[Danik 2016]

This atlas only informs the first line and the title of the poem. The poem itself it gently informs is under copyright.

"Vanish, dark clouds on high," Chorus Of Spirits by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/chorus-of-spirits-16817

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Must be the difference in copyright laws here and there... I'll go ahead and stop linking to that site :(

"Vanish...": delightful :)

"Within the long grass where I lay" - Andrew Blakemore Long Grass... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/long-grass/

[Danik 2016]

Thanks, tailor! Yes I think so too, because in the Google selection, the beginning of the poems appear!
Long Grass...a very bucolic poem, one needs these respites!

"Yellowish-grey sand, soft at the top, hard, grating below " The Sphinx , Ivan Turgeniev
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-31630

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Intriguing poem... did some quick study on Turgeniev and after a read or two found some more of his short story/prose/poems here of all places: http://www.online-literature.com/turgenev/2707/ :)

"Zeus is in a bad mood" - Linda Frances Zeus the God of the Sky... https://www.lineofpoetry.com/linda-frances/zeus-the-god-of-the-sky

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the Turgeniev link. I have read some of his short stories but I didn´t know he was also a poet.
Enjoyed the climate change poem, ha,ha!

A curious poem: "All those times I was bored". Bored by Margaret Atwood

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/margaret_atwood/poems/324

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I agree... found an analysis of the poem that may be of interest... https://poemanalysis.com/margaret-atwood/bored/

"brash talk on sidewalk" - Hari Alluri area boys... https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/area-boys

[Danik 2016]

re: Bored .Thanks for the interesting analysis. What got me is how the feeling expressed in the poem went against the title. As we would say in Brazil, the narrator "was happy and didn´t know it".

Enjoyed Area Boys light irreverence. And the author adhered to our occasional esthetical mean ;):
to three generation base-/ment epithets we remain.

"Conchita debemos to speak totalmente in English" Doña Josefina Counsels Doña Conceptión Before Entering Searsby Maurice Kilwein Guevara
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/dona-josefina-counsels-dona-conception-entering-sears?language=fr

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lol... love the Brasilian expression: "was happy and didn´t know it"

re: "Conchita debemos to speak totalmente in English"... lololololololololololololololololol !!!

"darkly fills all the space" - Bonnie Manion The Iowa River at Floodstage... http://www.bonniemanion.com/poems.php ... "Nature" heading/ 2nd column/ near end

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the modern river poem by Bonnie Mannion. Thanks for seeking the authors page, tailor ( I stand rebuked) as the poetry atlas works here only as atlas.

Explored this poet´s page "Every newborn"- What Every Newborn Knows also by Bonnie Manion

bonniemanion.com/poems/poem.php?id=54

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Sweet poem of innocence :)

More Bonnie Manion... "flooring, though manmade," Terrazo
http://www.bonniemanion.com/poems/poem.php?id=325

[Danik 2016]

Interesting. The poem itself is a flood of words.
"G'way an' quit dat noise, Miss Lucy--" When Malindy Sings by Paul Laurence Dunbar
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/paul-laurence-dunbar/when-malindy-sings-14833

Had a look at the poets site, I thought this was Scottish dialect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laurence_Dunbar

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Enjoyed his dialectic tone, it's something I try to convey with much less effect in my few dialectical poems. Such a promising career cut short through disease.

"Hadst thou wished for things good or noble and had not" - Sappho... https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/sappho/sappho1.htm#26

[Danik 2016]

Interesting fragment. Never read Sap pho before
"In the middle of our porridge plates" Butterfly Laughter by Katherine Mansfield
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/katherine_mansfield/poems/2738

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Delightful poem :) I once had dinner at my old Bishop's home, a finer dinner than I'd had in quite a while, when someone remarked that I shouldn't eat the plate's decoration (lol).

"Jingzhou Dongwu mutual meet water for place" - Meng Haoran Seeing Off Du Shisi South of the River... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/seeing-off-du-shisi-south-of-the-river/

[Danik 2016]

Beautiful!

"King David was a sorrowful man:". King David by Walter De La Mare
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/walter-de-la-mare/king-david-33418

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Touching poem. Our Monday evening FHE group and Sunday School is studying the Old Testament this year and we're in the middle of the Books of Psalms, so this poem is quite timely :)

"Leaves swoon" - Rajinder Apr 2018 On a foggy morning... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2446265/on-a-foggy-morning/

[Danik 2016]

"Leaves swoon", synthetic and charming

"My grandmother puts her feet in the sink" My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Searsby Mohja Kahf
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/my-grandmother-washes-her-feet-sink-bathroom-sears?language=fr

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Loving poem depicting a clash of cultures... enjoyed :)

"Now this particular girl" - Sylvia Plath Spinster... https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/spinster

[Danik 2016]

A very insightful and original poem!
"Once more, my now bewildered Dove". Once more my now bewildered Dove by Emily Dickinson
https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/once-more-my-now-bewildered-dove

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Lovely poem... more complex at second glance: http://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.com/2011/08/f-65-1859.html

"Poetry is like flowers in the rain" - Rini Shibu Flowers in the Rain... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/flowers-in-the-rain/

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the link, tailor. Loved the comment on Dickinson's poem specially the Columba/ Columbos part of it.
"Poetry is like flowers in the rain" -delicate poem :)

Breaking the rule of first line with Q by Michael McFee
https://poets.org/poem/q-1

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An homage to "Q" :)

A List Poem:

"Random Link Clicker." - Suzanne Buffam Dream Jobs...
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/dream-jobs

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed this list poem!

Sadness came to me for a cup of tea. Sadness came to me for a cup of tea by Alla Bordakh
https://www.poetry.com/poem/107319/sadness-came-to-me-for-a-cup-of-tea

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Sweet poem... singing really does raise one's spirits; "magic cookies" (lol)

"Take this kiss upon the brow!" - E.A. Poe A Dream within a Dream... https://poemanalysis.com/edgar-allan-poe/a-dream-within-a-dream/

[Danik 2016]

That´s beautiful! Had no idea that Poe wrote such warm poems. There seems to be an echo of Calderon de la Barca here: "Life is a dream and the dreams are but dreams".

Just cited her above, but, besides of her being an exceptional poet, her first lines travel trough the alphabet. So:

Unable are the Loved to die. Unable are the Loved to die by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poetry.com/poem/12388/unable-are-the-loved-to-die

[tailor STATELY]

So True :)

"Visual world not exactly shaped –" - Yoko Ono Color Piece... https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/color-piece

[Danik 2016]

john Lennon´s Yoko Ono! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ono

"Waiting for an epiphany," Waiting For An Epiphany by Kurt Philip Behm
https://www.poetry.com/poem/43802/waiting-for-an-epiphany

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Yoko: :)
"Waiting for an epiphany," - very minimalistic :)

"Xmas light angel sparkling bright" - James Bradley McCallum Apr 2020 Rooftop Angel...
https://hellopoetry.com/poem/3825909/rooftop-angel/

[Danik 2016]

Delicate poem!:)

"You gasp, awakened by". School for the Deaf by Adam Pottle
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/school-deaf

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Sad poem... can't even imagine.

"Zoning." - Jerry Wayne Lawrence, Jr. Z.O.N.E.... https://www.poetry.com/poem/118387/z.o.n.e.

[Danik 2016]

Interesting acrostic. By the way: If one wants one can become member of poetry.com and send ones own poems, I only don´t know if it´s free.

"A bird came down the walk:" A bird came down by Emily Dickinson

https://www.poetry.com/poem/11413/a-bird-came-down

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Beautiful poem :)

"Besides the autumn poets sing," - Emily Dickinson Part Two: Nature XLIX... https://www.bartleby.com/113/2049.html

[Danik 2016]

The more I read poems by Dickinson, the more I like them.

"The camel-backs of Peavine," Camelbacks of Peavine by Francis M. Faber Jr./Hayward C. Beach/WerterBuch/Zygmunt Zikorra/Hans Fabermann/Frances Marie Fabre.

https://www.poetry.com/poem/44049/camelbacks-of-peavine

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Very much enjoyed :) https://sierranevadageotourism.org/entries/virginia-city-international-camel-races/d516260a-704b-4f4c-a317-9b0e7be3ca93

"The double moon, one on the high back drop of the west, one on the curve of the" - Carl Sandburg River Moons... https://www.bartleby.com/231/0525.html

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:lol::)https://sierranevadageotourism.org/entries/virginia-city-international-camel-races/d516260a-704b-4f4c-a317-9b0e7be3ca93
The things you dig up!

River moons...! Beautiful poem!

"Everyone suddenly burst out singing;" Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon
https://poets.org/poem/everyone-sang

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Had to rely on an analysis of Everyone Sang... https://literarydevices.net/everyone-sang/

"Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers," - Edgar Allan Poe To Zante... https://poets.org/poem/zante#:~:text=Fair%20isle%2C%20that%20from%20the,s cenes%20of%20what%20departed%20bliss!

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the thread. I just though the poem might refer to war, but it provided the background.
I think I prefer Poe´s poems to his short stories.

"GUDE pity me, because I’m little!" Adam Armour’s Prayer by Robert Burns
https://www.bartleby.com/6/79.html

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A reference to William Wallace... one of my great Grandfathers was named after him. :) A bawdy poem if ever I read.

""Halt! Who goes there?" the sentry's call" - Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson Santa Claus... https://www.poetry.com/poem/2593/santa-claus

[Danik 2016]

Reread the poem. Indeed! I must have read it in a hurry without understanding much( Iliked the Scottish dialect) or I wouldn´t have chosen it.:blush2:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wallace. Have you Scottish ascendancy?

Enjoyed the Christmas poem.

"It goes on being Alexandria still. Just walk a bit" Exiles by Constantine P. Cavafy
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/constantine_p__cavafy/poems/6523

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Yes to Scottish ancestry on my Father's side... possibly on my Mother's side - but mostly English & Irish there. :)

Cavafy is quite a surprise... found a webpage that explains the poet and his poem (about halfway down the page). Humor and history, amongst others, a recurring theme. I laughed inwardly with this passage from another poem:
The speaker of “In a Township of Asia Minor” has just dictated a lavishly flattering proclamation in honor of Anthony’s anticipated victory at Actium. Learning that Octavius has defeated Anthony, the speaker merely instructs his amanuensis to substitute Octavius’s name for Anthony’s, adding “It all fits brilliantly.”

"Just dont taste good." - Joe Poewhit I Want Water... https://poemfull.com/joe-poewhit/i-want-water/index.html

[Danik 2016]

LoL! Cavafy seems to be very familiar with politics! While I write I can hear the political propaganda outside. Elections next month maybe the most important of our republican times. Asking for prayers!

