Alphabetical Poem First Lines

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Sweet in using grand-parents in pondering the end of the world; the poem becoming more abstract as it goes :)

"This little bowl is like a mossy pool" - Amy Lowell; The Green Bowl... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/amy_lowell/poems/19997

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The Green Bowl...Sweet nature poem.


"Under which she pruned".Tartarean Sun by Kara Krewer
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160834/tartarean-sun

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Wow... strong imagery in a sad enigmatic way :( Enjoyed :)

"Vainly my heart had with thy sorceries striven:" - Sarah Helen Whitman; To –... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/to/

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ToInspired poem!

"Wandering around the Albuquerque Airport". Gate A-4 Naomi Shihab Nye
https://poets.org/poem/gate-4

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Naomi is a contemporary :) Warm, fuzzy, poem of humanity with subtle undertones. Enjoyed very much :)

"X or chi it's all Greek to me" - Brian Strand; X is for X... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/x_is_for_x_1570902

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Lol! Continue to admire your talent to find, albeit succint, poems beginning with X and Z.

"You are…you are not…". "Green: Therefore It Is". "by Miron BIAŁOSZEWSKI
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160855/green-therefore-it-is

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Thanx... a few more x's in my research queue :)

Enjoyed... interesting format :) An abstract of which I haven't the lens necessary to fathom evidentially... perhaps: ceramic piece? WWII? home? lifestyle?; an existential blur? The following is another poem by Miron someone tried to parse... https://evebigaj.medium.com/translators-notes-miron-białoszewski-s-mironagony-1942c7297411

May be a repeat:

"Z is for Zombie" - D.C. Jordan; Z... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/z_818161

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It´s not. Short and to the point!

"All these great barns out here in the outskirts,"."What It Looks Like To Us and the Words We Use" by Ada Limón
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56379/what-it-looks-like-to-us-and-the-words-we-use

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Lovely poem :) I get to rub shoulders, well, be in the same room as a California State Poet Laureate and a handful of more local laureates this Friday... some share the same vision as Ada.

"Beside the open window she is lying," - Nora Pembroke; Forsaken... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/forsaken

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re: Wow! You will be on a meeting with a California State Poet Laureate tomorrow? Who is it? Where is the event going to be?

Sad poem!

It´s not April, but:

"Calmly we walk through this April’s day,"."Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day" by Delmore Schwartz
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/calmly-we-walk-through-this-aprils-day/

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The California poet laureate, Lee Herrick: https://arts.ca.gov/press-release/governor-newsom-appoints-lee-herrick-as-california-poet-laureate/

I can assure you the event will likely be lowkey. Our new county poet laureate Stephen Meadows, and past county laureates will also attend at our public library in Placerville. I've known Stephen for maybe a handful of years: https://artsandcultureeldorado.org/poet-laureate/ and Taylor Graham, also noted in the link, is our Thursday at Two poetry leader. I may dust off a poem for the open microphone session... or not :)

Intriguing poem on poetic images: "Time is the school in which we learn, / Time is the fire in which we burn."

"Dense night is a needs thing." - Jaya Savige; Carousel... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/carousel/

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Korea+ California, interesting. Browsed poems by him on Poetry Foundation:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/77154/three-dreams-of-korea-notes-on-adoption. I wish you a nice event with you reading a poem at the open microphon session!

"Carousel". Original and modern! Enjoyed!

"Ever the nostalgic futurist"."How Do You Know the Sky Is Falling?" by Harryette Mullen
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160870/how-do-you-know-the-sky-is-falling

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Thanx !

Interesting poem and format... again a bit lost in the content, but an enjoyable poem otherwise :)

"Flute of life sing, sing in winter" - Eden Verse; Flute Of Life... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/flute-of-life/

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re "How Do You Know the Sky Is Falling?": I´ve also dificulties with some of these modern poems. Maybe they mean, what the reader wants them to mean. I looked for an analysis but found only a somewhat heavy article.

