Alphabetical Poem First Lines

[Danik 2016]

re "Ode": :)

"Near Hastings, on the shingle-beach,", So beautiful!

"Over the camp-fires". "The Longbeards' Saga. A.D. 400" by Charles Kingsley
https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-kingsley/the-longbeards-saga--ad-400

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed :) "Where women are heroes, / What must the men be?"

"Perhaps he’s afraid my wooden shoes will damage the moss." - Ye Shaoweng; I Try To Enter a Garden but I Can’t Get in... https://bangalorereview.com/2019/04/classical-chinese-poems-from-song-dynasty/

[Danik 2016]

Charming poem:"It’s impossible to wall in the beauty of spring,/ An apricot branch draped in red blossoms has crept over the wall."

"Queen of a double empire still she stands," "Constantinople, March MCMXV" by Victoria Mary Sackville-West
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/victoria-mary-sackville-west/constantinople-march-mcmxv-37872

[tailor STATELY]

Wistful impassioned historical poem by the author Vita.

"Ring-Ting! I wish I were a Primrose," - William Allingham; Wishing... https://www.poetrycat.com/william-allingham/wishing

[Danik 2016]

"Wishing...".Charming poem!

"Softly drops the crimson sun:". "Angelus". by Susan Coolidge
https://www.poetrycat.com/susan-coolidge/angelus

[tailor STATELY]

Great poem...lol... just realized I was influenced by Angelus for my poem in the Lol... thread for today

"Tranquil and happy loves in this agree," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet CCXVII. La sera desiar, odiar l' aurora. / Contrary to the Wont of Lovers, He Prefers Morn to Eve.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/sonnet-ccxvii

[Danik 2016]

Noble verses. Like Petrarca I prefer Aurora.

"Unlovely city, to which few tourists come". "A City Remembered" by Vernon Scannell
https://www.poetrycat.com/vernon-scannell/a-city-remembered

[tailor STATELY]

A somber homage to a city beloved. A rather convoluted life for a poet... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Scannell

"Villagers all, this frosty tide," - Kenneth Grahame; Carol... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw355.html

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the poem, specially as sung by field mice. Willsometime look for the book.

"What a strange thing" "What a strange thing" by by Kobayashi Issa
https://www.poetrycat.com/kobayashi-issa/what-a-strange-thing

[tailor STATELY]

Beautiful Haiku :)

Poem by a poet whose name contains an 'x': Max Eastman - "Borne on the low lake wind there floats to me,"; Summer Sunday... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/73810/summer-sunday/

[Danik 2016]

"Poem by a poet whose name contains an 'x'" ;) A classic gem in Hello Poetry!

"Ye mountains, on whose torrent-furrowed slopes," "Palinodia" by Charles Kingsley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/charles-kingsley/palinodia-21737

[tailor STATELY]

Interesting poem and learned a new word (Palinodia) :) Enjoyed.

"Zzzzzzzzz can be the most comforting sound" - Desa Stone; Zaa Stupidest Poem Ever...
https://tdc.ds106.us/writings/zaa-stupidest-poem-ever/

[Danik 2016]

Another interesting Z poem!

"And the just man trailed God's shining agent," "Lot's Wife" by Anna Akhmatova
https://www.poetrycat.com/anna-akhmatova/lots-wife

[tailor STATELY]

Interesting poem about Lot's wife that seems to miss the mark.

"By the rude bridge that arched the flood," - Ralph Waldo Emerson; Concord Hymn... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw95.html

[Danik 2016]

re: I think Anna Akmathova reinterpreted the biblical episode according to her own reality:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Akhmatova


Impressive Hymn! It was also in one April that the Portuguese caravels landed here. That was the beginning of Brazil.

"Come let us watch the sun go down" "The Apple Orchard" by Rainer Maria Rilke
https://www.poetrycat.com/rainer-maria-rilke/the-apple-orchard

[tailor STATELY]

Sad but interesting bio. I have a Great-Uncle who escaped the USSR.

Enjoyed the poem, especially the last stanza: "Thus must it be, when willingly you strive
throughout a long and uncomplaining life,
committed to one goal: to give yourself!
And silently to grow and to bear fruit." :)

"Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing" - Mary T. Lathrap; A Woman's Answer to a Man's Question... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw254.html

[Danik 2016]

A Woman's Answer to a Man's Question..Innovative in the sense that this theme is usually approached by male poets. And she is a 19C poet. Somewhat obsessed with shirts and socks though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Torrans_Lathrap

"Earth has not anything to show more fair:" "Composed upon Westminster Bridge", Sept. 3, 1802
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw370.html

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed her bio :)

Wonderful poem by Wordsworth.

"For love of the roving foot" - William Bliss Carman; A Good-By... https://www.poetrycat.com/william-bliss-carman/a-good-by

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the quatrain!




Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread.

A poem by*H. P. Nichols
Give us this day our daily bread;
Oh! children, when you pray,
And morn and night repeat these words,
Think what it is you say.

You never asked a piece of bread,
And had that wish denied;
For food to eat, and some to spare,
Has always been supplied.

But o'er the ocean, many a cheek
With want grows thin and pale;
And many suffer like the boy
Of whom I tell this tale.

He lay upon some scattered straw,--
His strength was almost gone,--
And, in a feeble voice, he cried,
"Give me three grains of corn!"

Three grains from out his jacket torn,
His trembling mother drew,
'Twas all she had--she gave them him,
Though she was starving too!

Be very grateful, children, then,
For all that you enjoy;
Remembering, as you say those words,
The little Irish boy.
https://www.poetrycat.com/h-p-nichols/give-us-this-day-our-daily-bread

[tailor STATELY]

* :)

"How many tears cross my cheeks." - Li Yu; How Many Tears?... https://www.writtenchinese.com/five-examples-of-chinese-poetry-with-english-translations/

[Danik 2016]

AI! What does the symbol before the emoji mean?

"In the midway of this our mortal life," "The Divine Comedy by Dante: The Vision of Hell, Or The Inferno: Canto I by Dante Alighieri
https://www.poetrycat.com/dante-alighieri/the-divine-comedy-by-dante-the-vision-of-hell-or-the-inferno-canto-i

[tailor STATELY]

lol...
What does (*) stand for?
noun. a small starlike symbol (*), used in writing and printing as a reference mark or to indicate omission, doubtful matter, etc. Linguistics. the figure of a star (*) used to mark an utterance that would be considered ungrammatical or otherwise unacceptable by native speakers of a language, as in * I enjoy to ski. - Asterisk Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com... that being defined I borrowed your (*) as a reference mark to reference the poem/author - AND such that I believe H.P. may be a 5x5 cousin of mine, hence :)

The introduction of Virgil as Dante's guide. I didn't recall the "Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, OH MY !" moment in S3, S4, S5 (lol).

"Jenny, Jenny, dry thi ee," - John Hartley; Advice to Jenny.... http://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-hartley/advice-to-jenny-17944

[Danik 2016]

re:I see! Let´s hope he is your 5x5 cousin. I know that you have read "The Inferno" of The Divine Comedy, but I like the beginning so much, I thought I could use it.

lololol! What a good defense of male "roaming"! But what made me really glad was that I understood all the dialect.

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

[tailor STATELY]

Such a delightful poem by Shelley :) ... https://www.englishliterature.info/2022/06/to-jane-the-keen-stars-were-twinkling.html

"Like a Dog with a bottle, fast ti'd to his tail," - Thomas Flatman; The Batchelors Song... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw267.html

[Danik 2016]

Lol!

Poem of the Week
PotW.org
Founded August 1996<** PotW #15 **>This Week's Poem


Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

fromThe Masque of the Gypsies

The faiery beame upon you,
The starres to glister on you,
A Moone of light,
In the Noone of night,
Till the Fire-Drake hath o're-gone you.

The Wheele of Fortune guide you,
The Boy with the Bow beside you,
Runne aye in the way
Till the Bird of day,
And the luckyer lot betide you.

Jonson was the first Poet Laureate of England, serving from 1616 until 1637.

The above poem appeared in:*Q. Horatious Flaccus: His Art of Poetry*which was Englished by Ben Jonson, and printed by J.Okes in London in 1640 for John Benson. A copy of its text can be found in:

Jonson, Ben.*The Gypsies Metamorphosed. George Watson Cole, ed. New York: The Century Co., 1931.

[Danik 2016]

Ill change the poem above tomorrow, when on PC.

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed. Charming poem of a gypsy's blessing. Looking forward to your next poem :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

I only noticed after posting and editing, that the first line didn´t start with "m".