"I want water" is an interesting and very opportune poem.

"THE keen stars were twinkling,"To Jane: The Keen Stars Were Twinklingby Percy Bysshe Shelley
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/shell01.html#7

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Wonderful poem: "Where music and moonlight and feeling / Are one." :)

"Lighting one candle" - Yosa Buson Lighting one candle... https://www.best-poems.net/yosa_buson/lighting_one_candle.html

[Danik 2016]

Synthetic and to the point.

Again saved by Emily Dickinson:

"Mama never forgets her birds," Mama never forgets her birds by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poetry.com/poem/11940/mama-never-forgets-her-birds

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:) L7 "sparrows fall" and L8 "notices" in quotes an interesting device.

"Now Morning from her orient chamber came," - John Keats Imitation of Spenser... http://keats-poems.com/imitation-of-spenser/

[Danik 2016]

I wonder why she used it at all.

"Now Morning from her orient chamber came," Luxuriously romantic!

"O my grandmother" O My Grandmother by Shashikant Sharma

https://www.poetry.com/poem/80569/o-my-grandmother

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Sweet homage to Grandmother :)

"Put heartbreak to rest" - Harpreet M. Dayal Put Heartbreak To Rest... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/put-heartbreak-to-rest

[Danik 2016]

A wise poem!

"QUICKLY and pleasantly the seasons blow" Quickly and pleasantly the seasons blow by Robert Hillyer.

https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/2000/h/hillyer01.html#2

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"Over the meadows of eternity,"... the second line qualifier puts things in perspective. Seasons in their moment seem to take forever.

"Romance who loves to nod and sing" - E.A. Poe Romance... https://poemanalysis.com/edgar-allan-poe/romance/

[Danik 2016]

Why you are conciliating me with Ed.gar Allan Poe. This poem is really interesting and the analysis helpfull

"Sleepwalking she prepared breakfast". To Sylvia Plath by Yahia Lababidi
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/yahia_lababidi/poems/23485

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Lol... I find Poe complex yet accessible, not unlike Emily Dickinson :)

Re: To Sylvia Plath... to portray Sylvia in this light saddens me. However, it also reminded me of our absent poet paperleaves (not by the context of the poem) :)

Ok, something more familiar:

"The leaves were long, the grass was green," - J. R. R. Tolkien Tinuviel... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/j__r__r__tolkien/poems/1876

[Danik 2016]

You are right about "To Sylvia Plath". It doesn´t say anything about her as a poet. It reminds me of a beautiful song ( about poet Alfonsina Storni, an Argentinian poet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonsina_Storni, that drowned herself in the sea:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4H-Jcet1M4. The lyrics are in Spanish, but even so I think it is possible to perceive its beauty specially if the ear is not untrained to Spanish. It identifies the poet with the elements of the sea, asks what new kind of poems she was pursuing and says that she disappeared "dressed in sea".

Enjoyed the "Summernights Dream" atmosphere of Tolkien's poem.

"Under black yew-trees, in the shade," Owls by Charles Baudelaire
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/charles-baudelaire/owls-8981

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Re: Alfonsina Storni -
Though she was known mainly for her poetic works, she also wrote prose, journalistic essays, and drama.... very accomplished as a single mother; a poetic albeit tragic death. Beautiful music and video.

Would love to be able to read and understand Baudelaire's poetry in French: "The owls have kept themselves apart;/Like strange divinities, they dart/The red eye, as they meditate."

"Victor in Drama, Victor in Romance," - Alfred Tennyson To Victor Hugo... https://monadnock.net/tennyson/hugo.html

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed immensely this loving and courteous poem:
"Weird Titan by thy winter weight of years
As yet unbroken, Stormy voice of France!
Who dost not love our England--so they say;
I know not--England, France, all man to be
Will make one people ere man's race be run:
And I, desiring that diviner day,
Yield thee full thanks for thy full courtesy
To younger England in the boy my son.

"Who's that I hear?—It's me—Who?—Your heart" The Debate Between Villon And His Heart by Francois Villon

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/francois_villon/poems/11278

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re: Francois Villon... "Once I'm dead I'll rise above it—
God, what comfort—What wise eloquence—
I've nothing more to tell you—I'll survive without it—"... quite the struggle.

"xanthic:" - Ivy Alvarez X... https://www.ivyalvarez.com/poetry/x/

[Danik 2016]

Interesting words poem!

"Ye in the age gone by", The Gods Of Greece by Friedrich Schiller
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/friedrich-schiller/gods-of-greece-30692

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A very dense poem of Hellenic virtue. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Götter_Griechenlandes
A shorter translated version here (evidently to assuage the critics): https://www.bartleby.com/270/9/2.html

Prolly a repeat...

"Zut! it's two o'clock." - Robert William Service; Noctambule... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/robert-william-service/noctambule-31020

[Danik 2016]

re: Some of Schiller´s poems are very long. This one here the German schoolchildren had to learn by heart (don´t know if they still do):yricstranslate.com/de/das-lied-von-der-glocke-song-bell.html

Enjoyed Noctambule. Don´t remember having read it before:

"A tiger comes to mind. The twilight here" The Other Tiger by Jorge Luis Borges

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/jorge_luis_borges/poems/2934

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Loved "Song of the Bell"... the English translation with its poetic license came out very nice. https://lyricstranslate.com/de/das-lied-von-der-glocke-song-bell.html . I would be hard pressed to memorize this wonderful poem.

I made a document with a more direct translation (without poetic license) using imTranslator side by side with the poetic translation and the original German version in a googledoc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nz2IWPQ9-2o7BOcS0Z7CnZZhSR6wAWIOW49WJOov5Ps/edit?usp=sharing

Jorge Luis Borges works are wonderful; a short article: https://library.csun.edu/SCA/Peek-in-the-Stacks/dreaming-borges

"Between the woods the afternoon" - Alan Alexander Milne; The Mirror... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8518913-The-Mirror-by-A.A.-Milne

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re: "Song of the Bell". I think this first translation tries to emulate the German syntax and the vocabulary of that time, which makes it sound artificial and stilted. Your poetic sensibility promptly detected this. Your translation sounds much more natural and up to date. I would perhaps translate some words a bit differently, for example "cooper paste or brew" instead of "cooper porridge", but I generally prefer it. While looking for letter "c", I came upon this translation, which seems to be much better than the stilted one:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/friedrich_von_schiller/poems/7717

"A child draws the outline of a body." Portrait by Louise Gluck
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/louise_gluck/poems/15770

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Schiller: Will revisit later...

Louise Gluck: Sweet poem :)

"Dick Mid’s large bluish face without eyebrows" - e.e. cummings; “Sonnets—Realities XX”... https://cummings.ee/book/and/poem/sonnets-realities-xx/

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Cummings- a curious poet I learnt to know because of this game. :)

"THE empress of the year, the meadows' queen," June by John Payne
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/payne02.html#8

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Re: Schiller - yes, a more poetic translation

Payne's poem makes me question: who is the bard of Iran ? Perhaps
• Rumi, or
•"Hafez, the bard of Shiraz, is especially beloved and regarded as the premier Persian poet. It is his dīvān that can be found in every home beside the Quran, and every Iranian has at least one — if not many — of his couplets memorized."... or
• "Ferdowsi. Ferdowsi is perhaps Iran's most famous poet, credited for writing the Shahnameh, the national epic of the Persian speaking world and the longest work of epic poetry ever written, composed of more than 60,000 verses." or
• Rūdakī "Often referred to as the father of modern Persian poetry, the ninth-century Persian poet Abū 'Abdallāh Rūdakī (858–ca. 941) is regarded as the first great literary genius of modern Persian and the founder of Persian classical literature. His name is based on his place of birth, the town of Rudak in Tajikistan."
• or...

... Dunno.

"From my distress:" - Sappho; 17... https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/sappho/sappho0.htm#17 ... entire fragment: ""From my distress: let buffeting winds bear it and all care away."

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re: Payne. No idea. There seem to be several good poets.

Sappho with translations from Greek :)

"Gentlest of critics, does your memory hold" To My Mother by Alfred Joyce Kilmer (Joyce)
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/alfred-joyce-kilmer/to-my-mother-21643

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Sweet sonnet :)

"Here I sit," - Brittany Ann; Here I Sit... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/4217164/here-i-sit/

[Danik 2016]

Very much to the point!

"I wish I could take a quiet corner in the heart of my baby's very" Baby's World by Rabindranath Tagore
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/rabindranath_tagore/poems/2206

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Tagore: Wonderful poetry... His poetry translated by himself ! Must follow up on his works :)

"Jazz is a sense of humour:" - Anubis the Philosomancer; J-a-double-z, baby!... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1150316/j-a-double-z-baby/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed this poetic definition of Jazz.

Disregarding a bit the rules because I liked this poem, with "k" in the title:

"Broken ivories". The Keys by Erica Jong.
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/keys

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A self-aware dream of flying done well :)

"The laughter of women sets fire" - Lisel Mueller; The Laughter Of Women... https://www.poetrycat.com/lisel-mueller/the-laughter-of-women

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed immensely!

"Mild The Mist Upon The Hill". Emily Brontë, Mild The Mist Upon The Hill

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mild-the-mist-upon-the-hill/

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A rather melancholy tone... looking back and not forward.

"Noise" - © Divine Tan; Noise... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/noise-3

[Danik 2016]

re: Maybe she was already ill. Emily Brontë died very young.

Interesting Concrete poem.

"O a fat turkey gobbler once sat on a limb" The Sad Turkey Gobbler by Edwin C. Ranck
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/edwin-c-ranck/sad-turkey-gobbler-29031

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Delightful poem... after googling, the quote comes from Elizabeth Akers Allen's poem "Rock Me to Sleep, Mother"... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52071/rock-me-to-sleep wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Akers_Allen#:~:text=Elizabeth%20Akers%20 Allen%20(pen%20name,an%20American%20poet%20and%20j ournalist.

"Parasol trees age side by side," - Meng Jiao; Song Of Fidelity Poem... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/song-of-fidelity/

[Danik 2016]

What a powerful poem is "Rock me to Sleep, Mother". Poor turkey!

"Parasol trees age side by side," A beautiful poem, but does it fit with reality?

"Quaint and forgotten, by an unused road," The Old House by Madison Julius Cawein
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/madison-julius-cawein/old-house-36918

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Parasol trees: Apparently yes and no, as most things are:
The loss of a spouse takes a heavy toll on older adults. Scientists say there are medical as well as other reasons they develop broken heart syndrome. https://www.healthline.com/health/fun-facts-about-the-heart

I think the sentimental/romantic/poetic view is what Meng Jiao is alluding to. I've witnessed the terrible longing a surviving spouse has gone through... the stress on the mind, body, and spirit is quite "stantial" (more than substantial).