Liked the poem and its recurrences:"Flute of life, pipe midst of Winter/Songs of golden days of summer".

"get up, sister, when dawn"."For My Cats Gaspara & Alfonsina" by Michael Leong
https://poets.org/poem/my-cats-gaspara-alfonsina

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

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

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Incredible word play... and kitty cats/poets :)

""How, how," he said. "Friend Chang," I said," - Vachel Lindsay; The Chinese Nightingale... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-chinese-nightingale/

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Loved this poem. Just posted it in The Favorite Poem session of another forum.

"i look in the mirror, and all the chips i’ve eaten"." anthem for my belly after eating too much" by Kara Jackson
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/anthem-for-my-belly-after-eating-too-much/

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lol... can relate all too well :(

"Jeremiah Dickson was a true-blue American," - Delmore Schwartz; The True-Blue American... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-true-blue-american/

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"The True-Blue American..". Enjoyed this humorous and imaginative poem.

"He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be"."The Unknown Citizen" W. H. Auden
https://poets.org/poem/unknown-citizen

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lol... enjoyed :)

"I can see them squeezed into the holding pen" - Billy Collins; Flock... https://treehouseletter.com/2014/07/22/see-no-evil-poet-billy-collins-poetry-is-balm-for-the-soul/

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"Flock..." Interesting images!

"Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota,"."A Blessing" by James Wright
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a-blessing/

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Delightful poem with an even more endearing ending :)

"King Arthur's men have come again." - Vachel Lindsay; King Arthur's Men Have Come Again... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/vachel_lindsay/poems/19177

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"King Arthur's Men Have Come Again... " warriors in different contexts!

"Let them not say: we did not see it.". "Let Them Not Say" by Jane Hirshfield
https://poets.org/poem/let-them-not-say

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Enjoyed :) An anaphora poem... this form is for our next assignment for 9/21/2023 for our Tuesday at Two group... I'll borrow for my poem from another poet :) ... another contemporary poet too.

"My soul, do you remember the object we saw" - Charles Baudelaire; A Rotting Carcase... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-baudelaire/a-rotting-carcase

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On anaphora:https://smartblogger.com/anaphora-examples/

"A Rotting Carcase..." Typical Baudelaire!

"No idle gold -- since this fine sun, my friend,". "A Plain Life" by William Henry Davies
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/william_henry_davies/poems/3052

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Thanx for the link :)

And another... enjoyed :)

"Oh, but it is dirty!" - Elizabeth Bishop; Filling Station...
https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/filling-station

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Enjoying this realistic, Brazil evoking poem!

"protect through venom and candor."."Yellow Jackets—". by Kimiko Hahn
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/161064/yellow-jackets

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Enjoyed this stinging poem :)

"Quantum mechanics, with its perplexing laws," - Mawphniang Napoleon; Quantum Conundrum: A Sonnet of Perplexity and Persistence... https://www.poetry.com/poem/148757/quantum-conundrum:-a-sonnet-of-perplexity-and-persistence

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"Quantum Conundrum..." Lol, sigh! I fully agree with Mawphniang Napoleon. And congrats on one more "Q" poem( more difficult even than "Z" poems).

"Remember the sky that you were born under,"."Remember" by Joy Harjo
https://poets.org/poem/remember-0

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... and still another anaphora poem :) Enjoyed !

"St. Francis, Buddha, Tolstoi, and St. John —" - Vachel Lindsay; Above The Battle's Front...
https://allpoetry.com/Above-The-Battle's-Front

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"Above the Battle´s Front!"- To the point!

"There is sorrow enough in the natural way". "The Power of the Dog" by Rudyard Kipling
https://poets.org/poem/power-dog

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Incredible sweet poem :) ... "And when we are certain of sorrow in store, / Why do we always arrange for more?" :(

"Unto a horse-fair - maybe even travelling" - Friedrich Schiller; Pegasus im Joche (Pegasus in Yoke)... https://www.thechainedmuse.com/post/2018/11/10/on-the-anniversary-of-the-great-german-poet-of-freedoms-birthday-friedrich-schiller

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Pegasus im Joche - Didn't know that beautiful poem!