So here is the "m" poem:
"Men my brothers who after us live,"."The Ballad Of The Hanged Men" by François Villon

https://www.poetrycat.com/francois-villon/the-ballad-of-the-hanged-men

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Villon

https://alchetron.com/Eug%C3%A8ne-Ysa%C3%BFe

[tailor STATELY]

Had to google "þþ": 'thorn' evidently, though uncertain... https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=þþ&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

After that distraction was sidelined I found the poem both morbid and hopeful. Found a lengthier translation here... https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=þþ&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

A rogue first and a poet second - quite a couplet. This part of the wiki article made me smile: "The Archy and Mehitabel poems of Don Marquis include a poem by a cat who is Villon reincarnated." I believe that is how I was first introduced to Villon :) Poem is on Pg 222 of the .pdf or Pg 219 in the text: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1138&context=zeabook

This wiki citation I found interesting (along with the other Music facts): "Villon was an influence on American musician Bob Dylan."

Wonderful sonata :)

"Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods," - William Allingham; Autumnal Sonnet
... https://www.poetrycat.com/william-allingham/autumnal-sonnet

[tailor STATELY]

Editing difficult... found an illustration with "Villon" and archy and mehitabel... https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/illustrations/george-herriman-archy-and-mehitabel-illustration-original-art-doubleday-1927-/a/7211-94159.s

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Thank you for cat Villon, book and illustration. :):). Of course I'll read the whole book. The "o" poem comes tomorrow, when I am on PC.

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the sad tender Autumn poem!

"Old trees, old trees! in your mystic gloom". "Old Trees" by Abram Joseph Ryan
https://www.poetrycat.com/abram-joseph-ryan/old-trees

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed... Melancholy Civil War poem from a Catholic Priest serving Confederate.

"Peter Wilson, A.R.A.," - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; A Post-Impressionist... https://www.poetrycat.com/arthur-conan-doyle/a-post-impressionist

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed "A Post-Impressionist...":D. So that´s what Conan Doyle is up to when not writing detedtive stories!

"Quiet mind, easy thoughts" (running out of queen poems). Wisps of Wind by Merlie T.
https://hellopoetry.com/poem/4578584/wisps-of-wind/

[tailor STATELY]

Beautiful Haiku sentiment type poem :)

"Rather arid delight" - Emily Dickinson; Rather arid delight... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogspot.com/2017/03/rather-arid-delight-hangover.html

[Danik 2016]

Lol-Hangover musings of Dickinson

"She's stopped in her southern tracks". "On A Cape May Warbler Who Flew Against My Window" by Eamon Grennan
https://www.poetrycat.com/eamon-grennan/on-a-cape-may-warbler-who-flew-against-my-window

[tailor STATELY]

Heartwarming poem: "From the fall grass I gather her / And give her to my silent children / Who give her a decent burial / Under the dogwood in the garden."

"Ten years, dead and living dim and draw apart." - Su Shi; Song of River City... https://mandarinmatrix.org/famous-chinese-poems/

[Danik 2016]

Beautiful and sad poem. One translation doubt. Shouldn´t it have been "Ten years, dead and living dim and drawN apart?

"Under the linden branches" by John Frederick Freeman

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-frederick-freeman/under-the-linden-branches-16021

[tailor STATELY]

Oh... we're back :)

re: "Shouldn´t it have been "Ten years, dead and living dim and drawN apart?": prolly so.

Very serene poem :)

"Vulgar of manner, overfed,...' - Byron Rufus Newton; Owed to New York...
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw215.html

[Danik 2016]

Sorry! The delay was due to the mistaken supposition that it was your turn.
I'll posr the new poem tomorrow, when on PC.

[tailor STATELY]

De nada... my remark was due to the webpage being rendered oddly just before; I logged off then on and it normalized :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

I've had to change the web browser several times to be able to access the normal Litnet page. Just now using "Sea Monkey", an old and more simple browser and it has worked up to now.

"Owed to New York..." Interesting poem about a big city

"When the voices of children are heard on the green," "Nurse's Song" by William Blake
https://www.poetrycat.com/william-blake/nurses-song-when-the-voices-of-children-are-heard-on-the-green

[tailor STATELY]

Been using Opera all this time... rarely a hiccup (crossing fingers) :)

Delightful poem by Blake :)

"X..." - Otteri Selvakumar; X... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=474205

[Danik 2016]

LoL! Kudoz for finding one more "X" poem (after "z" I guess it is the most difficult letter for starting a first line.)

"Ye flags of Piccadilly," "Ye flags of Piccadilly" by Arthur Hugh Clough
http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=348529

[tailor STATELY]

A longing nostalgic poem of a place once hated by the poet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hugh_Clough
I'm trying to understand the last line "You were underneath me now!" in context with the time period of his short life (1 January 1819 Liverpool; Died 13 November 1861 Florence, Italy)

Hoping this isn't a repeat:

"Zombies here, zombies there" - tmobaird; Zombies are here...
https://tdc.ds106.us/writings/zombies-are-here/

[Danik 2016]

I didn´t understand it either.Not very enlightening.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccadilly_Circus

Lol, zombies.

"After the wolves and before the elms". "My Country in Darkness" by Eavan Boland
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/eavan_boland/poems/1196

[tailor STATELY]

"After the wolves... " - A hard scrabbled Irish poet's life.

"Bearden’s card players" - William J. Harris; The Black Card Players: A Collage... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/159465/the-black-card-players-a-collage

[Danik 2016]

Interesting collage poem.

"Came of old to houses lonely" "Angels" by George MacDonald

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/george-macdonald/angels-25195

[tailor STATELY]

Delightful short poem :)

"Down the dimpled green-sward dancing" - George Darley; from Harvest-Home... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw204.html

[Danik 2016]

"Down the dimpled green-sward dancing" One can almost visualize the group of children!

"Eternal power of earth and air,"A Hymn" by Anne Bronte
https://www.poetrycat.com/anne-bronte/a-hymn

[tailor STATELY]

A seeking for a greater faith... the "if" words sting, but still a yearning :)

"From the wrinkle between my brows" - Vasko Popa; Far Within Us #6... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22606

[Danik 2016]

re: Abit more about Anne Brönte:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bront%C3%AB

Far Within Us #6- A very original poem!

"Give me the treble of thy horns and hoofs,"Sonnet VI" by Alan Seeger
https://www.poetrycat.com/alan-seeger/sonnet-vi-give-me-the-treble-of-thy-horns-and-hoofs

[tailor STATELY]

Anne: Tragic early death.

Sonnet VI... enjoyed :) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/alan-seeger

"Hear! hear! hear!" - William Bliss Carman; The Mocking-Bird....
https://www.poetrycat.com/william-bliss-carman/the-mocking-bird

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed The Mocking-Bird.

"It is moonlight. Alone in the silence" "Evening Song Of Senlin" by Conrad Potter Aiken
https://www.poetrycat.com/conrad-potter-aiken/evening-song-of-senlin

[tailor STATELY]

Delicate poem... enjoyed :)

"Just think! some night the stars will gleam" - Robert W. Service; Just Think!... https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/service3.html#just

[Danik 2016]

Beautiful nostalgic poem!

"KEEN, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and there". "Keen, Fitful Gusts are Whisp'ring Here and There"
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/keats04.html#18

[tailor STATELY]

A journey in space and time by Keats revisiting Milton & Petrarca (and Laura)... enjoyed :)

"Liberal Nature did dispence" - Abraham Cowley; Beauty... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw154.html

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed Cowley's original poem very much!

"My mind was once the true survey" "The Mower's Song" by Andrew Marvell
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/marvel05.html#14

[tailor STATELY]

One lost in love perhaps :)

"Noons of poppy, noons of poppy," - William Bliss Carman; Noons Of Poppy...
... https://www.poetrycat.com/william-bliss-carman/noons-of-poppy

[Danik 2016]

re:Maybe. I loved this unusual comparison between moving and loving

"Noons Of Poppy", beautiful!

"O, silvery moon, fair mistress of the night,"Metabole. - An Apostrophe To The Moon" by Alfred Castner King (a bit long but I liked it)
https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-castner-king/metabole---an-apostrophe-to-the-moon

[tailor STATELY]

Wow... incredible poem.

"Pray why are you so bare, so bare," - Paul Laurence Dunbar; The Haunted Oak... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw357.html

[Danik 2016]

"The Haunted Oak..." Enjoyed this ancient sounding ballad!