The Old House: I find abandoned homes/buildings/etc. fascinating: https://www.treehugger.com/dreamlike-abandoned-settings-reclaimed-nature-4859183

"Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud" - John Keats; Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud... http://keats-poems.com/read-me-a-lesson-muse-and-speak-it-loud/

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Double because of editing

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re: Parasol Trees. My question was really stupid! There is so much beauty in people ageing together, no matter what they´ve gone through together or separately specially in our unstable times.

re: Thanks for the wonderful link, tailor. One wants to set ones feet on the road just to visit these beautiful places.

"Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud". Powerful poem about the mists that surround owns possibilities of knowledge:
"Thus much I know that, a poor witless elf,
I tread on them, — that all my eye doth meet
Is mist and crag, not only on this height,
But in the world of thought and mental might!"

"Soon the present will arrive". Soon by Michael Palmer
https://griffinpoetryprize.com/poem/soon/

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You're welcome :)

Interesting poem... I love living in the future figuratively... cheap motels, however, no longer exist.

"The sun shines bright, the morning's fair," - Patrick Brontë; The Spider and the Fly... https://allpoetry.com/The-Spider-And-The-Fly

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Interesting poem. A tailor find. I was wondering when and where Branwell's poems were published. Here some more about him:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branwell_Bront%C3%AB

"Under a spreading chestnut-tree" he Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
https://poets.org/poem/village-blacksmith

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Actually Branwell's (Branwell Patrick Brontë) Father, Patrick... quite an accomplished family; the patriarch Patrick outlived them all... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Brontë

Classic Longfellow :)

"Venus is sleeping with Fire" - Harry Crosby; Ritual... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ritual-12/

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Yes and he married again, afterwards. beginning a new life, I think in Ireland. But I never knew or forgot completely that he also wrote poetry. This poem can be found in Cottage Poems which can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/author/Bront%C3%AB,+Patrick. Maybe they are of interest for your poetry thursdays as they are moral poems, I liked the spider poem.

Ritual, interesting poem!

"water for dance" evening by W. Jude Aher
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/w__jude_aher/poems/21269

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:) Downloaded the HTML version for later perusal.

Ah, to walk the streets of Paris ! DieterM http://www.online-literature.com/forums/member.php?68850-DieterM was a past contributor to LitNet that lived in Paris last I heard... this poem made me think of him.

As X first line poems are becoming more and more difficult to find... I offer this poem in the spirit of X...
"Hand shaking on the stop-****, she looks" - Imtiaz Dharker; X... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/25/a-climate-change-poem-for-today-x-by-imtiaz-dharker

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re: Remember the Austrian poet, Dieter M quite well, he was still here when I came to LitNet. But the link you posted opens on his still open profile page.

Impressive poem! (but I always have to smile at the censorship of the LitNet algorithm.)
"Yumping over crossings," Stealing A Ride by William F. Kirk
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-f-kirk/stealing-a-ride-21861

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Enjoyed this vernacular poem by yumpin' yimini !:)

This from that website you cannot access I believe :(

"Zen click. Zen click. Zen click." - Annabel Wilson; Provencal... http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/4813/provencal.html

Also published in an issue of the Wanaka Sun (which is just as inaccessible for me) :(

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Lol! What did you do to the website? This time the poem appeared(no VPN), on the side of the usual map. Reminded me of the Florida hurricane but in much smaller version. Thanks!

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes". After great pain, a formal feeling comes – (372) by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47651/after-great-pain-a-formal-feeling-comes-372

(Election day! Going to vote now, accepting prayers and thumbs up. Back later)

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Prayers & Good luck !

Heart wrenching poem by E.D.

"by little accurate saints thickly which tread" - e.e. cummings; Sonnets—Actualities IV... https://cummings.ee/book/tulips-and-chimneys/poem/sonnets-actualities-iv/

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:) "by little accurate saints thickly which tread" - e.e. cummings. A very modern poet. Reminds me a bit of Carlos Drummond the Andrade.

"Cat! who has pass’d thy grand climacteric," To a cat by John Keats
https://www.poeticous.com/keats/to-a-cat

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lol... a 13-line not so positive bumpity cat poem :)

"Dark flower of Cheshire garden," - Ralph Waldo Emerson; Monadnoc From Afar... https://internetpoem.com/ralph-waldo-emerson/monadnoc-from-afar-poem/

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re: True! Didn´t understand the last verse. No cute poems starting with "c" available :(.

"Monadnoc From Afar" A somewhat somber poem. Learned what a monadnock is.

"Early morning over Rouen, hopeful, high, courageous morning,". Rouen (1917) by May Wedderburn Cannan
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/rouen/

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Re: "Monadnoc From Afar"... agree; made a perfect target to mashup for the nonsense thread. I know what a Monadnoc is now too :)

Enjoyed Rouen: a somber toned poem too, as it should be in retrospect.

"Fields beneath a quilt of snow" - Sara Teasdale; In The Train... https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10016742

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re: Monadnoc -lol!

Enjoyed "Fields beneath a quilt of snow". Delicate images.

"Green Snake, when I hung you round my neck". To the Snake (1958) by Denise Levertov
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/to-the-snake/

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Enjoyed :) I imagined a Tiffany, or type, snake necklace as opposed to a real or metaphorical snake: https://www.google.com/search?q=tiffany+green+snake+necklace+with+gold+sc ales&newwindow=1&client=opera&hs=3FR&sxsrf=ALiCzsa00AC1GGgHHAM5TtmMNTLFg8A69Q:166488979 2290&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYkqPl1cb6AhVdk2oFHQngAkUQ_AUoAXoECAEQA w&biw=1242&bih=570&dpr=1.1



"He wasn’t dumb. His intellect was sound" - Wilhelm Busch; Crazy a translation of “Der Narr”... http://satirist.org/poetry/text/me/crazy.html

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Impressive snake necklaces!

Wilhelm Busch! Besides poet one of the best German cartoonists ever. Here is his most famous poem. It´s rather long. If you don´t have the time to read all of it, take a look at the cartoons. It´s worthwhile: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28847/28847-h/28847-h.htm

"I no longer want to consult" The Word by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8594399-The-Word-by-Carlos-Drummond-de-Andrade

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Enjoyed :) Poor poultry... Poor Spitzy :( Poor Tailor ! Poor Master Lämpel !! Poor Uncle Fritz ! "two good brots" - lol... "Master Miller's ducks lol !!!

The Word - Very existential and full of spiritual undertones... enjoyed very much :)

"João loved Teresa who loved Raimundo" - Carlos Drummond de Andrade; The Square Dance... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/square-dance-english-translation-of-quadrilha/

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re: Max and Maurice. Poor, poor Tailor ( with capital "T", for a better resistance) To complete your impressions on German educational books for children here is the English version of Struwwelpeter. I remember being mortally afraid of this book when I was a child.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12116/12116-h/12116-h.htm

Love Square Dance:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veiOlXrC7fU

"Knowest thou the land where bloom the lemon trees,"Mignon by James E. Flecker
https://englishverse.com/poems/mignon

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Square dance video/music was quite nice; very choral.

Read "Struwwelpeter"... I can see why you were "mortally afraid" :(

"Mignon": Dragons !

"Laegaire, son of the king of Connacht, was out one day with the king his father near" - Isabella Augusta
; The Army Of The Sidhe... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/isabella-augusta/army-of-the-sidhe-17057

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Isabella Augusta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gregory. Because of text and theme I thought she was from much earlier times, maybe the late Middle Ages, so I looked her up. An interesting Lady!

Mignon! I stand before a riddle: Mignon is a character Goethe´s novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship). It´s not quite clear to me whether the author of the poem is Goethe or Fletcher, or if one of them is the translator of it.

"The Moon is Up" The Moon is Up by Alfred Noyes
https://allpoetry.com/The-Moon-is-Up

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Re: Isabella Augusta: Very accomplished during her long life !

Re: Mignon... all things point to Goethe: https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-11503; see ("From Goethe" link on your page source also)

Re: "The Moon is Up"... a bit ambivalent about the poem. Granted, a rousing sea shanty/poem, but with knowledge of the history of how they obtained their gold and maintained their governments tends to tarnish the bravado :(

"Now all I have is grief and sadness" - Oton de Granson; If I am grieving, no one ought to blame me... https://books.google.com/books?id=pzbvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=Oton+de+Granson:+Poem+Now+all+I+have+is&source=bl&ots=uXtYHDrjXx&sig=ACfU3U2FqTLIk5R34WCYi_6R3m89bP11mQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiw4YH7jc36AhXIlWoFHboIBHYQ6AF6BQjvARAD# v=onepage&q=Oton%20de%20Granson%3A%20Poem%20Now%20all%20I%20 have%20is&f=false

It's a google book result, hopefully it is accessible... the source page I found the first line had no links ?

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re:The Mignon link denied access. So did the one of the poem of Oton de Granson, but I think you may like this one:
https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/granson-nicholson-grenier-winther-se-je-m%E2%80%99en-dueil-nul-ne-m%E2%80%99en-doit-blasmer (a very sad poem).

"O City, Look the Eastward Way" O City, Look the Eastward Way by Enid Derham
https://www.poetry.com/poem/12749/o-city%2C-look-the-eastward-way

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Re: My links - sorry, especially puzzled why the google book results are not accessible for you.

Re: Oton de Granson - Enjoyed :) Thanks for the link ! I sense a political undertone leading to a loss of favor.

Re: "O, City..." - Wonderful poem :) Australian poet b. 1882 - d. 1941:
While her poetry was influenced by her classical studies, she was one of the earliest Australian writers to recognise the poetry of Emily Dickinson. wikipedia [4]

"Poems must rhyme, so they say, simply isn't true. For there are others with depth" - Thomas Plotz; Poems... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poems-104/

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re; Prolly because I don´t check in with Google Account> Silent war going on between me and Google account. Silent war between me and Google: I log in with my seldom used Google e-mail. Google declares "uncommon activity in your e-mail ( me logging in) and blocks my account from Microsoft, which now belongs to Google. So I avoid using that gmail.

Enid Derham looks promising thanks for looking her up.

Liked the defense of free verse (Plotz)

"QUINQUIREME of Nineveh from distant Ophir, "Cargoes by John Masefield.
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/masef01.html#2

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Nice find :) Cargoes... lol ! A list poem extolling the virtues of Nineveh & Spain vessels' cargo contrasted with a "Dirty British coaster"

"riverly is a flower" - e.e. cummings; Post Impressions II... https://cummings.ee/book/and/poem/post-impressions-ii/

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Thanks! Got the impression. that Cargo was only a part of a larger poem. Love these old travel accounts because those travels were part of Brazilian history.