"Veil-like and beautiful". "Mist And Frost" by Duncan Campbell Scott
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/duncan-campbell-scott/mist-and-frost-30746

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Enjoyed ! "Fairy-like presences" :)

"Words are loyal." - Jane Hirshfield; Words... https://poets.org/poem/words-1

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Beautiful poem about language usage!



"XII(all I could do In the way of "X")

Some say that love’s a little boy,". "O Tell Me the Truth about Love" by W.H. Auden (1907-1973)(From ‘Twelve Songs’)

https://poets.org/poem/words-1

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Ingenious :) I found Auden's poem here: https://www.thereader.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Auden-W.H.-O-Tell-Me-the-Truth-About-Love.pdf enjoyed.

"You're always inflated when I set your sail" - Wallace Dean LaBenne; Quixotic... https://www.poetry.com/poem/82516/quixotic

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re Auden: Didn´t my link work with you?

"Quixotic..." Lol!!00% anaphoric!

A poem with "Z" in the title:

"I find myself"."Zero Or Nothing" by William Bonilla
https://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?id=338483&AuthorID=11634

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re: link - nope, went to Jane Hirshfield's Words

Zero Or Nothing: Lol, a bit convoluted...

"At once whatever happened starts receding." - Philip Larkin; Whatever Happened?... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/philip_larkin/poems/14595

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re links: Browser Sea Monkey had to be updated. Links should work now. Please tell me if there is still any problem.

I didn´t find out "whatever happened" but I found these analysis of Larkin´s poem:
https://poemanalysis.com/philip-larkin/whatever-happened/

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

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Wonderful poem... Enjoyed an audio reading by the poet with a short explanation by her as well: https://soundcloud.com/poets-org/petra-kuppers-forest-starships :)

"Come out into the open where" - Mark Kirschen; Invitation... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/158672/invitation-632c739e81608

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re"Forest Starships": Invitation... Thanks for the link, tailor. On hearing it the impression is very different, because one focuses on the sounds.

"Invitation..." Interesting poem, pessimism.

"Dedamet. I saw you, after the first flush of blooms.". "Louise" byTala Khanmalek
https://poets.org/poem/louise-0

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Incredible family history journey in poetic form :)

"Endlessness enfleshed in emerald & frost & shades I couldn’t" - Joshua Bennett; Trash... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/159239/trash-638e1e1549224

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"Trash"-A very ingenious poem!

"From low to high doth dissolution climb,". "Mutability" by William Wordsworth
https://poets.org/poem/mutability-0

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Wonderful poem: "which royally did wear / His crown of weeds" :)

"Garbage trucks" - William J. Harris; City Pastoral... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/159455/city-pastoral

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Can relate to the "City Pastoral..." only the trucks come late in the night.

"He was a big man, says the size of his shoes''. "Abandoned Farmhouse" by Ted Kooser
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/abandoned-farmhouse/

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A sad, sad poem that makes one want answers... an interesting tension :)

"I Lost My Talk" - Rita Joe; I lost my talk... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/i-lost-my-talk

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Impressive poem about silencing female Indian voice.

"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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Incredible poem :)

"Kind solace in a dying hour!" - Edgar Allan Poe; Tamerlane... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/edgar-allan-poe/tamerlane-1745

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"Tamerlane.." How passionate!

"Let them not say: we did not see it."."Let Them Not Say" by Jane Hirshfield
https://poets.org/poem/let-them-not-say

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Incredible poem - I used it to recite for my poem by another poet last Thursday :)

"My sister, my child" - Charles Baudelaire; Invitation To The Voyage... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-baudelaire/invitation-to-the-voyage

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"Invitation To The Voyage..."An unusual poem as coming from Baudelaire. Enjoyed!