"Quick through the gates of Fairyland" "Early Spring" by Fay Inchfawn
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/fay-inchfawn/early-spring-21143

[tailor STATELY]

Delightful færie tale ! :)

"Remorse-is Memory-awake-" - Emily Dickinson; Remorse is Memory-awake... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogspot.com/2016/01/remorse-is-memoryawake-confession.html

[Danik 2016]

"Remorse is cureless", how true. More interesting than the poem itself I found the short description of the confession of the poor, in group and with the payment of a fee.

"The stone-built villages of England.""Stone Villages" by Joseph Brodsky

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/joseph_brodsky/poems/4070

[tailor STATELY]

Melancholy poem of desertion and time.

"The little box which contains the world" - Vasko Popa; Last News About The Little Box... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22628

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed very much! The poem reminded me of the Russian Matryoshkas you probably know:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll

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

[tailor STATELY]

Yes :)

"voices to voices,lip to lip" - e.e. cummings; ONE XXXIX... https://cummings.ee/book/is-5/poem/one-xxxix/

[Danik 2016]

Loved this enigmatic cummings poem!

"WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer;" "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw101.html

[tailor STATELY]

The wonder of the universe is in experiencing it :)

Poem by a poet whose name contains an 'x':
"All My Life, I Have Loved It" - Xiu Ouyang; All My Life, I Have Loved It... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/all-my-life-i-have-loved-it/

[Danik 2016]

A wise poem: "Riches and honours are floating clouds," :)

"You little box, held to me escaping" Radio Poem by Bertolt Brecht
https://www.poetrycat.com/bertolt-brecht/radio-poem

[tailor STATELY]

Interesting poem by Brecht, found this... https://yiddishkayt.org/juxtapoetry-brecht-mikhail/

"Zzzzzz, hisssss, ssss….." - Melinda Albrycht; Ziggy, the Snake...
https://tdc.ds106.us/writings/ziggy-the-snake-posted-on-my-blog-but-it-didnt-carry-over-to-daily-create/

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the link, the juxtaposition and the beautiful poem by Dunya Mikhail,tailor.

Enjoyed "Ziggy, the Snake" and your untiring efforts to find "z" poems. :)

At six of clock we were waiting for breakfast" "A Miracle for Breakfast" by Elisabeth Bishop
https://www.poetrycat.com/elizabeth-bishop/a-miracle-for-breakfast

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed. Complex poem... found this to help with my understanding... https://beamingnotes.com/2017/08/02/summary-analysis-miracle-breakfast-elizabeth-bishop/

"By the sad fellowship of human suffering," - Nora Pembroke; Comfort Ye, Comfort Ye My People
... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/comfort-ye-comfort-ye-my-people

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the link, tailor. It was very helpful for me too. Seemed to be a Brazilian scene but I got a bit confused with the different locations and perspectives in the poem.

Nora Pembroke, a beautiful and sad poem!

"CUpid as he lay among""The wounded Cupid"Anacreontea (Anonymous c.100 BC-600 AD)
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw141.html

[tailor STATELY]

To Cupid: "Come, tel me then, how great's the smart / Of those, thou woundest with thy Dart!"... enjoyed.

"Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong." - Vachel Lindsay; A Dirge For A Righteous Kitten... https://allpoetry.com/A-Dirge-For-A-Righteous-Kitten

[Danik 2016]

Poor kitten! I suspect his image was used for pedagogical purposes.

[Danik 2016]

"An Earthworm once loved a Star. In the hush of the summer night," "The Earthworm And The Star" by Charles Hamilton Musgrove
https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-hamilton-musgrove/the-earthworm-and-the-star

[tailor STATELY]

Such a sad poem :(

"Fond are my feelings, yet unfeeling I feign," - Du Mu; On Parting”... https://mandarinmatrix.org/famous-chinese-poems/

[Danik 2016]

Du Mu;On Parting”.Sad poem but beautiful images!

"God has pity on kindergarten children,". "God Has Pity On Kindergarten Children" by Yehuda Amichai
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/yehuda_amichai/poems/53

[tailor STATELY]

Sad but hopeful poem... enjoyed.

"Heart of mine, by thy quick beating," - Nora Pembroke; Isabel.
... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/isabel

[Danik 2016]

Isabel. Beautiful poem. It reminded me of Princesa Isabel, the daughter of emperor D. Pedro II, who governed the country, when her father was absent.

"Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye,". Sonnets IX "Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye" by William Shakespeare
https://www.poetrycat.com/william-shakespeare/the-sonnets-ix---is-it-for-fear-to-wet-a-widows-eye

[tailor STATELY]

Great history :) Found a possible Isabel for the poem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_de_Clare,_4th_Countess_of_Pembroke

Shakespeare: My knowledge of his poetry is woefully lacking... and I have some fine books of his poetry, et al that I've never cracked! (shameful). So, I googled of course and found this: https://poemanalysis.com/william-shakespeare/sonnet-9/ My impression was nowhere near what the analysis stated (sigh).

"Just think! some night the stars will gleam" - Robert W. Service; Just Think!... https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/service3.html#just

[Danik 2016]

re Isabel:Great link. Never thought of Nora Penbroke as a noblewoman (and Isabel too, of course)
re Sonnet IX by WS: Also a very helpful link.I´m also not familiar with his poetry

"Keep me, I pray, in wisdom's way" "The Bibliomaniac's Prayer" by Eugene Field
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/eugene-field/bibliomaniacs-prayer-15544

[tailor STATELY]

Lol... enjoyed :)

"Let me grow lovely, growing old—" - Karle Wilson Baker; Let Me Grow Lovely... https://allpoetry.com/Let-Me-Grow-Lovely

[Danik 2016]

"Let me grow lovely, growing old—" -What a lovely poem!

"Many thousand glittering motes" "A Swarm Of Gnats" by Hermann Hesse
https://www.poetrycat.com/hermann-hesse/a-swarm-of-gnats

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed :) Found an analysis: https://eliteskills.com/c/14731

"Now as the train bears west," - Theodore Roethke; Night Journey... https://www.poetrycat.com/theodore-roethke/night-journey

[Danik 2016]

Re: Thanks tailor, I like specially the second analysis.

Night Journey.A fascinating journey with the poem rattling and jolting to the rhythm of the train.

"Outcasts.' "Embankment At Night, Before The War" by David Herbert Lawrence
https://www.poetrycat.com/david-herbert-lawrence/embankment-at-night-before-the-war-outcasts

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Incredible use of language ! Enjoyed :)

"Pluck not the wayside flower," - William Allingham; Wayside Flowers... https://www.poetrycat.com/william-allingham/wayside-flowers

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed "Wayside Flowers" ecological on the top of poetical.

"Queen Venus on a day of cloud"."Queen Venus" by Laurence Binyon
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/queen-venus-0

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Excellent poem - a rather pensive Venus at the edge of the sea... stirs my soul :)

"Remembrance has a Rear and Front-" - Emily Dickinson; Remembrance has a Rear and Front... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogspot.com/2016/01/remembrance-has-rear-and-front.html

[Danik 2016]

The monument must be impressive!

"Soft stealing through the shade, and skirting swift" "Lilith. The Legend Of The First Woman". Book II, by Ada Langworthy Collier
(somewhat long, because part of a longer verse legend).
https://www.poetrycat.com/ada-langworthy-collier

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Mystical poem... long, yes, but it weaves an intricate story well. Enjoyed :)
Found a wikipedia article to help... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith,_The_Legend_of_the_First_Woman

"to write simplicity" - Terence George Craddock; Oceans Of Thought... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/oceans-of-thought/

[Danik 2016]

re: Thanks for the wiki link. Yes, I think Lilith was the first feminist( not much in that line to be expected of Eve) and that about murdering babies was just intrigue.

"unique spectrum of" by Mark Wanless
https://hellopoetry.com/tag/unique/

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lol... brief and ambiguous: "no not really". Enjoyed :)

"Venus shines bright in the night sky." - Bryan Kelly; Birds Of A Mourning Star... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/birds-of-a-mourning-star/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed!

"When on a summer's morn I wake,"When on a Summer's Morn" by William Henry Davies
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/william_henry_davies/poems/3096

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Enjoyed very much :)

Poem by a poet whose name contains an 'x':

"Poetry, I tell my students," - Elizabeth Alexander... Ars Poetica #100: I Believe... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53005/ars-poetica-100-i-believe

[Danik 2016]

I loved this Ars Poetica!