Interesting dark poem by e.e. cummings
The language reminds me of the German Expressionists:
https://www.lifepersona.com/8-expressionist-poems-of-great-authors

"The sun is set; and in his latest beams" A Summer Day By The Sea by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?28819-Alphabetical-Poem-First-Lines&p=1393382#post1393382

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Enjoyed the link of the expressionistas :)

Your link caught me off guard... chose this one: https://allpoetry.com/A-Summer-Day-By-The-Sea
Dark Muse would like this line: "To some the gravestone of a dead delight," :)

"The poet arrives at the station." - Carlos Drummond de Andrade; Social Notes... included in this wonderful collection: http://maxima-library.org/knigi/knigi/b/349220?format=read

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LOL! The same poem!
Enjoyed the bilingual Drummond so much, several fav poems here!
Fitting for my moment:
"INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FEAR

For the time being we won’t sing of love,
which has fled beyond all undergrounds.
We’ll sing of fear, which sterilizes all hugs.
We won’t sing of hatred, since it doesn’t exist,
only fear exists, our father and our companion,
the dread fear of hinterlands, oceans, deserts,
the fear of soldiers, fear of mothers, fear of churches,
we’ll sing of the fear of dictators, of democrats,
we’ll sing of the fear of death and what’s after death,
then we’ll die of fear,
and fearful yellow flowers will sprout on our tombs."

"UNDER the harvest moon," Under the harvest moon By Carl Sandburg
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/sandb02.html#sand26

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re: Drummond - Enjoying his poetry very much.

re: Sandberg - Enjoyed, an analysis: https://poemanalysis.com/carl-sandburg/under-the-harvest-moon/
... and much I didn't know about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sandburg

"Very fair and full of promise" - Francis Bret Harte; St. Thomas... http://www.public-domain-poetry.com/francis-bret-harte/st-thomas-8740

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re: Drummond. Just put the bilingual anthology in another forum. :)
Ihope re: Enjoyed both links on Sandburg. Swedish ascendancy, liked to change names, held a varied quantity of jobs, two Pulitzers...!!
St. Thomas, so true! Updating Bret Hate. I hope our current world won´t have to follow St. Thomas.:(
" Whose broken window is a cry of art". Boy Breaking Glass by Gwendolyn Brooks
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/boy-breaking-glass/

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:)

Boy Breaking Glass... Wonderful poem; tragic and triumphant of (what I can only imagine) a snippet of the American black experience.

Hopefully not a duplicate:

"Xylophone duet, synchronized strikes" - Chad M. Horn; Xylophone... https://allpoetry.com/poem/13536344-Xylophone-by-Chad-M.-Horn

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Enjoyed "Xylophone"

"You know that house she called home,"A Summer Place (1977) by Anne Stevenson
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/a-summer-place/

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Enjoyed especially: "He worked the place as a farm,
though how, with stones for soil, she never knew.
Partly she hoped he’d been a poet, too.
Why else hang Haystack mountain and its view
from northwest windows?"... with a twist ending :)

"Zephyrus, the god of the wind from the west" - Joseph May; Summer's Zephyr... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/summers_zephyr_625056

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Enjoyed this poem about the four stations !

"Another armored animal--scale" The Pangolin by Marianne Moore
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/marianne_moore/poems/15529.html

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Fascinating poem... Found this document to help me with "The Pangolin": https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA297040309&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=0022281X&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=nysl_oweb&isGeoAuthType=true

"BY a route obscure and lonely," - EA Poe; DREAM-LAND.... https://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/drmlandc.htm

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re:"The Pangolin". Couldn´t access the document (needs signing in) but found this somewhat long comment on the poem:
https://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/criticism/ann-struthers-pangolin

Enjoyed DREAM-LAND, found the reference poem "Ultima Thule"http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/230/ultima-thule.html It seems Atlas poems are now visible to me, don´t ask me why.

"Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings".A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (1979) by Craig Raine
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/a-martian-sends-a-postcard-home/

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Lol... I finally accessed your The Pangolin link... :) ... hey! Sixth times a charm: more insights found !
The pangolin, trying to exist as peacefully as possible in his own world, is an exemplar of a kindly manner. The monks, also exemplars, who worked away peacefully, creating good crafts and at last dying and lining up along the stone mullions, became in the end, part of the design--and the poem is concerned with the overall design in life, in art and in language. and
A Moore poem has its armor, too, the armor of meaning within meaning and the armor of reference within reference, all of it, of course, leading to one conclusion--in this case, a major Christian affirmation.

Craig Raine's poem is delightfully obtuse... enjoyed the analysis after the poem :)

"1) Did the people of Viet Nam" - Denise Levertov; What Were They Like?... https://www.oatridge.co.uk/poems/d/denise-levertov-what-were-they-like.php

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"Did the people of Viet Nam" Beautiful, terrible and very much up to date!

"Even now there are places where a thought might grow" —A Disused Shed in County Wexford (1975)Derek Mahon
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/a-disused-shed-in-county-wexford/

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A very somber poem invoking Treblinka and Pompeii... and mushrooms; mushrooms, and their clouds, most appropriate for these times :(

"Father, father, where are you going" - William Blake; The Little Boy Lost... https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/the-little-boy-lost

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William Blake; The Little Boy LostTouching poem with ample implications!

"Gently fall the shadows gray," Slumber Song by Arthur Macy
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/arthur-macy/slumber-song-38566

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Such a sweet poem :)

"Hushed as the grave is the village, and now from the belfry tower," - Hartwig, Gustav; The Eve of St John: Translated from the German of Gustav Hartwig." trans. Theodore Martin... https://dvpp.uvic.ca/poems/blackwoods/1888/pom_8609_the_eve_of_st_john.html

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A sad but very intense poem. German Victorianism?! I tried to find the German original or, at least, more information about Gustav Hartwig, but wasn´t successful so far. In the German Poets Lexicon Gustav Hartwig was mentioned as the pseudonym of Guſtav Hirſch, but that didn´t help very much as there is no more information about the latter either.

"It was the first gift he ever gave her," The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me (1990) by Eavan Boland
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-black-lace-fan-my-mother-gave-me/

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"it was the first gift... " I'm sensing not the last, poetic tension notwithstanding... enjoyed :)

"Just so, Jesus raps—He does not weary—" - Emily Dickinson; CXXXVII... https://www.bartleby.com/113/5137.html

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Re: Gustav Hartwig... still more research needed. I did find a google book entry with the story of "The Rat-Catcher of Hameln" being attributed to Gustav Hartwig... https://books.google.nl/books?id=xNsLAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA491&lpg=PA491&dq=The+Rat-Catcher+of+Hameln.+By+Gustav+Hartwig&source=bl&ots=pnwQgRKIfI&sig=ACfU3U3ij4p23QWLnx9bYWfUDDpdos26yg&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=The%20Rat-Catcher%20of%20Hameln.%20By%20Gustav%20Hartwig&f=false but you haven't access.

It appears that the story has legs through many authors and iterations.

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re: Gustav Hartwig: Could access the poem. Some curiosities about the Pied Piper, but again, saw no mention of Hartwig:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_Piper_of_Hamelin

re CXXXVII. It isn´t clear to me, who is that "me" that´s speaking. It seems that it is a part of a big poem. But even by going back and forward I didn´t get the whole picture.

"Kept on compromising on life". Kept On Compromising on Life by Noshi Gillani
https://www.poetrytranslation.org/poems/kept-on-compromising-on-life

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Re: Just so, Jesus raps... I found this odd bit: https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogspot.com/2015/12/just-so-jesusraps-clock-tower-show.html from Emily Dickinson Riddles: https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogspot.com/p/index.html (I need to check more into this!)

Re: Kept On... ... intriguing poem.

"Let's compete with our tears," - Meng Jiao; Complaints Poem... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/complaints-6/

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Re re: Just so, Jesus raps...Thanks:)! Oh, I see, figures moving at a mechanical clock show!

"More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out" Instructions on Not Giving Up1976) by Ada Limón
https://poets.org/poem/instructions-not-giving

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Beautiful poem of rebirth in the age of Limón !

"Nature's lover, pause to see," - Lewis Ringe; Western States: Kanawha, the River, West Va. Excerpt from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's book(s) [i]Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79... https://www.bartleby.com/270/13/560.html

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Western States: Kanawha, the River, West Va.Powerfull poem about the different aspects of the nature of the Kanawha landscape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanawha_River. Been reading about Longfellow, who I for some reason thought, that he was an English poet, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow.

"Out of the night that covers me" Invictus (1875)by W.E. Henley

https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/invictus/

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Re: Longfellow - interesting poet; beloved and maligned. Tragic his wive's deaths.

I tried a quick search for Lewis Ringe the poet of Western States: Kanawha, the River, West Va. with no joy

Bold poem... Found this analysis: https://poemanalysis.com/william-ernest-henley/invictus/

"Poetry can’t be communicated." - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Secret... https://lyricstranslate.com/en/segredo-secret.html-3

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Thanks for the comment on Invictus.

Much enjoyed the poem by Drummond. Some translation suggestions though

"Segredo
A poesia é incomunicável.
Fique torto no seu canto.
Não ame.

Ouço dizer que há tiroteio
ao alcance do nosso corpo.
É a revolução? o amor?
Não diga nada.

Tudo é possível, só eu impossível.
O mar transborda de peixes.
Há homens que andam no mar
como se andassem na rua.
Não conte.

Suponha que um anjo de fogo
varresse a face da terra
e os homens sacrificados
pedissem perdão.
Não peça.


Secret

Poetry is incommunicable.
Remain in your awkward corner
Don't love.

I hear that there is a gunfight
Close to our bodies.
Could it be revolution? Love?
Don't say anything.

Everything is possible, only I am impossible.
The sea overflows with fishes.
There are men who walk on water
as if they walked on the street.
Don't make it known.

Suppose that an angel of fire
would sweep the face of the Earth
and the sacrificed men
asked for forgiveness.
Don't ask."

"Queen of my tub, I merrily sing," A Song From The Suds by Louisa May Alcott
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/louisa-may-alcott/song-from-the-suds-12639

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Agree... your translation flows better.

Re: "Queen..." Prolly didn't have the opportunity of taking the sacrament in answer for S2.

"Raise high the roof beams, Workmen!" - Sappho; Fragment 88... https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/sappho/sappho2.htm#88

Note: "Hymen (Ancient Greek: Ὑμήν), Hymenaios or Hymenaeus, in Hellenistic religion, is a god of marriage ceremonies, inspiring feasts and song." - Wikipedia

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Thanks!

Re, re: "Queen..." Yes, I agree. I didn´,t think of that.