A bit out of season:
"New Year’s morning—". "After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa by Robert Hass
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/after-the-gentle-poet-kobayashi-issa/

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Wonderful haikus :)

"October's leaf was sere" - Nora Pembroke; Tecumthe ... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/tecumthe

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I found some historical background to Nora Pembroke`s poem:

"Tecumseh (/tɪˈkʌmsə, -si/ tih-KUM-sə, -⁠see; c. 1768 – October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and promoting intertribal unity. Even though his efforts to unite Native Americans ended with his death in the War of 1812, he became an iconic folk hero in American, Indigenous, and Canadian popular history."

About the war of 1812:

"In 1805, Tecumseh's younger brother Tenskwatawa, who came to be known as the Shawnee Prophet, founded a religious movement that called upon Native Americans to reject European influences and return to a more traditional lifestyle. In 1808, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa established Prophetstown, a village in present-day Indiana, that grew into a large, multi-tribal community. Tecumseh traveled constantly, spreading the Prophet's message and eclipsing his brother in prominence. Tecumseh proclaimed that Native Americans owned their lands in common and urged tribes not to cede more territory unless all agreed. His message alarmed American leaders as well as Native leaders who sought accommodation with the United States. In 1811, when Tecumseh was in the South recruiting allies, Americans under William Henry Harrison defeated Tenskwatawa at the Battle of Tippecanoe and destroyed Prophetstown.

In the War of 1812, Tecumseh joined his cause with the British, recruited warriors, and helped capture Detroit in August 1812. The following year he led an unsuccessful campaign against the United States in Ohio and Indiana. When U.S. naval forces took control of Lake Erie in 1813, Tecumseh reluctantly retreated with the British into Upper Canada, where American forces engaged them at the Battle of the Thames on October 5, 1813, in which Tecumseh was killed. His death caused his confederacy to collapse. The lands he had fought to defend were eventually ceded to the U.S. government. His legacy as one of the most celebrated Native Americans in history grew in the years after his death, although details of his life have often been obscured by mythology."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh

"Pale amber sunlight falls across". "Autumnal" by Ernest Christopher Dowson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/ernest-christopher-dowson/autumnal-14246

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Thanks for the citation and link... an incredible account of Tecumseh and his struggles for an Indian Nation.

Wonderful Autumn poem... ours has started with a longed for mildness :)

"Quarantine, necessary," - Emmorrison; Quarantine... https://www.poetry.com/poem/105336/quarantine

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"Quarantine...". To the point. And congrats for finding a "Q" poem.

"Remember the sky that you were born under,"."Remember" by Joy Harjo
https://poets.org/poem/remember-0

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Enjoyed this anaphora poem by Joy Harjo :)

"Someone embraces me" - Vasko Popa; In The Village Of My Ancestors... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22629

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"In The Village Of My Ancestors...", great poem!

"The hand that signed the paper felled a city;"."The Hand that Signed the Paper" by Dylan Thomas
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-30882

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"Hands have no tears to flow." nor have a conscious :( Enjoyed :)

"Unslept hours--long and weary visit me" - Eliseo Guerrero Cervantes; Quod... https://www.poetry.com/poem/82517/quod

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"Quod...".Ai!

"Rain and rain! and rain and rain!". "We To Sigh Instead Of Sing" by James Whitcomb Riley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/james-whitcomb-riley/we-to-sigh-instead-of-sing-29404

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Lovely poem :)

"Sadly, O, sadly, the sweet bells of Baddeley" - Walter De La Mare; Sadly, O, Sadly... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/walter-de-la-mare/sadly-o-sadly-33306

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Ditto!

"To fish from a cloud in the sky"."Cloud Fishing" by Phillis Levin
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/cloud-fishing/

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Very imaginative... Enjoyed ! :)

"Understanding displacement" - Will Alexander; Living Detritus... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/158837/living-detritus

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Living Detritus.Very experimental and original.

"Vogelweid the Minnesinger,".Walter Von Der Vogelweid by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/walter-von-der-vogelweid-24153

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Wonderful poem... until the birds were ignored.