"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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Melancholy poem... enjoyed :)

"Zabuton is where I" - Justin Hempe; Zaney Dog...
https://tdc.ds106.us/writings/zaney-dog/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed this "Z poem".
"Zabuton is where I
Sit as I wait for you to come and play"!

"And sometimes I am sorry when the grass". "Peace" by Patrick Kavanagh
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/patrick_kavanagh/poems/14367

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"what fools climb / To fight with tyrants Love and Life and Time?" Wonderful poem of peace in a hard scrabble country :)

"Black cats, grey cats, green cats miau—" - Vachel Lindsay; The Conscientious Deacon Poem
... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-conscientious-deacon/

[Danik 2016]

Lol!Celebrating the pedagogic role cats have in this poem

"Can't is the worst word that's written or spoken;"." Can´t" by Edgar Albert Guest
https://internetpoem.com/edgar-albert-guest/can-t-poem/

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Thoughtful treatise on "can't" :)

"Did they send me away from my cat and my wife" - Randall Jarrell Gunner... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/gunner/

[Danik 2016]

Gunner... Impressive war poem. I noticed the switch of cat and wife.

"Every old man I see". "Memory Of My Father" by Patrick Kavanagh
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/patrick_kavanagh/poems/14363

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Nostalgic poem... enjoyed :)

"Fresh Prince / Freddie Gibbs / John Singleton flicks /" - Marcus Wicker; How did you learn to speak English?... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/159042/how-did-you-learn-to-speak-english

[Danik 2016]

Lol!
50 ties...I am/You are /He is.../i am/You are
/he is... Coca Cola/ The book is on the table!

60ties Jim/Long John Silver/Stevenson x 6
Dickens/Dickens/Dickens/books/books/books
movies, movies, movies/music

2016 and on: poe, oeptry, trypoe, poetry

"Give me the treble of thy horns and hoofs,"Sonnet VI" by Alan Seeger
https://www.poetrycat.com/alan-seeger/sonnet-vi-give-me-the-treble-of-thy-horns-and-hoofs

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re: Lol! - Lol :)

A wonderful poem :) The poet... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Seeger

"He coveted her portrait." - Vachel Lindsay; The Moon Is A Painter... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-moon-is-a-painter/

[Danik 2016]

re:thanks for the link on Allan Seeger

Wonderful poem on aging love (but must silence the screaming propaganda before and after)

"I've known rivers:"."The Negro Speaks Of Rivers" by Langston Hughes
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/langston_hughes/poems/16953

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Soulful poem by Hughes :)

"Just as the ocean cradles our earth's orb," - Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev; Just As The Ocean Cradles Our Earth's Orb... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/just-as-the-ocean-cradles-our-earth-s-orb/

[Danik 2016]

"Just as the ocean cradles our earth's orb," Intensive poem!

"Kept up by relays of generations young". "Jack Roy" by Herman Melville
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/herman-melville

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Enjoyed :)
The poems, “John Marr,” “Bridegroom Dick,” “Tom Deadlight,” and “Jack Roy,” in different ways eulogize sailors and together form a group, a “chorus,” of voices from the past...
The sailors are associated with the rhythms of poetry, the music of their “chorus,” as well as the beating heart of friendship and fellowship. The succeeding sailor poems, “Bridegroom Dick,” “Tom Deadlight,” and “Jack Roy,” sound similar notes in mourning the bluff, often untutored, and dashing heroism of the men: “Heroic in thy levity wert thou, Jack Roy” - Herman Melville: An Introduction - Wyn Kelley... https://vdoc.pub/documents/herman-melville-an-introduction-blackwell-introductions-to-literature-5c73lph4b790

"light blinds the animals. they" - Etel Adnan; Return From London... https://griffinpoetryprize.com/poet/etel-adnan/

[Danik 2016]

Loved the citation on Melville's poems.
Interesting and enigmatic poem "Return from London".Thanks for the analysis.
Light and waves as disrupting elements the night as element of peace.

[Danik 2016]

"Maiden with the gypsy look" by Juliana Horatia Ewing

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/juliana-horatia-ewing/maiden-with-the-gipsy-look-15498

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Enjoyed. Almost an incantation unto itself.

"Nothing would sleep in that cellar, dank as a ditch," - Theodore Roethke; Root Cellar... https://www.poetrycat.com/theodore-roethke/root-cellar

[Danik 2016]

Root Cellar...Wonderful poem on an unusual subject!

"Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies,"To The Small Celandine by William Wordsworth
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-wordsworth/to-the-small-celandine-4148

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Lovely poem. We had glad little buttercups in our backyard lawn when I was growing up in Seattle :)

"Queen and King, they rule side by side" - Stephanie Bolster; Portrait of Alice with Elvis... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/portrait-alice-elvis

[Danik 2016]

Loved this modern
poem putting these two myths side by side!!

" 'Rejoice,' said the Sun; 'I will make thee gay'"."Rejoice" by George MacDonald
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/george-macdonald

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Deep poem on faith :)

"Stars, I have seen them fall," - A.E. Housman; Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall... https://interestingliterature.com/2018/12/stars-i-have-seen-them-fall-a-poem-by-a-e-housman/

[Danik 2016]

"Stars, I have seen them fall," - A.E. Housman. Beautiful, condensed poem!

"The mighty mountain flings its mist-veil down;" "Alushta By Day" by Adam Bernard Mickiewicz
https://www.poetrycat.com/adam-bernard-mickiewicz/alushta-by-day

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Beautiful poem: "A band of butterflies in rainbow flight;" :)

"Under a rising moon, it’s hard to swivel and break" - Tyler Mitchell; Glass Sight... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/158402/glass-sight

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed!
"If poets travel
from one image to the next, what comes of the ribbons
of roads breathing between letters?"


"Varry monny years ago, when this world wor rather young,""Happy Sam's Song" by John Hartley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-hartley/happy-sams-song-17967

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Delightful vernacular poem :)

"Whate'er most wild and new" - Francesco Petrarca; Canzone XVIII. Qual più diversa e nova. / He Compares Himself to All That Is Most Strange in Creation... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/canzone-xx

[Danik 2016]

Petrarcas majestic verse!

Poem by a poet, whose name begins with "X".

"Very quietly I take my leave", "Saying Good-Bye To Cambridge Again" Poem by Xu Zhimo
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/saying-good-bye-to-cambridge-again/

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Beautiful poem: "The golden willows by the riverside, / Are young brides in the setting sun; / Their reflections on the shimmering waves, / Always linger in the depth of my heart." :)

"You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus:" - Kahlil Gibran; Madman (Prologue)... https://poets.org/poem/how-i-became-madman-prologue

[Danik 2016]

Madman (Prologue)...- Impressive Prologue. Kalil Gibran was at a time cult here in Brazil but I never read him.


"Zack Bumstead useter flosserfize"."A Philosopher" by Sam Walter Foss
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/sam-walter-foss/philosopher-39169

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lololol ! :)

"Air-raid sirens across the country" - Victoria Amelina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Amelina ; Sirens... http://www.verseville.org/poems-by-victoria-amelina.html

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for choosing a poem by Victoria Amelina, the brave H journalist, writer and poet that was killed in a raid, just some days ago. I'm going to post your poem on her obituary in another forum. Didn't mention her here, for I wasn't sure if anyone knew about her. I myself read her name for the first time some days ago, but here she is!
What a beginning!"B" poem follows tomorrow when I am on PC.

In a similar mood:

"Beyond Siberia again Siberia,". "Beyond Siberia Again Siberia" by Regina Derieva
https://www.poetrycat.com/regina-derieva/beyond-siberia-again-siberia

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A depiction of the bleakness of exile: "Beyond the wall another wall, / on the wall stopped dead one sentinel." :)

"Caught in the center of a soundless field" - Philip Larkin Myxomatosis... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/philip_larkin/poems/14596

[Danik 2016]

Myxomatosis...I had to get help to understand this poem, I didn´t know about this disease: https://poemanalysis.com/philip-larkin/myxomatosis/. Sad poem!

"DUST of the feet"."Clark Street Bridge" by Carl Sandburg
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/sandb02.html#sand4

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Thanks for your research... I didn't know either; a very distressing poem in such a short form. I had looked up the disease to find out about the wasting of the poor bunnies, but had no idea that it was introduced by man to a 99% mortality rate :(

Enjoyed the somber poem :) Analysis: https://literarydevices.net/clark-street-bridge/

"Every few months or so, I turn into a rock. First, my joints stiffen as if" - Ryan Teitman; Paperweight... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/159442/paperweight

[Danik 2016]

Paperweight... Wonderful poem set in form of prose. One gets this "rock feeling".

re: Thanks for the analysis to "Clark Street Bridge", Ihad no idea where these bridge was. I' m breaking again the rules and reverting to "b", because I finally found a suitable translation of one of my favorite poems by beloved Lorca, which is somehow related to the tematic of "Clark Street Bridge". It´s a long poem and I think readers need some time to elaborate all its images, so the "G" poem, that is due, follows tomorrow(or, if you prefer, you get on with "G", I`ll do the next).