Thanks for the note: We have the word "himeneu" in Portuguese, as a seldom used, very cultivated variant of marriage.

"She stands and knows herself for the first time." The Stopped Train (2007) by Jean Sprackland
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-stopped-train/

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Enjoyed :) "A woman shouts: Why must you be all so British?" tickled me.

"the bucket's water" - Masaoki Shiki; Tanka 06... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tanka-06/

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Charming tanka!

"Under the Light, yet under" Under the Light, yet underby Emily Dickinson (with analysis)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/11/poem-of-the-week-under-the-light-yet-under-by-emily-dickinson

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Curious poem by Emily.
Poem 949 F1068 ‘Under the Light, yet under’
In an ABAB stanza scheme Emily reiterates the distance between the dead and the
living. The bodies of the dead are still ‘under the Light’ of the sun, but they are also
under the ground. The souls of the dead are further than the stretch of a Giant’s arm or
the distance a day’s sunshine could reach if the day was as long as an year. The souls
of the dead are ‘over the Light’ as our eyes look at the sky, but they are also beyond
things out of our sight such as ‘the Arc of the Bird’ of the upward whoosh of a Comet,
and we cannot add cubits to our stature so as to reach them (Matthew6:27). The dead
are too far away for a ‘Guess’ or a ‘Riddle’ to find them. If only the living and the
dead were on the rim of the same disc!
Emily also uses the mysterious ‘Cubit’ when considering space travel in poem
240.... http://www.emilydickinsonpoems.org/Emily_Dickinson_commentary.pdf

I've learned that the veil between the living and the dead can be quite thin sometimes.

"Viswamitra the Magician," - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; King Trisanku... https://www.litscape.com/author/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow/King_Trisanku.html

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"I've learned that the veil between the living and the dead can be quite thin sometimes." Maybe you know about mediunity.

"King Trisanku" interesting comparison.

"While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead".The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter (1915)by Ezra Pound

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"Maybe you know about mediunity" - no, but am fascinated about some accounts/attempts; for instance the séance to bring Harry Houdini to the table :)

re: "While my hair..." - a tender poem; found this: https://poemanalysis.com/ezra-pound/the-river-merchants-wife-a-letter/

"Xenophobia: Apartheid" - Manaledi Lerato Mapena; Xenophobia: Apartheid... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/xenophobia_apartheid_240164

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re:Looked him up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini.

re 2: Thanks for the analysis. I was wondering at the end of the poem.

Incisive African poem. :)

"You saw so much romance in competition,"Maren (2008) by Mick Imlah
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/mar en/

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Re: Maren: Used this link... https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/maren/ - enjoyed :)

A bit of minimalism :) "Zigzag" - Mehta Hasmukh Amathaal; Zigzag... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/zigzag/

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Sorry for the broken link.

Enjoyed "Zigzag"

"Adam, a brown old vulture in the rain," Ancient History by Siegfried Sassoon
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/siegfried_sassoon/poems/16843.html

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De nada :)

Ancient History: an odd take on Adam, Able, and Cain

"Behold an emblem of our human mind" - William Wordsworth; On The Banks Of A Rocky Stream... https://www.litscape.com/author/William_Wordsworth/On_The_Banks_Of_A_Rocky_Stream.html

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Enjoyed

"'CHRIST of the Andes,' Christ of Everywhere," Christ of Everywhere by Henry Van Dyke

Christ of Everywhere

"CHRIST of the Andes," Christ of Everywhere,
Great lover of the hills, the open air,
And patient lover of impatient men
Who blindly strive and sin and strive again, --
Thou Living Word, larger than any creed,
Thou Love Divine, uttered in human deed, --
Oh, teach the world, warring and wandering still,
Thy way of Peace, the foot path of Good Will!

https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/vandyke1.html#6

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Enjoyed :)

"Dear Anne Carson:" - Weyman Chan; But I’m No One / for M. Maylor...
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/im-no-one

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Weyman Chan; But I’m No One -Original poem. Maybe another way of saying with Socrates: "All I know is that I don´t know anything.

"Eventually Geryon learned to write." VI. Ideas by Anne Carson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/158038/vi-ideas

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Bitter sweet poem... enjoyed :)

"Flying north." - Ted Glick; Geese Above the Catskills... https://tedglick.com/poems/geese-above-the-catskills/

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Seems you could make more out of Anne Carson than I did! Again the form reminded me a bit of Yes/No's nano stories.

Enjoyed "Geese Above the Catskills..."!

"Gather the leaves from the forest".Feuilles D'Automne by Duncan Campbell Scott
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/duncan-campbell-scott/feuilles-dautomne-30754

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Enjoyed...
For you cannot rob the memory
Of the leaves it loves the best;
The wind of time may harry them,
It rushes away with the rest.

"has not altered;—" Marianne Moore; Spenser's Ireland... https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/spensers-ireland

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Spenser's Ireland-Interesting poem though many allusions escape me.

A bit long but very helpful analysis:
"Perhaps the most subtle and articulate statement of Irish-America's perception of itself and its ambivalence occurs in Marianne Moore's "Spenser's Ireland," a meditation on Ireland and the Irish and on their influence upon a person who shares with them only the most tenuous of cultural and biological bonds."
http://maps-legacy.org/poets/m_r/moore/ireland.htm

"I have always aspired to a more spacious form". Ars Poetica? by Czeslaw Milosz
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/czeslaw_milosz/poems/15385

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re: "allusions" - me too :) The analyses you linked to helped immensely. Sometimes poetry is a type of mental gymnastics written by the poet that rely on a body of knowledge that the casual reader (me) on first impression is not privy to until further researched... I have found this to be true in studying The Wasteland most especially.

re: ""I have always aspired... "

"The purpose of poetry is to remind us
how difficult it is to remain just one person,
for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors,
and invisible guests come in and out at will." :)

I love ARS Poetica ( https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/ars-poetica ). I've attempted a disappointing few. My favorite of the genre, to date, is by Marianne Moore: Poetry which just happens to start "I, too, dislike it:..." http://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/mm-poetry.htm with analyses here: http://maps-legacy.org/poets/m_r/moore/poetry.htm

"Junior was lucky tonight, I could scarcely eat a bite" - Margaret Alice; 2010/07/23 Imagination... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/2010-07-23-imagination/

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re: I agree with you. I think this is specially true of modern poetry. Older poems have references too, but, at least it seems to me, develop solid themes like "love", "death", "nature" or religious themes which usually can be recognized without much difficulty or parallel studies. With modern poems, special the experimental ones, one sometimes lands in a peculiar universe, where one has to feel more at home to understand what is going on. But that makes them particularly interesting, specially if one has a strong sensibility to guide one as you have.

Yes, Marianne Moore "discusses" with much charm what she considers real poetry :).

Imagination by Margaret Alice- Now is this a poem or an essay or both?

"Love set you going like a fat gold watch. "Morning Song (1961) by Sylvia Plath
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/morning-song/

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Good points... re:Imagination: I'm leaning to both.

re: Sylvia's poem is incredible in the use of language.

"maybe the answer is simple," - Shelby Ensign; The Healing Power Of Mother Nature... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/the-healing-power-of-mother-nature

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The Healing Power Of Mother Nature-Simple and to the point.

"Now in thy dazzling half-oped eye," A Mother to Her Waking Infant (1790)by Joanna Baillie

https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/a-mother-to-her-waking-infant/

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Sweet poem: "Become my sure and cheering stay;
Wilt care for me and be my hold,
When I am weak and old." :)

"One day there passed by a company of cats a wise dog." - Kahlil Gibran; The Wise Dog... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-wise-dog/

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Kahlil Gibran; The Wise Dog...Lol!

"Poetry? It’s a hobby. "What The Chairman Told Tom (1967) by Basil Bunting
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/what-the-chairman-told-tom/

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lol ! - "Nasty little words, nasty long words,
it’s unhealthy.
I want to wash when I meet a poet."

"Quis hic locus, quae regio, quae mundi plaga?" - T. S. Eliot; Marina... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/marina-0

Latin: “What place is this, what region, what area of the world?”

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T. S. Eliot; Marina- Beautiful but difficult poem. Looked for a analysis:https://poemanalysis.com/t-s-eliot/marina/
Maybe the nautical imagery could also be related to the discovery of America: America as a dauther of the British Empire?

"Rose, harsh rose" Sea Rose (1916) by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/sea-rose/

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re: Marina... good find :)

re: Sea Rose... https://www.google.com/search?q=sea+rose&newwindow=1&client=opera&sxsrf=ALiCzsZ-7pXHZNMET5HpNAedqwSxWddsJA:1667533580418&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj5mtfVzpP7AhWBmWoFHQ8xD_0Q_AUoAXoECAYQA w&biw=1242&bih=570&dpr=1.1
wikipedia: Sea rose
Orphium is a plant genus in the Gentian family (Gentianaceae), endemic to South Africa. The name derives from the legendary Greek musician Orpheus. The genus contains a single accepted species, Orphium frutescens, commonly known as the sea rose. From the critique: "Clearly the ‘sea rose’ is an analogue, a metaphor. For the poet herself, perhaps, or for the poetry she writes? For both? The poem is delicate, fragile looking, spare, stoical, as if sculpted in air." - Enjoyed :)

"somebody knew Lincoln somebody Xerxes" - e.e. cummings; Portraits X... https://cummings.ee/book/tulips-and-chimneys/poem/portraits-x/

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re: Link on e e cummings. Have to read more about this poet, reminds me a bit of Carlos Drummond de Andrade:
https://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/cummings/Notes.htm

"To think that, as a boy of thirteen, I would grapple". Pineapples And Pomegranates by Paul Muldoon
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/paul_muldoon/poems/15668

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Good find on ee cummings... I found this which prolly overlaps: https://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/poet/e-e-cummings

Pineapples And Pomegranates a tongue and cheek reality check.

"Unto my books so good to turn" - Emily Dickinson; LXXIV... https://www.bartleby.com/113/1074.html

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Thanks for the link on e e cummings. Interesting modernist poet, have to read more by him.

Charming poem about books by Emily Dickinson. Identified but turned the feelings from my somewhat dusty library to my e-books.

"Valleys lay in sunny vapor," Thanksgiving Turkey by George Parsons Lathrop
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/george-parsons-lathrop/thanksgiving-turkey-22655

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re: Thanksgiving Turkey... not much left unsaid. The repeated "Thanksgiving turkey." in each L6 of every stanza got old quick... otherwise enjoyed :)

"When the tea is brought at five o'clock," - Harold Monro; Milk For The Cat... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/milk-for-the-cat/

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re: You are right. Thanksgiving Turkey is not such a great poem. Chose it more because of the theme.

"Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow!" Sour Grapes by William Carlos Williams
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/wcw-sg3.html#32

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lol... whimsical WCW :)

"Zzzzz" - Mark Toney; 'Za Zucchini Zinfandel... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/za_zucchini_zinfandel_1213939

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Lol! _"Za Zucchini Zinfandel"

"And as to being in a fright," Phantasmagoria by Lewis Carroll
https://www.rd.com/list/funny-poems/

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lol... Enjoyed the first canto and will continue later :)

"Breathing autumn air" - Adele Maritz; Living Season... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/living-season-2

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Living season-US haiku?

"Call me no more, O gentle stream," To a River in the South by Sir Henry John Newbolt
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/sir-henry-john-newbolt/to-a-river-in-the-south-27936

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re: Haiku: definitions are muddled...

• https://thehaikufoundation.org/new-to-haiku-what-is-haiku-2/
• https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-a-haiku-in-4-easy-steps
• https://literaryterms.net/haiku/

To a River in the South... enjoyed this somber toned poem.

"Doctor, you say there are no haloes" - Lisel Mueller; Monet Refuses The Operation...
https://www.poetrycat.com/lisel-mueller/monet-refuses-the-operation

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Thanks for the links, coming back to them!

Loved this poem about painting! Looked up Lisel Mueller up:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisel_Mueller

"Each life converges to some centre" The Goal by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (pay attention to the last lines of each strophe)

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/emily-elizabeth-dickinson/goal-13655

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re: Lisel Mueller - very accomplished poet !

re: The Goal... "A goal, To dare. To touch, The sky! Again." My cousin had delightful sensibilities :)

"‘Ferry me across the water," - Christina Georgina Rossetti; Ferry Me Across The Water... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ferry-me-across-the-water/

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re: :) Ferry Me Across The Water... A new take on the myth of Charon? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon#:~:text=In%20Greek%20mythology%2C%20Charon% 20or,the%20living%20and%20the%20dead.

"GOD says to me with a kind" God's Wheel by Shel Silverstein
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/shel_silverstein/poems/14825

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re: Charon... I don't believe so... seems consistent.

re: God's Wheel... :)

"How beautiful! A garden fair as heaven," - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; The Park... https://www.litscape.com/author/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe/The_Park.html

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Enjoyed The Park...Wondering what park he had in mind.
"I am drunk with the honey wine" Fragment: Wine Of The Fairies by Percy Bysshe Shelley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/percy-bysshe-shelley/fragment-wine-of-the-fairies-31404

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re: "What garden... " perform a Control-F searching for "garden" and then "park" within the following .pdf (after it has fully loaded) to see into the psyche and genius (a small look perhaps) of Goethe and his gardens and parks: file:///D:/Downloads/hellmuth_daniel_f_198612_ms_303179.pdf

re: Fragment: Wine Of The Fairies.... delightful færie tale ! :)

"June's vibrant lace has drifted" - Lady Bird; JUNE (25W)... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1219072/june-25w/

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re:Thanks! I guess you mean the thesis in Architecture Poetry and the Art of Building by Daniel Hellmuth. Wonderful find!
I didn´t know that Goethe´s intense thirst of knowledge extended to the planning and building of gardens! And, at that time, the gardens of prominent people like him weren´t small.

re: JuneCharming Poem

"THE kings they came from out the south," Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/books/teasdale/helen03.html#21

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Wonderful poem... ramping up for Christmas :)

"Last night I lay awake and heard the wind," - Madison Julius Cawein; The Jongleur... https://internetpoem.com/madison-julius-cawein/the-jongleur-poem/

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Enjoyed The Jongleur

"Mirrors are not more silent". To A Cat by Jorge Luis Borges

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/jorge_luis_borges/poems/2930

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Incredible poem :)

"No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist" - John Keats; Ode on Melancholy... https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/ode-on-melancholy

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Beautiful but very sad poem!

"Onion," Ode To The Onion by Pablo Neruda
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/pablo_neruda/poems/15730

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re: Ode to the Onion... A very emotive ode; "You make us cry without hurting us."...

"Photons lacerate the air in waves of ev'ry hue," - Diane Hine; Burning Blue... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/burning-blue-2/

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Burning Blue... Enigmatic Poem

"Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither," Quicksand Years by Walt Whitman
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/walt-whitman/quicksand-years-1093

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Enjoyed :) Found this analysis to give context: https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/encyclopedia/entry_621.html

"Rivers of birdsong" - Richard Grahn; Flowing (Haiku)... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1954601/flowing-haiku/

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re: "Quicksand Years".
"The change in placement of "Quicksand Years" suggests a shift in meaning. In Drum-Taps, Whitman was attempting to capture the spirit and actions of a particular time and place, Civil War America. In this context, the "politics, triumphs, battles" appear to refer particularly to that historical cataclysm, against which only one's own inner self is proof. The poem's repositioning in the "Whispers" cluster changes the referent, for as both Blodgett and Miller point out, this grouping is more deliberately spiritual in emphasis. Miller argues that in this cluster the spiritual is shown to be true reality and the apparently real, mere illusion. Within this context, "Quicksand years" takes on a more universal significance—the concept that when external supports fail, one's only surety is the soul." Interesting how the meaning of the poem changes and it is moved from a collection to the other once the war is over. A proof of the importance of the context in literature.

"Rivers of Birdsong" What a charming Haiku.

"Sandstone" Gargantuan Origination: Inscription for the Collages of Dean Smith by Will Alexander
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/158831/gargantuan-origination-inscription-for-the-collages-of-dean-smith

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re: context... Agree

re: Sandstone... Say what ?

I was looking for a poem on Gummy Bears and found this rather long poem instead :)

"This English Thames is holier far than Rome," - Oscar Wilde; The Burden Of Itys... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1226/the-burden-of-itys/

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Enjoyed! Arcadian idyll against Roman Catholicism, Greek mythology in a nutshell. Found an uncensored version of the poem
https://www.bartleby.com/143/25.html

"Unrisen splendour of the brightest sun" Unrisen splendour of the brightest sun...
by Percy Bysshe Shelley

https://www.litscape.com/author/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley/Unrisen_Splendour_Of_The_Brightest_Sun.html

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re: The Burden Of Itys - The version I linked to is the most egregious and ridiculous example of censorship I've ever seen; organ, weed, virgin, murder, thrust, lusty, slope (yeah, sure), bloody... just crazy in the context of the poem's lines/stanzas. Rant ends here.

re: Unrisen splendour of the brightest sun - reads like a poem about depression to me.

"A void is in the sky!" - Mary Gardiner Horsford; The Lost Pleiad.... https://www.poetrycat.com/mary-gardiner-horsford/the-lost-pleiad

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re: The Burden Of Itys -So You can imagine the perplexity of a non native.

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-lost-pleiad/wAE_B0UkmJ16bw?hl=pt-BR&ms=%7B%22x%22%3A0.5%2C%22y%22%3A0.5%2C%22z%22%3A8. 359045054507131%2C%22size%22%3A%7B%22width%22%3A4. 122917791655906%2C%22height%22%3A1.237500000000000 3%7D%7D

"We came from our own country in a red room" Originally (1990)by Carol Ann Duffy
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/originally/

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Pleides:
https://www.google.com/search?q=pleiades&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwick5fypsD7AhUEAN8KHd3rDToQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=pleiades&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQDDIHCAAQsQMQQzIECAAQQzIFCAAQgAQyBQg AEIAEMgQIABBDMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBAgAEEMyBQgAEIAEM gQIABBDOgcIABCABBAYUMUXWMUXYONMaABwAHgAgAGLD4gB-BmSAQU3LTEuMZgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nwAEB&sclient=img&ei=Ivl7Y5z6OoSA_Abd17fQAw&bih=570&biw=1242&client=opera&hs=R8I

Beautiful statue, perhaps Merope, as I peruse wikipedia: "The loss of one of the sisters, Merope, in some myths may reflect an astronomical event wherein one of the stars in the Pleiades star cluster disappeared from view by the naked eye."... "Merope, youngest of the Pleiades.[19] In other mythic contexts, she married Sisyphus[20] and, becoming mortal, faded away. Merope bore Sisyphus several sons including Glaucus."

re: Originally... I can relate to this poem in more than some little measure. Interesting poet. Enjoyed very much :)

"Xylophone" - Ramesh Anand; Xylophone...
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/xylophone_455369

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"Xylophone" -Interesting nanopoem

"You appear," You by Rafael Cadenas

https://poems.com/poem/you/

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re: You - Incredible poem :)

"Zoning" - Jerry Wayne Lawrence, Jr. Z.O.N.E.... https://www.poetry.com/poem/118387/z.o.n.e.

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Zone- Condensed and to the point.

"America, from a grain" Ode To Maize by Pablo Neruda
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/pablo_neruda/poems/15747

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Great poem :)

"Blest be the day, and blest the month, the year," - Francesco Petrarca; Benedetto sia 'l giorno e 'l mese e l' anno. / He Blesses All the Circumstances of His Passion.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/sonnet-xlvii

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A beautiful poem by Petrarca. I preferred the second version, very fluid. somewhat Shakesperian!

"THE city's all a-shining". Paris in Spring in HELEN OF TROY and OTHER POEMS by Sara Teasdale
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/books/teasdale/helen03.html#13

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Yes, well... https://penandthepad.com/petrarchan-shakespearean-sonnets-different-21847.html

Lighthearted Paris in Spring :)

"Dot a dot dot dot a dot dot" - Eve Merriam; Weather Poem... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/weather-2/

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Enjoyed very much this link, it´s a real lesson on poetry.

"Weather Poem". Charming onomatopoeic poem!
Breaking a bit the rules, but maintaining the spirit of "E"
"Today we celebrate the letter E." "The Letter E" by Jim Yerman
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-letter-e/

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The Letter E: very light hearted poem by a contemporary poet... who evidently died in 2451.

"From the form legs curve up" - Sadiqullah Khan; *delayed Gratification... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/delayed-gratification/

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Lol! I think these poems are numbered!

*delayed Gratification-an intense and beautiful poem!

"Grandmother's mother: her age, I guess," Dorothy Q by Oliver Wendell Holmes
https://www.litscape.com/author/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes/Dorothy_Q.html

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re: Dorothy Q... wonderful family history poem !