"Why Brownlee left, and where he went," - Paul Muldoon; Why Brownlee Left... https://www.poetrycat.com/paul-muldoon/why-brownlee-left

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Why Brownlee Left... Perplexing poem

A poem by Yu Xiuhua
"In Autumn

like I wanted, autumn bites me

and then gives me a long time: watches my wound swell, fester, heal

It says: “a commoner like you deserves a little pain,

deserves this slow, cultured agony” and

hands it over to the fallen leaves

in a nation where the red moon never sinks

some people swaddle daybreak in tattered clothes

bury the harvest deep in the ground to forget

they assemble in the streets

discuss unissued national laws

the arches of their feet, too, have wounds

blood flows from every street toward the People’s Square

the autumn wind has blown across their cheeks

those loved ones long separated from me—

I am afraid to recognize them"
https://clt.oucreate.com/poems/twelve-poems/

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re: Brownlee - I agree...

Enjoyed :) An insight into Yu:
• https://abilitymagazine.com/poetic-documentation-yu-xiuhua/
• https://theasiadialogue.com/2017/12/06/yu-xiuhua-travelling-through-the-mud-of-life-by-poetry/
• https://www.shs-conferences.org/articles/shsconf/pdf/2023/17/shsconf_clec2023_03004.pdf

"Your birth was the blessing of trillion stars" -
DEEPAK KUMAR PATTANAYAK; How Could You Know How You Came Here... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/how-could-you-know-how-you-came-here/

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re: Yu Xiuhua-What an extraordinary life story!Thanks for the links. It explains why there is so much reference to pain and difficulties in her poetry. I put her up in the other forum too, where they are always seeking new candidates for the Literature Noble. I think she would be a very worthy candidate.

"How Could You Know How You Came Here..."-Beautiful but immensely sad!


A poem in zejel form:https://areadingwritr.wordpress.com/2018/03/29/poetry-from-a-to-z/

Super Powers

Are all super powers something
about which we would brag and sing?
Or would many more likely sting?

Sure, some would be able to fly
And others detect every lie.
But somewhere a hopeful young guy
only bends like a chicken wing.

And a woman afraid of heights
Cannot see far distant sights
Or fight like a long ago knights,
But flies like a bird on the wing.
https://suebe.wordpress.com/2019/07/10/poetry-the-zejel/

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Enjoyed !

Cool !

Zéjel is a romantic Spanish form with Arabic influence related to the Qasida and adopted by the Spanish troubadours of 15th century.

Zéjel are:

syllabic, most often written in 8 syllable lines.
stanzaic, opening with a mono-rhymed triplet followed by any number of quatrains.
rhymed, the rhyme of the opening mudanza establishes a linking rhyme with the end line of the succeeding quatrains. Rhyme scheme, aaa bbba ddda etc

"Away up on the River aux Lievres," - Nora Pembroke; A Legend Of Buckingham Village.... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/a-legend-of-buckingham-village

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Chilling legend. Enjoyed!

"Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,"."Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen
https://poets.org/poem/dulce-et-decorum-est

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Tragic poem... had an English great?-uncle who fought in WWI who was gassed and actually made it home before it finally took him.

"Comrades, if I don't live to see the day" - Nazim Hikmet Last Will And Testament... https://www.poetrycat.com/nazim-hikmet/last-will-and-testament

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"Last Will And Testament..." A sad, intense poem about war and destruction.

"Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,". "The Weary Blues" Langston Hughes
https://poets.org/poem/weary-blues

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Wonderful poem :)

"early morning. down to the shore again" - Ovid; Beach Body... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/157716/beach-body

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"Beach Body... "amazing work on an Ovid poem. Read the accompanying note.

"For this you may see no need,"An Anthology of Rain" by Phillis Levin
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/92390/an-anthology-of-rain

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Enjoyed :)

"Generally Speaking:"- Crisosto Apache; 37 Common Characteristi(x)s of a Displaced Indian with a Learning Disability... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/158004/37-common-characteristixs-of-a-displaced-indian-with-a-learning-disability

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"Generally Speaking:"- Terribly good poem!Nothing else needs to be said.