"Beneath the multiplications,".Federico García Lorca: New York (Office and Denunciation) from A Poet in New York
https://voxpopulisphere.com/2021/07/10/61373/

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Rich poetic images of blood everywhere... he must have caught New York on a bad day, oh wait, he did.
"I denounce the conspiracy of these deserted offices
that erase the architecture of the forest in agony,"

Go with "G":

"Green mountains all around, and so many buildings." - Lin Sheng; Writing on the Wall of an Inn in Lin’an... https://bangalorereview.com/2019/04/classical-chinese-poems-from-song-dynasty/

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re Lorca: "Rich poetic images of blood everywhere." Interesting comment, I never thought of that poem in that way. At that time I believe the blood images were still only related to the exploitation of natural life by the implacable economics of the big city. Later he would become one more victim of the Spanish Civil War:
"In June 1929, García Lorca travelled to the US with Fernando de los Rios on the RMS Olympic, a sister liner to the RMS Titanic.[22] They stayed mostly in New York City, where Rios started a lecture tour and García Lorca enrolled at Columbia University School of General Studies, funded by his parents. He studied English but, as before, was absorbed more by writing than by study. At Columbia, he lived in room 617 in Furnald Hall before moving to room 1231 in John Jay Hall.[23][24] He also spent time in Vermont and later in Havana, Cuba.

His collection Poeta en Nueva York (Poet in New York, published posthumously in 1940) explores alienation and isolation through some graphically experimental poetic techniques and was influenced by the Wall Street crash which he personally witnessed.[25] [26] [27]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Garc%C3%ADa_Lorca

"Writing on the Wall of an Inn in Lin’an..." Enjoyed!

"HONEY, child, honey, child, whither are you going?"."Village Song" by Sarojini Naidu
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/sarojini_naidu/poems/4589

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Interesting conversation poem: "The voices of the fairy folk are calling me: O listen!" :)

"I gave this world a song." - Carolyn Marie Rodgers; Affirmation: A Monologue Poem... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/158585/affirmation-a-monologue-poem

[Danik 2016]

Affirmation: A Monologue Poem... Fantastic poem! A really collective hymn of affirmation!


"Jane Austen Beecher Stowe de Rouse"."The Mare's Nest" by Rudyard Kipling
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/rudyard-kipling/mares-nest-3332

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An interesting poem... "A ‘Mare’s Nest’ is an old fashioned and particularly English phrase for a ridiculous situation or imbrogilo (sic).": https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/readers-guide/rg_maresnest1.htm

"Katie Casey was baseball mad," - Jack Norworth; Take Me Out to the Ball Game... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw436.html

[Danik 2016]

re "A ‘Mare’s Nest’:Thank you tailor, that was a very useful link, I didn´t know this meaning of "A Mare´s nest".

"Katie Casey was baseball mad," Jolly Poem!

"Last night I lay in an open field". "Starlight by SirJohn Collings Squire
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-collings-squire/starlight-37937

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"the pride of man" indeed... I say toss S3.

"My soul has had a long, hard day" - D.H. Lawrence; Fatigue... https://schabrieres.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/d-h-lawrence-fatigue/

[Danik 2016]

"toss S3" ?
"Fatigue..." (AI!) Rather sad and tired poem!

"No, Bill, I'm not a-spooning out no patriotic tosh". "A Song of the Sandbags" by Robert William Service
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?28819-Alphabetical-Poem-First-Lines&p=1399192#post1399192

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Found your poem here: https://www.poeticous.com/robert-w-service/a-song-of-the-sandbags

Interesting war poem with a positive ending thought :)

"Once I loved a fairy," - Vachel Lindsay; Queen Mab In The Village... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/queen-mab-in-the-village/

[Danik 2016]

:) Charming poem about the development of love in ( a man´s) life.

"Pangur Bán and I at work,"." Pangur Bán by Anonymous (Translated by Seamus Heaney)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/48267/pangur-ban

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Delightful poem :) "So it goes. To each his own."

"Queen Bess was Harry's daughter. Stand forward partners all!" - Rudyard Kipling; The Looking-Glass... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/rudyard-kipling/looking-glass-a-country-dance-5594

[Danik 2016]

The Looking-Glass... Enjoyed this folkloric take on history:).

"Rain and rain! And rain and rain!". "We To Sigh Instead of Sing" by James Whitcomb Riley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/james-whitcomb-riley/we-to-sigh-instead-of-sing-29186

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Ah, how we grouse about the rain till there is none... a happy ending though :)

"Sometimes I dip my pen and find the bottle full of fire," - Vachel Lindsay; An Apology For The Bottle Volcanic... https://allpoetry.com/An-Apology-For-The-Bottle-Volcanic

[Danik 2016]

"My bottle spreads a rainbow-mist, and from the vapor fine/Ten thousand troops from fairyland come riding in a line." :)

"The moment when, after many years". "The Moment" by Margaret Atwood
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/margaret_atwood/poems/348

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Your link wouldn't load for me for some reason... found your poem here... https://poetryarchive.org/poem/moment/

Very poignant poem of what's what :)

"Until recently the universe was expanding" - Krystyna Dabrowska; Cosmos... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/158392/cosmos

[Danik 2016]

Sorry! Some mistake with the link it isn't working for me, either.
Still learning to move about on Duck Duck.
Opportune poem at a moment when tension between Russia and Poland is increasing.
Next poem tomorrow when on PC.

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Go figure... your link is working at this time :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

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With me too!?
Going on with "V":

"Very like to a dream,"."The Morning Drive" by Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow
FOR MY DAUGHTER MARGARET.

Very like to a dream,
Doth the time to me seem,
When with thee a young girl by my side,
One of summer's fine days,
In a one pony chaise,
We commenced in the morning our ride.

By the pine grove and nook,
Over bridge and through brook,
Quite at random we drove without fear;
While the birds of the grove,
In sweet harmony strove,
By their concert of music to cheer.
With none to molest us,
No home cares to press us,
Farther onward, and onward we roam;
But at length the skies lower,
And unhoped for the shower
Finds us many miles distant from home.

Even so is life's day,
Like a fair morn in May,
With hope's bright bow of promise it cheers;
But long before night,
The sun that so bright
In the morning had shone, disappears.

Do not then I entreat,
My beloved Margaret,
Be content with this world for thy portion;
Let ambition soar higher,
E'en above earth aspire,
And to God give thy heart's true devotion.

April 29, 1853.
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/mary-ann-h-t-bigelow
(Poem didn´t load either. I believe machinations of Google are retarding the load because of ads or something)

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Enjoyed ! :) Interesting rhyme scheme: aab ccd eef...

"Winter speaks" - Sabina Laura; Winter Lullabies
... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/winter-lullabies

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed that Lullaby

Poem by an author with name with "X"

LEAVE YOURSELF STRAIGHT by Halima XUDOYBERDIEVA (translation Azam Abidov)

I am not able to know. Is this world wisdom or gold,
I wished revealing all the magic, every time but was surprised,
They see my palace in detail, and a special room I hold,
No friend I find to see my heart, and for care to arise.

A thought has settled in my soul, like a bodkin and a shot,
I ask you: never fall, because:a fallen man has no support.

Jackdaws move away from you, even gardens step aside,
Thank you for your cultivation, do you like them take offense?
The mounts that you lifted up are able calmly leave behind,
Come near, but be not distressed if a stone won’t confess.

Having tired, if you wish to lean, no garden, almond – spoilt,
I ask you: never fall, because a fallen man has no support!

If you have not only taking but a good aid-giving friend,
Stand up straight yourself that every pillar in the world will fall.
Even if you have a friend that’s going up to grave – till end,
Go yourself to death and never on the way depart at all.

Live in pride!
And having mourning, act: you lucky man, in short,
I ask you: never fall, because a fallen man has no support!
https://www.ziyouz.uz/en/poetry/44-modern-uzbek-poetry/110-halima-xudoyberdiyeva
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halima_Xudoyberdiyeva

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Enjoyed :) Must have been a difficult poem to translate. "If my verses like a flower become faded
Look for me then in the sorrow of the autumn." Fascinating life.