"He opens the scullery door, and a sudden rush" - Paul Muldoon; Tell... https://www.poetrycat.com/paul-muldoon/tell

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"Tell" Interesting and intriguing poem. I didn´t find any direct analysis but found the Swiss legend that probably inspired the poem:
"William Tell
The best-known version of the (apple shot) story is in the legend of William Tell, supposedly happening to start off the Swiss revolution, written first in the 15th-century White Book of Sarnen, then in Aegidius Tschudi's 16th-century Chronicon Helveticum, and later the basis for Friedrich Schiller's 1804 play. Tell is arrested for failing to bow in respect to the hat that the newly appointed Austrian Vogt, Albrecht Gessler, has placed on a pole, and Gessler commands him to shoot an apple off his son's head with a single bolt from his crossbow. After splitting the apple with the single shot (supposedly on November 18, 1307), Tell is asked why he took more than one bolt out; at first he responds that it was out of habit, but when assured he will not be killed for answering honestly, says the second bolt was meant for Gessler's heart should he fail. In Schiller's play, the demand to shoot the apple off the boy's head motivates Gessler's murder."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_an_apple_off_one%27s_child%27s_head

"I know a little language of my cat, though Dante says" A Little Language by Robert Duncan
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46322/a-little-language

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Enjoyed the various takes on William Tell, but felt that another layer of the poem needed to be bared...

I tried some research for "Tell" and the phrase ""bloodshed" and the "peelers."" stood out and led me to "peelers" having a propensity for mayhem (oft times as police/bobbies) and ultimately to:

see pg 99 & 100 at https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4987&context=gradschool_dissertations

LSU Doctoral Dissertations Toward a Northern Irish Pastoral: Reading the Rural in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon... Stephanie Jean & Osburn Krassenstein Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.

Robert Duncan's poem also caused a bit of quandary till I discovered his origins... as befitting my curiosity I found a children's intro/bio to his poetic machinations: https://kids.kiddle.co/Robert_Duncan_(poet) ... then words like "rainbow" and the need for a little (separate) language made a little more sense.

"joggle i think will do it although the glad" - e.e. cummings; GERT... https://cummings.ee/book/is-5/poem/five-americans-iii/

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Thanks for the interesting links on Paul Muldoon and Robert Duncan. I´ll take a better look at the Dissertation and also post the link in another forum, where there are fans of Paul Muldoon.

As for Robert Duncan, a unusual life story indeed: "The Symmeses had begun planning for the child's arrival long prior to his adoption. There were terms for his adoption that had to be met: he had to be born at the time and place appointed by the astrologers, his mother was to die shortly after giving birth, and he was to be of Anglo-Saxon Protestant descent."

GERT- This is somewhat familiar. Has ee cummings been writing nonsensical poems by any chance?

"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan". The Riddle Of The World by Alexander Pope
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/alexander-pope/riddle-of-the-world-1679

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re: Duncan... truly an amazing story... who could make this up.

re: GERT... Using my rudimentary searching skills I checked and it hasn't been posted in this thread elsewhere. ee cummings died in 1962 so I don't think he's been posting lately but his oeuvre is extensive.
I almost didn't post this poem, but I've been having problems finding "J" First Lines... the search continues.

re: Pope... enjoyed.

"Light boat short oar west lake good" - Ouyang Xiu: A Light Boat With Short Oars... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-light-boat-with-short-oars/

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re: Gert-Sorry, some misunderstanding here ! What I meant with familiar is that the poem reminded me of our own nonsensical experiments. You didn´t post it before.

re: A Light Boat With Short Oars..- Charming, interesting poem, seems to be about the progress of learning the English language. The scene appears first in telegram style and gets repeated with increasing language resources.

"Mary, art thou the litttle maid" Joseph and Mary by James Elroy Flecker
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/gp1_8.html#joseph

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re: GERT - Ah, ok.

re: re: A Light Boat With Short Oars... Yes, good eye :)

re: Joseph and Mary... a sweet poem; Joseph ending the poem being (rightfully so) distrustful of men with Mary gently reassuring him all is well at this particular juncture. I believe Joseph had a greater understanding than depicted in the poem however.

"Nature's first green is gold," - Robert Frost; Nothing Gold Can Stay... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/nothing-gold-can-stay-by-robert-frost

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re:Joseph and Mary.-I agree that the Joseph of the Bible was not prejudiced, he never would have had that saying about shepherds.

Nothing Gold Can Stay-Beautiful albeit disenchanted poem.

"Of the dark past" Ecce Puer by James Joyce
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/james_joyce/poems/2452

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Ecce Puer - a melancholy poem like the preceding Frost poem.

"Pancho, the barrio idiot." - Jimmy Santiago Baca; Meditations On The South Valley, Part Xxiii... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/meditations-on-the-south-valley-part-xxiii/

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Enjoyed "Meditations On The South Valley" Googled a bit about Baca, to learn more about his doble Spanish/English code.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Santiago_Baca

" "Quee, quee! Quee, Quee! by Louisa May Alcott
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/louisa-may-alcott/quee-quee-12671

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Wonderful little poem :)

"Rest at Night" - Emily Dickinson; Rest at Night... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogspot.com/2015/12/rest-at-night-seclusion.html

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Hope your cold is better. Dentist in the morning. Back later.

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Thanx... cold/other still severe... cannot sleep more than usual. Hoping your dentist visit goes well.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

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Dentist visit ok. I hope you don´t have fever? Have you nourishing food at home? I have the dark suspicion that you live mostly on snacks these days.

The cold
The cold
gets bold
if you don`t fight it with iron hand,
vitamins and enough blankets.

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Going on with alphabetical first lines(editing not possible)

Enjoyed Dickinson´s poem

"SEE yon blithe child that dances in our sight!" The Child by Sara Coleridge
https://englishverse.com/poems/the_child

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Thanx for the advice. Vitamins C, D, B complexes. No fever I believe... severe cough (subsiding), sore throat, sinus and chest congestion, achiness throughout... short sneezy period of time. Snacks... not so much. Healthy food choices?... 3-meals from a store bought rotisserie chicken with a fourth planned for the white meats and carcass in an herb laden soup with a healthy dollop of olive oil (my recipe). Keeping warm stoking the heat stove every 2-3 hours throughout the day/night. Actually got a four hour sleep this morning/early afternoon :) I remain fully vaxed (Bivalent COVID booster and Flu) so this is probably just a very severe cold. Wife is ill now too to add to her miseries :(

Very tender poem by Sara Coleridge.

"To every animal that dwells on earth," - Francesco Petrarca; Sestina I. A qualunque animale alberga in terra. / Night Brings Him No Rest. He is the Prey of Despair.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/sestina-i

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This doesn't sound too bad, specially the four meals. Maybe you and your wife caught it because of the cold. Hopefully you both will recover in a few days.

Grand poem by Petrarca!

"UP the airy mountain," The Fairies by William Allingham
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw98.html

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re: Petrarca - I especially liked this part of his title: Night Brings Him No Rest. He is the Prey of Despair :)

lol... delightful poem by William Allingham: poor little Bridget.

"Victor in Drama, Victor in Romance," - Alfred Tennyson; To Victor Hugo... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-tennyson/to-victor-hugo

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I specially love that part of "To Victor Hugo...":
"I know not–England, France, all man to be
Will make one people ere man’s race be run:
And I, desiring that diviner day,
Yield thee full thanks for thy full courtesy
To younger England in the boy my son."

"When the heart is hard and parched up, "Beggarly Heart" by Rabindranath Tagore
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/beggarly-heart/

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re: To Victor Hugo - yes, quite moving.

re: Beggarly Heart - "When desire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, O thou holy one,
thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder"... incredible. Rabindranath Tagore won a Nobel Prize for Literature and so many more accomplishments.

Fudging just a little:
"The xylem saps are heading south" - Albert Ahearn; Deciduous Leaves... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/deciduous-leaves/

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Liked the colorful "Deciduos Leaves".

"Ye distant Hills, ye smiling glades,". Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Ever Getting To The Hills by John Kendall (Dum-Dum)
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-kendall/ode-on-a-distant-prospect-of-ever-getting-to-the-hills-21588

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lol poem :)

"ZZZ" - Daniel Corcoran; Asleep... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/asleep_211388

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lol!

"A name only once". America by Kofi Awoonor
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57144/america-56d23a58849e7

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Sad poem. After some research I believe the following poem: American Letter
by Archibald MacLeish is invoked...
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/american-letter

"Beyond yon dim old mountain's shadowy height," - Fannie Isabelle Sherrick; Beyond.... https://www.poetrycat.com/fannie-isabelle-sherrick/beyond

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Re: Wow! American Letter is an impressive poem. I like it much better than the later poem. Enjoyed meeting this poet:https://en.wikipedia.org/wikihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_MacLeish

Beyond A delicate poem. The poet is only just now overshadowed by Archibald MacLeish.

"Come with rain, O loud Southwester!" To The Thawing Windby Robert Frost
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw291.html

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re: Archibald MacLeish - Three Pulitzer Prizes to add to his list of other accomplishments.

re: Frost - "Turn the poet out of door."... lol

"Dimmed to infiltrate the forest of the night" - Ken e Hall; Natures Call Save The Forest Of The Night... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/natures-call-save-the-forest-of-the-night/

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re: So true! Enjoyed Natures Call Save The Forest Of The Night...

"Each small gleam was a voice," Each Small Gleam Was a Voice by Stephen Crane
https://www.poetry.com/poem/35675/each-small-gleam-was-a-voice

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Delightful poem :) Found this:

The entire poem is in movement, like water. It ripples. It reflects. It is prismatic. It flows. The second
stanza is like the ripples created by the "small glowing pebbles" being thrown on the water. The first line of
this second stanza is a throw. The reader can hear the pebbles hit. Plink, plink, plink, plink; this is the
tetrameter of line two in the second stanza. And the meaning follows in much the same way. "Good ballads of God" are an inner ripple of the larger concept "eternity with souls rest." Then, plink, "little priests," and plink,
"little holy fathers," both fall into the widening circle of "the truth of your hymning." Then perspective is shattered like water when a wind suddenly sweeps all ripples away, as the bells come, in "songs of carmine, violet, green, gold."... from "A CATEGORIZATION OF FORM FOR STEPHEN CRANE'S POETRY /
THESIS"... https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501068/m2/1/high_res_d/1002775317-Weber.pdf

"Flag waves," - Natalie; Freedom... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/freedom-cinquain

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Thanks for the link! Very interesting analysis of Each "Each Small Gleam Was a Voice". I didn´t notice that the title itself suggests a relationship between visual aspect and sound.