"Huffy Henry hid the day,"."Dream Song 1" by John Berryman

https://poets.org/poem/dream-song-1

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A bit stilted but it works well... enjoyed :)

"I carved your name on my watchband" - Nazim Hikmet; Letters From A Man In Solitary... https://www.poetrycat.com/nazim-hikmet/letters-from-a-man-in-solitary

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"Letters From A Man In Solitary... "Beautiful and terrible!
Found some background:

"Nazim Hikmet’s “Letters From A Man In Solitary”

Prison ruin in Turkey
Nazim Hikmet was a Turkish poet, novelist, and playwright whose poems are considered to be some of the most powerful statements of the twentieth century. After serving several shorter prison terms, Hikmet was finally sentenced, in 1938, to twenty-eight years in Bursa Prison for his “Communist writings,” a verdict handed down not through the regular Turkish civil courts (who didn’t have the grounds to convict him) but through secret proceedings in the National Security Courts (a strange parallel to our current military courts for enemy combatants). In 1950, Hikmet was released early due to worldwide pressure and the announcement he would receive an International Peace Prize (along with painter Pablo Picasso and Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda). Hikmet fled into exile after 12 years “inside” and settled in Moscow, where he died in 1963.


…outside, with all its machinery and all its art,
a plains night comes down red on treeless space.

“Letters From A Man In Solitary” was written in 1938, the year Hikmet was sentenced to prison. The poem consists of three “letters” that Hikmet wrote to his wife, the only way Hikmet was able to send his poems to the outside world. Small things — the sun, his window, the sound of his own voice — take on large meanings in the small world from which he writes. Also, Hikmet’s language and surprising turns of tone and mood create moving portraits of a man who struggled most of his life to remain heard.
https://20thcenturyprotestpoetry.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/nazim-hikmets-letters-from-a-man-in-solitary/

"Jocko the Monkey, Mouser - his chum, the Cat,"."The Monkey And The Cat by Jean de La Fontaine
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/jean-de-la-fontaine/monkey-and-the-cat-21901

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Nazim - Such a life struggle: "Small things — the sun, his window, the sound of his own voice — take on large meanings in the small world from which he writes." Thanx for the background :)

"The Monkey And The Cat" - lol poem... another parable of never following the advice of a monkey :)

"Kate! if e'er thy light foot lingers" - Charles Stuart; Evening... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/charles-stuart-calverley/evening-38128

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"Evening..." Chaming and subtle!

"Life is short, though I keep this from my". "Good Bones by Maggie Smith
https://poets.org/poet/maggie-smith

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A mother's burden with a lasting hope. :)

"My father kept a speckled conch" - Sylvia Plath; On the Decline of Oracles... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/28128/on-the-decline-of-oracles

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"But I, I keep the voices he
Set in my ear, and in my eye
The sight of those blue, unseen waves" Beautiful poem!

"Nothing can ever happen twice."."Nothing Twice" by Wislawa Szymborska
https://poets.org/poem/nothing-twice

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Wonderful poem: "Why do we treat the fleeting day / with so much needless fear and sorrow? / It's in its nature not to stay: / Today is always gone tomorrow." :)

"O friends, I cannot comfort, but will share with you your grieving," - Nora Pembroke; Weep With Those Who Weep... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/weep-with-those-who-weep

[Danik 2016]

"Weep With Those Who Weep...". So sad!

"PAVEMENT slip'ry; People sneezing ;"."January, 1795" by Mary Robinson.
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw326.html

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Wonderful history lesson for JANUARY, 1795 :)

"Quietly running through the house" - Trisha; Quiet... https://www.poetry.com/poem/116725/quiet

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"Quiet"- Interesting poem starting with "Q"

"Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,".Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) from "In Memoriam A.H.H"- 106
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw383.html

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A wonderful tintinnabulous poem if I ever read one :)

"Stasis in darkness." - Sylvia Plath; Ariel... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49001/ariel

[Danik 2016]

Found this analysis to help understanding the poem. Ariel was the name of Sylvia Platt´s horse.
https://poemanalysis.com/sylvia-plath/ariel/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CAriel%E2%80%9D'%20by%20Sylvia%20 Plath,herself%20headlong%20into%20a%20charge.