"Your absence has gone through me" - W. S. Merwin; Separation... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/28891/separation-56d21285b2140

[Danik 2016]

Separation... Short and to the point!Enjoyed!

"a zephyr moves the night"."Zephyr" by Jerry P. Bolton
https://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?id=349305&AuthorID=158730

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Lovely poem :)

"At one the wind rose," - Philip Larkin; Night-Music... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/philip_larkin/poems/14590

[Danik 2016]

"Night-Music.".Wonderful poem, unusual images!

"Back in the Vanished Country"."The Vanished Country" by Grantland Rice (1880-1954)
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw374.html

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Incredible somber poem... sport's writer at that ! :)

"Come unto me! Ah, gentlest word" - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; Come Unto Me... https://www.poetrycat.com/nancy-rebecca-campbell-glass/come-unto-me

[Danik 2016]

Seems an answer to "The Vanished Country" .:)

"Does that lamp still burn in my Father's house"."A Prodigal Son" by Christina Georgina Rossetti
https://www.poetrycat.com/christina-georgina-rossetti/a-prodigal-son

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A hopeful prodigal son... enjoyed :)

"Echo of the clocktower, footstep" - Dana Gioia; Prayer... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90617/prayer-57cf1666d2db3

[Danik 2016]

"and the harsh falcon its flightless young."(Aaii!) Enjoyed this original prayer.

"THE Lord God planted a garden"."God's Garden" by Dorothy Frances Gurney
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/gurney01.html#1

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"One is nearer God's heart in a garden / Than anywhere else on earth." :)

"God's own best will bide the test," - Arthur Conan Doyle; Religio Medici...
https://www.poetrycat.com/arthur-conan-doyle/religio-medici

[Danik 2016]

in #908 I skipped "F" by mistake. Now we have two "G" poems. To avoid confusing the sequence again I go on with "H".

Arthur Conan Doyle; Religio Medici. Conan Doyle writing a religious poem is amazing in itself!

"Hebrew writing and Arabic writing go from east to west,"."Temporary Poem Of My Time" by Yehuda Amichai
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/yehuda_amichai/poems/64

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Enjoyed... "Languages are like cats" :) The quarry: https://www.israelandyou.com/migdal-tzedek/

"In a barren springtime field" - Victoria Amelina; Poem About a Crow... https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2023/07/09/poem-about-a-crow-victoria-amelina-1986-2023/

[Danik 2016]

Precious link, thanks, tailor! Also thanks about the impressive poem by Victoria Amelina. Going to add it to her obituary.

"Just a little hope is needed". "Just a Little Hope Is Needed" by Gagan Gill (translated by Lucy Rosenstein)
https://www.poetrytranslation.org/poems/just-a-little-hope-is-needed

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Odd simple little poem: "like a fish leaping / on wet sand".

"—kept losing self control" - Brenda Hillman; Angrily Standing Outside in the Wind... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/angrily-standing-outside-in-the-wind/

[Danik 2016]

re "Just A Little Hope Is Needed": It´s from an translation site.

"Angrily Standing Outside in the Wind..." Interesting provoking poem- Found this on the poetry of the author:"Brenda Hillman begins her new book in a place of mourning and listening that is deeply transformative. By turns plain and transcendent, these poems meditate on trees, bacteria, wasps, buildings, roots, and stars, ending with twinned elegies and poems of praise that open into spaces that are both magical and archetypal for human imagination: forests and seashores. As always, Hillman's vision is entirely original, her forms inventive and playful. At times the language turns feral as the poet feels her way toward other consciousnesses, into planetary time. This is poetry as a discipline of love and service to the world, whose lines shepherd us through grief and into an ethics of active resistance."
https://poems.com/poem/angrily-standing-outside-in-the-wind/

"Like the horn you played in Catholic school". "At Last the New Arriving" by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/at-last-the-new-arriving/

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re: translation - ah.

re: link - Thanx, helps with the context of the poem and her writing :)

re: "Like the horn..." - Reads like hope upon hope of moving to the big city and the new attitudes of others. Especially liked "Dance until your bones clatter." Short bio and more of Gabrielle's poetry... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gabrielle-calvocoressi

"My heart was like a bird that fluttered joyously" - Charles Baudelaire; A Voyage To Cythera... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-baudelaire/a-voyage-to-cythera

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Baudelaire-Joy that ends in darkness.

"Nature has a thousand choirs"."Nature Has A Thousand Choirs." by Freeman Edwin Miller
https://www.poetrycat.com/freeman-edwin-miller/nature-has-a-thousand-choirs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8xYz9UI_pE Tempo Rei KinglyTime

Kingly Time

I don't delude myself
Everything will remain the way it has been
Transfering, transforming
Time and space navigating all the senses
Sugarloaf Mountain, Corcovados
Frustigated by rain and eternal wind
Soft water, hard stone
So much that there will be no thought left

Kingly time, O kingly time, O kingly time
Transform the old ways of living
Teach me, O father, what I still don't know
Mother Lady of Perpetual, help

Thought
Even the singular foundation of the human being
From one moment to the next
You can no longer find either Greeks or Bahians
Zealous mothers, owl fathers
See how dirty the waters suddenly get
Make no mistake, I don't delude myself
Everything right now can be for a second

Kingly time, O kingly time, O kingly time
Transform the old ways of living
Teach me, O father, what I still don't know
Mother Lady of Perpetual, help
Kingly time, O kingly time, O kingly time
Kingly time, O kingly time, O kingly time
Kingly time, O kingly time, O kingly time
Source: Musixmatch
Composers: Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira
Lyrics © Gege Edicoes Musicais Ltda

Tempo Rei - Gilberto Gil - LETRAS.MUS.BR

Song lyrics
https://www.letras.mus.br › MPB › Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil - Kingly Time ( music and lyrics)

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"Nature": Delightful poem :)

"Kingly": Beautiful song... especially liked the dandelion visual :)

"O dandelion, rich and haughty," - Vachel Lindsay; The Dandelion... https://poets.org/poem/dandelion/print

[Danik 2016]

Loved this homage to the dandelion!

"People who live by the sea"."People Who Live" by Erica Jong
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/erica_jong/poems/2858.html

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Incredible poem by Erica Jong: "People who live by the sea / understand eternity."... such is its allure :)

"Quiet he lived, and quietly died;" - J. D. C. Fellow; On A Friend Who Died Suddenly Upon The Seashore... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/j-d-c-fellow/on-a-friend-who-died-suddenly-upon-the-seashore-37830

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On A Friend Who Died Suddenly Upon The Seashore... Hm!

"Rattle and clatter and clank and whirr,--"."Vox Clamantis" by William Arthur Dunkerley (John Oxenham)
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-arthur-dunkerley/vox-clamantis-28269

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A poem of sacrifice during war... a bit forced in rhyme in a spot or two... but thankfully shorter than the same titled poem by John Gower... 10,265 lines !

"She had blue skin," - Shel Silverstein; Masks... https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/masks

[Danik 2016]

Loved this poem "Masks" specially the combination of text and drawing!

Browsed more poems of this author:

"There is a place where the sidewalk ends". "Where The Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/where-the-sidewalk-ends-4/

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Wonderful poem: "and the children, they know, / the place where the sidewalk ends." :)

"Urgency of almost bending an arm" - Ann Lauterbach; Door... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/159637/door-63d98c80a6f53

[Danik 2016]

Door... A bit enigmatic but certainly original.

"Vallombrosa! I longed in thy shadiest wood"."Memorials Of A Tour On The Continent", 1820 - XXIX. - Stanzas - Composed In The Simplon Pass by By William Wordsworth
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-wordsworth/memorials-of-a-tour-on-the-continent-1820-xxix-stanzas-composed-in-the-simplon-pass-4291

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Enjoyed :)

"Ways apt and new to sing of love I'd find," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet CI. Io canterei d' Amor sì novamente. / Reply to a Sonnet of Jacopoda Lentino.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/sonnet-ci

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:)

A poem by Xue Tao ( name beginning with X)

All Night I Have Listened
The early sun dissolves the mist
that has covered the mountain.
All night I have listened to the wise,
yet failed to learn.
Dimly, darkly, the eternal pines
rise without effort from the vanishing fog.
https://allpoetry.com/classics/famous_by/x

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"yet failed to learn"... sadly.

"You hearken, fellows? Turned aside" - William Bliss Carman; At The Road-House: In Memory Of Robert Louis Stevenson.... https://www.poetrycat.com/william-bliss-carman/at-the-road-house-in-memory-of-robert-louis-stevenson

[Danik 2016]

Charming poem: Stevenson, deceased, being welcomed by great fellow writers!