"Ghost dance of the white buffalo". Ghost dance of the white buffalo by Ronald Tirino
https://www.poetry.com/poem/128804/ghost-dance-of-the-white-buffalo

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Enjoyed very much. There's a Native American/Indigenous/Nations aesthetic here amongst the poets in the Gold Country that I have yet to fully appreciate. An acquaintance of mine, Stephen Meadows, fills that niche very nicely, whom I consider The Poet in Garden Valley: https://www.mtdemocrat.com/prospecting/california-poet-to-share-inspirational-words/ (I am but a poet in Garden Valley, one of many). He has been published with his latest book just recently released :)

Hoping this isn't a duplicate:

"Humanity i love you" - e.e.cummings; La Guerre II... https://cummings.ee/book/xli-poems/poem/la-guerre-ii/

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Ever tried to present a selection of poems for publication in Garden Valley (as there seems to be that possibility there)?

Liked the cummings poem, La Guerre II.... He makes one think.
"I saw this day sweet flowers grow thick --"The Happy Child by William Henry Davies
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/william_henry_davies/poems/3081

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Lol... There are about 12,326,000 more people in S.P. than G.V. as of 2020, so not too many prospects I know of locally. I have neither the background (demographic/education/contacts) nor works most publications might desire.

I've promised myself for years I'd try self publishing... either through Amazon eBooks or P.O.D. press. I even have a nearly finished product from my earlier poetry that I printed and loose-bound for my Daughter and each of my three Grand-children for Christmas presents a few years back that are gathering dust in closets (they're really not into reading poetry much). After reading a few poems that I thought my oldest Grandson would be amused with I gifted him with two framed glossy prints this year of two poems I wrote in the Nonsense Poetry thread having rock themes, the poems you may recall, that he enjoyed and actually hung in his house. And that's about it - not including my latest procrastinated gift for my artist Sister of an updated manuscript, yet to finish and send off.

Perhaps our Thursday at Two group may help. It is held in the library in Georgetown up here on the Divide; population about 3000, or 1500 less than G.V. which is a surprise - I'd bet there are more than enough backwoods hideaways in the hills to make up the difference and more though. Our poetry group has introduced me to published poetry authors. My aesthetics need a tremendous amount of work (my poetry is too tongue in cheek for most tastes), which is why I like our poetry group; though small it is eclectic in scope... and I get invited to poetry readings and open microphone/open forum opportunities (participated in three) on occasion, and I'm learning a lot... also, still trying to get out of my shell (blush).

Delightful poem :)

"John. I’m glad I walk’d. How fresh the meadows look" - Alfred Tennyson; Walking To The Mail... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-tennyson/walking-to-the-mail

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Well, it´s just because you belong to a much smaller community than I, that I think it can be easier to be known and publish text . I´m surprised, by the way, that Georgetown is smaller than Garden Valley. In Brasil you need good contacts to publish something and you have to be mediatic which today probably means that you must appear on TV or have your own influencer channel on You Tube or (you or your cat) millions of followers on Instagram).

I am not so familiar with poetry but I think yours has an own face. I think what you need are good contacts through your poetry group or your church. Or, I remember, Yes/ No found out about several Nano stories groups on line, and started sending his stories. I think there must be similar poetry groups on line, one must only be careful with those groups, who make a business out of it, offering to publish ones poems in collections, on cups, certificates, tombstones or whatever. You already have a collection which probably needs just some dusting up and updating. And getting out of the shell (Ai!)

"Walking To The Mail..." a very gossipy poem :). Poor Niobe of swine!!

"THE kind-hearted angler was sadly pursuing" 'MOST ANGLERS ARE VERY HUMANE'--Daily Paper by Norman Rowland Gale
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/gale01.html#3

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Yes, I've steered away from vanity book publishing sites and only got sucked into one poetry contest. I'll keep my eyes open :)

re: Georgetown... I'm thinking the 2020 census must be way off.
I always thought there were more people there than in my little community... they have all the grocery stores (2) unless you go all the way to Cool (which has about the same number of people that G.V. has), (1) of (2) banks on the Divide, the other in Cool, the only library, (3) elementary schools (we have (1) teeny-tiny elementary school, and the only High School and intermediate school that serves 7 or 8 communities (if you split the town of Cool and Auburn Lake Trails (a gated community)) of our spread out area, way more restaurants, at least (5) more churches (including mine), all the gifty type shops, the only laundymat,and so on. G.V. does have a 7/11 that was minimally converted from an ancient Mom&Pop store but none of our communities has a big box store (unless you count Dollar Tree in Cool), or name brand fast food chain type restaurants. No Po-lice stations up here at all... no bowling alleys :( no theatres :( , no book stores :( , no buses except school buses, no trains. I guess Cool has some amenities like Georgetown has come to think about it: some restaurants, (1) elementary school, the only water works company (which is actually in A.L.T. - Water Extortion-R-Us)... most of us, like we are, are on wells. (6) communities have Post Offices... Kelsey's P.O. got moved over the river to the South off the Divide.

re: ""THE kind-hearted angler..."- lol !

"Lush green grass moves with the wind" - Lillian Susan Thomas; *secrets Of Grass... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/secrets-of-grass/

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re: Georgetown. I imagine that the place where you live is very beautiful and peaceful (nor need for policemen!). The problem in case of an emergency is only that one is entirely dependent of an own car to live there as there is no public transport and most of the places one usually goes to including hospitals and churches are elsewhere. And probably no own major. By the way Cool must be cool.

*secrets Of Grass...Lovely poem! Reminds me of the time I lived in the hills.

"Music is multilingual" Music Poem by Phillip Nine Mafunga
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/music-382/

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We do have Sheriffs that are assigned... they just patrol in from off the area.

Music !

"Not of one dear hand only I complain," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet CLXVII. Non pur quell' una bella ignuda mano. / He Returns the Glove, Bewailing the Effect of Her Beauty.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/sonnet-clxvii

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Lol! we have three different kinds of police here and also a bicycle gang specialized in stealing cell phones.

Charming love sonnet by Petrarca.

"On the day the world ends" Song on the End of the World by Czeslaw Milosz
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/czeslaw_milosz/poems/15375

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An interesting take on the end of the world.

Another by Petrarca:

"Place me where herb and flower the sun has dried," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet CXIII. Pommi ove 'l sol occide i fiori e l' erba. / His Invincible Constancy... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/sonnet-cxiii

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:) You seem enchanted by Petrarca´s nobel poetry!

So, some more Petrarca:

Quanto più desiose l' ali spando./The more my own fond wishes would impel -Sonnet CVIII by Francesco Petrarca
https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/sonnet-cviii ( I liked that Poetry Cat offers more than one translation for some of the poems)

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Enjoyed :)

Yes, I have a number of Petrarca poems queued up for the future (except for his many dotings on Laura that is) :)

""Remember me" implored the Thief!" - Emily Dickinson; "Remember me" implored the Thief... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogspot.com/2016/01/remember-me-implored-thief-testament.html

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"Remember me" implored the Thief... A bit of a riddle for me. A quick search didn´t bring any analysis.

"Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast" Desert Places by Robert Frost
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/desert-places/

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re: Emily Dickinson... it's a Bible poem; there is an explanation below on the same page.

re: Frost... I guess he's not a fan of the snow either. It's eerie being in nature trapped in the snow.

"Trillets of humor, -- shrewdest whistle-wit, --" - Sidney Lanier; To Our Mocking-Bird... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-our-mocking-bird/

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re Emily Dickinson: I remember the story but was a bit confused by the juristic terms. I hadn't read the explanation

To Our Mocking-Bird... A very sad AAAAIIII! A loving poem.

"Unrisen splendour of the brightest sun" Unrisen splendour of the brightest sun...by Percy Bysshe Shelley
https://www.litscape.com/author/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley/Unrisen_Splendour_Of_The_Brightest_Sun.html

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Beautiful poem by PBS !

"Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells" - Alfred Joyce Kilmer; Poets... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-joyce-kilmer/poets

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"Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells" Almost an expressionistic take!

"What crowding thoughts around me wake," To Mrs K____, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris by Helen Maria Williams https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/helen-maria-williams

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Incredible poem considering the subject matter. I wonder if she was in jail at this time ? Enjoyed the entire poem but the last line sums it up very well: "A Christmas banquet for the heart!" English plum "cake"/"plum duff" was a treat my Mother excelled in :) Here's a recipe: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/plumpuddingplumduff_89799

"-"x+2 = 4"- " - Poet Destroyer A; Premium Member The Unknown... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/the_unknown_568013

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re::) thanks for the recipe!

Enjoyed this mathematical poem!

"Ye Alpine rocks! If less your peaks elate". The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - To The Swiss by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/michelangelo-di-lodovico-buonarroti-simoni/sonnets-of-tommaso-campanella-to-the-swiss-26221

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Michelangelo: A poet too ?!!! Even more impressed ! A true Renaissance man !

"ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ" - MartyZigzagHasmukh AmathalalZigz
Owens; Sleep Wonderful Sleep... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/sleep_wonderful_sleep_196192

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re Michelangelo: :)

"ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ". Now that is, what I call a legit "Z" poem! But sleeplessness itself if continuous is terrible.

"A little heat caught". Messiah (Christmas Portions) By Mark Doty
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44142/messiah-christmas-portions

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Wow... complex poem... brings to mind this quote by a General Authority in my church from a talk to BYU students, “Come unto Me”, by Jeffrey R. Holland that resonates with me:
For anyone out there seeking the courage to repent and change, I remind you that the Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well.

"Bambini picking daisies in the new spring grass" - Kathleen Raine Daisies of Florence... https://poetryarchive.org/poem/daisies-florence/

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"Daisies of Florence...". What a beautiful poem! Using it as Christmas poem on another site!

Overstepping the first line rules once more, because of the timely subject. The title begins with "C", but not the first line:

"I heard the bells on Christmas Day".Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/christmas-bells/

A Merry Christmas to all!

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A beautiful poem of tragic events in HWL's life ( https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/heard-the-bells-christmas-day-hope-surfaces-despair/#:~:text=I%20heard%20the%20bells%20on%20Christmas% 20Day%20was%20born%20out,tried%20to%20smother%20th e%20flames. ) ... and a version of it is one of my faith's songs in our hymn book #214 ( https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/music/library/hymns/i-heard-the-bells-on-christmas-day?lang=eng )... we sang it Wednesday night at our ward/church Christmas party :)

Here's another by HWL that breaks all the rules... "Three Kings came riding from far away,"... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57830/the-three-kings

and an odd 'D' "Christmas" poem: "Diluvian, draggled and derelict posse, this" - Mike Chasar; Conches on Christmas... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/43227/conches-on-christmas

Thanx !... and a Merry Christmas !!! from me to all as well,
praying for "Peace on Earth, Good will to men",

- tailor

[Danik 2016]

re: "Three Kings came riding from far away,"...Beautiful Christmas poem!

re: Conches on Christmas..Odd indeed. Destruction of the natural environment?

"Earth's manifold noises break" The Note Of Nature by Theodore Harding Rand
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/theodore-harding-rand/note-of-nature-29073