"The wind is blue."."My Friend, Her Grandson" Pia Täavila-Borsheim
https://poets.org/poem/my-friend-her-grandson

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Thanx for the analysis :)

Pia - Interesting to add planes, sharks, and jets on an otherwise nice trip to the beach.

"Upon Dionysus the tyrant" - Friedrich Schiller; Die Bürgschaft (The Pledge)... https://www.thechainedmuse.com/post/2018/11/10/on-the-anniversary-of-the-great-german-poet-of-freedoms-birthday-friedrich-schiller

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re: Maybe "planes, sharks, and jets" are just the point.

I didn´t find any analysis, but here is this short comment about this poem by the author herself:
“This poem was written several years after the grandmother figure had passed away. She had been my best friend and sharpest-eyed literary critic for more than fifty years. It was a day during which such contrasting yet mostly harmonious seascapes were present: the lasting dunes, the wind, the water. And the young boy . . . where did he fit within the landscape? What would his future hold? This poem is also my prayer that he will not be swept into the violence of the military apparatus, represented by the planes overhead. He is now in middle school. I have great hope for him.”
—Pia Täavila-Borsheim
https://poets.org/poem/my-friend-her-grandson


:) "The Pledge" is one of the most famous and one of my favorite poems by Schiller!


"Verse-making was least of my virtues: I viewed with despair"."Verse-Making Was Least Of My Virtues" by Robert Browning
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/robert-browning/verse-making-was-least-of-my-virtues-6810

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Ah. :)

Enjoyed Browning's comparison poem :)

"Wrong solitude vinegars the soul," - Jane Hirshfield; Vinegar and Oil... https://poets.org/poem/vinegar-and-oil

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Interesting comparison poem "Vinegar and Oil..". Isn't there something in the Bible about vinegar and oil?

Poem title starting with "X" ;)

" 'Devil's share' is the portion of one's goods that cannot be usefully". "X. Dance of the Western Union Envelope How the Heart Leaps Up More Eager Than Plant or Beast by Anne Carson

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154790/x-dance-of-the-western-union-envelope-how-the-heart-leaps-up-more-eager-than-plant-or-beast

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Try again :)

"Vinegar and Oil Bible"... https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/vinegar-and-oil-bible

re: NT Bible... https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/6031/what-was-the-purpose-of-giving-jesus-vinegar-to-drink ... so it wasn't vinegar and oil given to our Savior... however when He was at Gethsemane, the olive garden overlooking Jerusalem, he sweat great drops of blood, like the first pressings of olives, while in supplication to Heavenly Father. There may be other references that I'm not aware of... More research ! :)

Such a sad poignant poem by Ann Carson. Enjoyed :)

"Ye who in rhymes dispersed the echoes hear" - Francesco Petrarca; To Laura In Life. Sonnet I. Voi, ch' ascoltate in rime sparse il suono. / He Confesses the Vanity of His Passion.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/to-laura-in-life-sonnet-i

[Danik 2016]

Bravo, you overcame the instability! I saw your earlier entry of the post above in "two words poem". Should it ever become too difficult, leave it there and I will try to transfer it, when on PC. Thanks for the research on vinegar and oil.

[Danik 2016]

From the three translations of Petrarca's sonnet 1 I prefer the first by Charlemont.