"Citadel of our best names—angsty Zooey &". "Z" by Julie Marie Wade
https://poets.org/poem/z

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lol... that's a lot about z's :)

"A moth ate words. A marvelous fate" - Unknown; Old English Riddle no. 47 (trans. by Roy Liuzza)
... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/159189/old-english-riddle-no-47

[Danik 2016]

Lol!Did anyone solve riddle 47?

"Back to where the roses rest". "St. Mary's" by Abram Joseph Ryan
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/abram-joseph-ryan/st-marys-30223

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re: riddle - I think so... https://www.bl.uk/medieval-literature/articles/the-exeter-book-riddles-in-context

Enjoyed "Back to where the roses rest": "Every single flower is fraught / With the very sweetest dreams, / Under clouds or under gleams / Changeful ever -- yet meseems / On each leaf I read God's thought." :)

"Cool! cool! cool!" - William Bliss Carman; A Faun's Song...
https://www.poetrycat.com/william-bliss-carman/a-fauns-song

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re: Fascinating link about medieval riddle studies.:) Saved the blog to have a better look later.

Enjoyed the light hearted Faun´s song!

"Does consciousness exist only when".The Mind in State" by Fady Joudah
https://poets.org/poem/mind-state

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Interesting dada poem :)

"Earmark me images" - Staceyann Chin; First Green... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/157963/first-green

[Danik 2016]

First Green -charming, original spring poem! :)

"Faint grew the yellow buds of light" "Om" by George William Russell
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/george-william-russell/om-30132

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Interesting creation poem :)

"Go, wander, little book," - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; Go Wander... https://www.poetrycat.com/nancy-rebecca-campbell-glass/go-wander

[Danik 2016]

Go Wander...Tender Christian poem!

"Hail solitary star!". "To a Star Seen at Twilight" by John Rollin Ridge (1827 –1867)
https://poets.org/poem/star-seen-twilight

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Beautiful ode :)

"I saw a proud, mysterious cat," - Vachel Lindsay; The Mysterious Cat... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/vachel_lindsay/poems/19168

[Danik 2016]

AAIII! and Lol! I tried to imagine it performed by children.

"Just look—nothing but sincerity". "Poem Beginning with a Line from It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" by Maggie Smith
https://poets.org/poem/poem-beginning-line-its-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown

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Interesting images: "the sky a tigereye / banded five kinds of gold / and bronze"... enjoyed :)

"Kilrudden ford, Kilrudden dale," - William Bliss Carman; Lal Of Kilrudden... https://www.poetrycat.com/william-bliss-carman/lal-of-kilrudden

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"Kilrudden ford, Kilrudden dale,"- A sad tale beautiful sung.

"Lying, thinking". "Alone" Maya Angelou
https://poets.org/poem/alone

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I can hear Maya's soulful voice reciting this sad/wonderful poem slowly in my mind :)

"My thoughts are like fire-flies, pulsing in moonlight;" - George MacDonald; A Mood... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/george-macdonald/a-mood-25260

[Danik 2016]

"A Mood..."Strong images in a concise poem.

"Now as I was young and easy under the apple"."Fern Hill" byDylan Thomas
https://poets.org/poem/fern-hill

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Simply incredible poem :)

"Our generation will be known for nothing." - Jordan Nichols; Our Generation... https://pulptastic.com/jordan-nichols-poem/

[Danik 2016]

"Our generation will be known for nothing." Amazing achievement by this boy. The singer Chico Buarque has a poem with the same strategie. It was written during the dictatorship and its heavy censorship when Brazilian poets and authors of lyrics devised forms and tricks to publish their poems.

"Pausing a moment ere the day was done,"."Resurrection" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/ella-wheeler-wilcox/resurrection-32851

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A poem of repentance and renewal of spirit through faith as I read it :) though she was a spiritualist as well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Wheeler_Wilcox . Poem also tagged in an article for Paul's letter to the Corinthians; 1 Corinthians 2:2... https://biblehub.com/commentaries/hastings/1_corinthians/2-2.htm

"Quite carelessly I turned the newsy sheet;" - Ella Wheeler Wilcox; A Meeting... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/ella-wheeler-wilcox/a-meeting-32765

[Danik 2016]

Meeting. How familiar this situation sounds! Enjoyed!

"Reclined on the scarp"."Cape Song" by Michael Metivier
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160510/cape-song

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Enjoyed ! Like three separate poems if one chooses :)

"Suspended lion face" - Philip Larkin; Solar... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/philip_larkin/poems/14593

[Danik 2016]

Solar. Beautiful, enigmatic poem!

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one"."Tomake a prairie" by Emily Dickinson

https://poets.org/poem/make-prairie-1755

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Wonderful poem by Emily :)

"Unto the songs and chariot fighting" - Friedrich Schiller; Die Kraniche des Ibykus (The Cranes of Ibycus)... https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/transl/trans_schil_3poems.html

[Danik 2016]

:) A favorite. The Cranes of Ibycus...One of Schiller´s most famous poems.
"Then hears one from the highest footing
A voice which suddenly is crying:
"See there! See there, Timotheus,
Behold the cranes of Ibycus!"
And suddenly the sky is dark'ning,
And o'er the theater away,
One sees, within a blackish swarming,
A host of cranes pass on its way."

"Vanish, dark clouds on high,". "Chorus of Spirits" Faust IV by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
https://www.escritas.org/en/t/3839/from-faust-iv-chorus-of-spirits

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Lovely poem: "While the sweet stars above / Blissfully gleam." :)

"We find your soft Utopias as white" - Vachel Lindsay; An Argument...
https://allpoetry.com/An-Argument

[Danik 2016]

An Argument... Enjoyed the poem, specially the strong images!

"I go through most". "Frozen World" by Deng Xiang

https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-deng-xiang/

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Enigmatic poem: "Enjoy the carefree / Wandering of goldfish"... Enjoyed :)

"Ye limpid brooks, by whose clear streams" - Francesco Petrarca; Canzone XIV. Chiare, fresche e dolci acque. / To the Fountain of Vauluse--Contemplations of Death.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/francesco-petrarca/canzone-xiv-28519

[Danik 2016]

Petrarca Canzone XIV- Wonderful nature descriptions but, as usual, a bit whiny when it comes to love.

"Sometimes too much of a good thing is simply too much". "Zucchini Chronicles" by Emily P Gibson

https://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?id=234790&AuthorID=90930

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re: Pet - agreed; believe this is why Herr Schiller advised his correspondent not to write love poems, lol.

re: Zuc - too funny and too true :)

"A washing hangs upon the line," - Elizabeth Bishop; Songs for a Coloured Singer... https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/songs-for-a-coloured-singer

[Danik 2016]

Songs for a Coloured Singer... A very interesting poem. Because of its simple, direct approach I was wondering if it was written during her stay in Brazil, but it seems to be a very early poem.

"Bats watched them fall, cupped like tiny palms,". "Forest Starships" by Petra Kuppers
https://poets.org/poem/forest-starships

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Incredible most contemporary poem :)

"City of palms! whose ancient name" - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; Zacchæus... https://www.poetrycat.com/nancy-rebecca-campbell-glass/zacchaeus

[Danik 2016]

Poem about a very important New Testament episode. I liked specially the part of the sycamore which shows Zaccheus eagerness at Meeting Jesus:
"Alas! how adverse were the fates
So dense the throng, so small was he!
Considering, he ran before
And climbed into a wayside tree,
And ever since the sycamore
Is blended with his history."

"dew grass a fire shine"."I Don’t Know What You’re Called, I’ll Call You by Your Sounds" bySusan Landers

https://poets.org/poem/i-dont-know-what-youre-called-ill-call-you-your-sounds

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Love, love, love this poem :) ... and audio ! When I grow up I want to write poetry like this :)

"Despite that you" - Todd Boss; Rocket... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/rocket/

[Danik 2016]

:)

Going on with "E".

"Elliot Ray Neiderland, home from college". "Angels" by B. H. Fairchild
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/angels/

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oops... I had fallen asleep at the keyboard again.

lol... "He lives, now, / in the south of France. His poems arrive / by mail, and we read them and do not understand."

"From a new peony," - Mona Van Duyn ; Sonnet for Minimalists... https://knopfdoubleday.com/2013/04/18/april-16-knopf-poem-a-day-mona-van-duyns-sonnet-for-minimalists/

[Danik 2016]

"Sonnet for Minimalists". Enjoyed this modern sonnet pairing bloom and decay!

"God gave me a mother, and I'll never know,"."God Gave Me A Mother" by Ron Tranmer
https://www.litscape.com/modernauthor/Ron_Tranmer/God_Gave_Me_A_Mother.html

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A sweet homage to his mother :)

"Here's to the mice that scare the lions," - Vachel Lindsay; Here's To The Mice!... https://www.best-poems.net/vachel_lindsay/heres_to_the_mice.html!

[Danik 2016]

"Here's To The Mice!..." Wonderful! to be distributed in most countries before the election of new governments.

"I cannot go to school today,". "Sick" Shel Silverstein
https://poets.org/poem/sick

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re: elections: lol... that and the movie "The Mouse That Roared"

re: "Sick" - lol, I wonder (without googling this time) which came first, this poem or the song Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh by Allan Sherman

"Just connect" - Yuliia Lapushanska; Connection... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/connection-56/

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re: I´ll have to look up "The Mouse That Roared" and "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" by Allan Sherman.:)

"Just connect". Had some difficulty in connecting with this poem.

"Keen in his blood ran the old mad desire"."The Knight-Errant" by Virna Sheard

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/virna-sheard/knight-errant-31227

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re: "connecting" - Lol!

Interesting poem with another after the ***... to counter. Enjoyed :)

"Laws, as we read in ancient sages," - James Beattie; Law... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw163.html

[Danik 2016]

"Laws". So true!

"Maru Mori brought me"."Ode to My Socks" by Pablo Neruda
https://poets.org/poem/ode-my-socks

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Delightful poem :)

"No man should stand before the moon" - Vachel Lindsay; A Sense Of Humor... https://allpoetry.com/A-Sense-Of-Humor

[Danik 2016]

A Sense Of Humor...Loved this poem!

"O fair mistrust of earth's more solid shows!". "O fair mistrust of earth's more solid shows...by Anne Whitney
https://www.litscape.com/author/Anne_Whitney/O_Fair_Mistrust_Of_Earths_More_Solid_Shows.html

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Enjoyed: "And mute appeal from its inhuman ways," :)

"Past the fourth cloverleaf, by dwindling roads" - Virginia Hamilton Adair; Buckroe, After the Season, 1942... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/buckroe-after-the-season-1942/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the images of Buckroe...

A poet with surname starting with "Q".
"He who writes a poem opens a window." Emergency by Mário Quintana
https://editoraauladeportugues.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/two-poems-by-mario-quintana/

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Enjoyed both poems by this wonderful minimalist :)

"Rhyme, the rack of finest wits," - Ben Johnson; A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a-fit-of-rhyme-against-rhyme/

[Danik 2016]

" A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme..." Enjoyed this modern poem from a Renascentist poet!

"Stand in a field long enough, and the sounds"."Becoming a Redwood" by Dana Gioia

https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/becoming-a-redwood/

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Love this poem :) My assignment for 9/7/2023 from our Tuesdays at Two poetry group is on/about/relating to/etc. trees; gives me another way to ponder.

"Two guitars were left in a room all alone" - Victor Hernández Cruz; Two Guitars... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/two-guitars/

[Danik 2016]

Curious about your assigned poem.

Loved the dialogue of the two guitars

"Upon a bank I sat, a child made seer". "Primrose" by Patrick Kavanagh
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/patrick_kavanagh/poems/14371

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Another lovely poem :)

"voice of incoming 2 express train" - Elizabeth Acevedo; A Daughter Named After Nina
... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a-daughter-named-after-nina/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed very much this poem and its aliterations, though I'm not sure I understood all of it. There is so much implied.

"Work out. Ten laps.". "Heartbeats" by Melvin Dixon
https://poets.org/poem/heartbeats

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re: "voice" - Agreed

re: "work out" - tragic

"X Out those memories causing you constant pain." - Gregory Huyette; X Out... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401872

[Danik 2016]

"X out"-Sound advice

"Ye scenes beloved! O welcome once again!"."Sonnet, On Taking A Favourite Walk, After Recovery From Sickness"by Thomas Oldham

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/thomas-oldham/sonnet-on-taking-favourite-walk-after-recovery-from-sickness-38940

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I think many can relate to this poem nowadays.

"Z is for Zest, you're so full of life" - Ginger Meow; Zhaira... https://discover.hubpages.com/literature/Acrostic-Name-Poems-for-Girls-Names-Starting-with-Z

[Danik 2016]

Charming idea to include Z name acrostics!And specially by someone called "Ginger Meow" :D.

"anyone lived in a pretty how town"."anyone lived in a pretty how town" by e.e.cummings
https://poets.org/poem/anyone-lived-pretty-how-town

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One of my favorites by e.e. :)

""Bring me soft song," said Aladdin." - Vachel Lindsay; Aladdin And The Jinn... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/aladdin-and-the-jinn/

[Danik 2016]

Interesting modern version of Aladdin. I like Vachel Lindsay!

"Children, I come back today"."The Negro Mother" by Langston Hughes
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/langston_hughes/poems/16951

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Wonderful poem by Hughes suitable for every day just two days since the commemoration of Dr. King's "I have a Dream" speech on 28 August 1963 :)

"Dead friends coming back to life, dead family," - Vijay Seshadri; Bright Copper Kettles... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/bright-copper-kettles/

[Danik 2016]

Very beautiful!

"Each poem is a star that shines"."To Longfellow" by Fannie Isabelle Sherrick
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/fannie-isabelle-sherrick/to-longfellow-31610

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Wonderful homage... and a letter of thanks! :)

"Farmers weeding at noon," - Li Shen; Toiling Farmers”... https://mandarinmatrix.org/famous-chinese-poems/

[Danik 2016]

"Toiling Farmers”..." Short and impressive, specially as a nursing rhyme.

"Go, little boy,"."The Boy" by William Henry Davies
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/william_henry_davies/poems/3076

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Simple sweet little poem :)

"He coveted her portrait." - Vachel Lindsay; The Moon Is A Painter... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-moon-is-a-painter/

[Danik 2016]

"The Moon Is A Painter." Enjoyed!

"Is that Eric Garner worked". "A Small Needful Fact" by Ross Gay
https://poets.org/poem/small-needful-fact

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Lol... maybe; enjoyed :)

"Just tell me who the hell am I?" - Al Young; Key to the Dollar Store... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/key-to-the-dollar-store/

[Danik 2016]

Key to the Dollar Store... Summing up the feelings of the younger generation?

"The Kings of the earth are men of might,"."Kings" by Alfred Joyce Kilmer
https://poetandpoem.com/Alfred-Joyce-Kilmer/Kings

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re: Key to the Dollar Store I found a bit of insight here: https://poetrymagicscience.wordpress.com/author/adelinesteffen/

"The Kings" - short contrast poem :)

"Lucy Locket lost her pocket," - Walter Crane; Lucy Locket... https://www.poetrycat.com/walter-crane/lucy-locket

[Danik 2016]

re:Key to the Dollar Store- Thanks for the analysis. It really throws light on the poem.

"Lucy Locket..." .Enjoyed the rhyme.

"Mother, oh mother, come shake out your cloth!"."Babies Don’t Keep" by by Ruth Hulburt Hamilton
https://www.nancyholtzman.com/babies-dont-keep-poem/

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Enjoyed :)

"Not every man has gentians in his house" - D.H. Lawrence; Bavarian Gentians... https://poetryarchive.org/poem/bavarian-gentians/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the gentians!

"O Merlin in your crystal cave". "Merlin" by Edwin Muir
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/edwin_muir/poems/2717

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Delightful poem :)

"Pale, with the blue of high zeniths, shimmered" - Amy Lowell; The Blue Scarf... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/amy_lowell/poems/20040

[Danik 2016]

The Blue Scarf... Wondeful poem! How much lyricism can a blue scarf yield! That is the poetry I would like to be able to write!

"Queer are the ways of a man I know:"."The Phantom Horsewoman" by Thomas Hardy
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/thomas-hardy/phantom-horsewoman-17489

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Delightfully sad poem... such a peculiar man :)

"Recycled over and over" - Angela C. Trudell Vasquez; Trying to See Auras at the Airport... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/trying-to-see-auras-at-the-airport/

[Danik 2016]

"Trying to See Auras at the Airport..". Interesting poem about ageing.

" still, living like they orbit one another,"."the world is about to end and my grandparents are in love" by Kara Jackson
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-world-is-about-to-end-and-my-grandparents-are-in-love/