"Zed"."Zed zou aze z zast of z lezzers" by Miroslava Odalovic
https://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=462663

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Whimsical Z poem :)

"All paths lead to you" - Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff; All Paths Lead To You - Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff... https://allpoetry.com/All-Paths-Lead-To-You

[Danik 2016]

All Paths Lead To You- Beauty and Simplicity

"Between Hanoi and Sapa there are clean slabs of rice fields". "Rootless" by Jenny Xie.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/160753/rootless-64bff09e9cf33

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Enjoyed Rootless' light whimsical tone :)

"Clownlike, happiest on your hands," - Sylvia Plath; You're... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49010/youre

[Danik 2016]

"You´re" weird images. Enjoyed.

"Dare you see a soul at the white heat?"."The White Heat" by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/emily-elizabeth-dickinson/white-heat-13627

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Incredible poem about the refiner's fire by my distant cousin :)

"Even in dreams, your father is working," - ESTEBAN RODRÍGUEZ; 37 El Mundo... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/158282/37-el-mundo

[Danik 2016]

"37 El Mundo... "-Interesting poem illustrating the saying "To carry the world on ones back".

"Fairy tales are full of impossible tasks:". "Fairy-tale Logic" by A.E. Stallings
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/fairy-tale-logic/

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"Marry a monster. Hand over your firstborn son." ... lol; enjoyed :)

A bit long:

"Great joy in Madra. Blow the shell" - Toru Dutt; Savitri. Part II.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/toru-dutt/savitri-part-ii-15151

[Danik 2016]

Sad poem, beautiful descriptions. Maybe to many hermits in it.

"how the blood it fit into the body? how the body it fit".questions arabic asked in english (colonial fit)" by Noor ('DITEE) Jaber"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/161048/questions-arabic-asked-in-english-colonial-fit

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Very poignant and evocative sad poem...

"I shall never get you put together entirely," - Sylvia Plath; The Colossus... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89119/the-colossus

[Danik 2016]

"The Colossus...".Interesting poem. Enjoyed Sylvia Plath´s dark humour.



"Jacob Lawrence"."The Beauty of Bareness by WILLIAM J. HARRIS
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/159463/the-beauty-of-bareness

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Enjoyed :)

Found this page with regards to your poem offering: https://www.culturalfront.org/2022/09/william-j-harris-jacob-lawrence-john.html

"Know by the thread of music woven through" - Emily Pauline Johnson; Autumn's Orchestra... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/emily-pauline-johnson/autumns-orchestra-21441

[Danik 2016]

re : Thanks for this site, tailor. I like this kind of pictures. And they're very illustrative of the poem.

Loved Autumn Orchestra", this poem
organized like a concert and inscribed to "one beyond the seas".
"L" comes tomorrow.

[Danik 2016]

Long but grandiose:

"Let us go then, you and I,".The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot
https://poets.org/poem/love-song-j-alfred-prufrock

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Epigraph translation: from Dante's Inferno

“If I but thought that my response were made
to one perhaps returning to the world,
this tongue of flame would cease to flicker.
But since, up from these depths, no one has yet
returned alive, if what I hear is true,
I answer without fear of being shamed.”

Enjoyed :) "Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" Eliot reads his poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAO3QTU4PzY

"My voice rings out, this time, from Damascus" - Nizar Qabbani; Damascus, What Are You Doing to Me?... https://www.poetrycat.com/nizar-qabbani/damascus-what-are-you-doing-to-me

[Danik 2016]

Loved the translation of the epigraph.

As for the rendering, in spite of it being the author himself(and what an author!), I found it a bit monotonous.

"Damascus",- an all life poem! Wonderful! Put it up in "The Universal Poetry Thread" I opened on another forum.

"Nothing can ever happen twice.". "Nothing Twice" by Wislawa Szymborska
https://poets.org/poem/nothing-twice

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Delightful poem :)

"On a motorcycle moonstruck" - Troy Osaki; Places Our People Are Martyred for the Last Time... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/158793/places-our-people-are-martyred-for-the-last-time

[Danik 2016]

Liked this hard poem suggesting genocide by enumerating typical, all pacific situations where his people could be found.

"Pale amber sunlight falls across". "Autumnal" by Ernest Christopher Dowson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/ernest-christopher-dowson/autumnal-14246

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Wonderful poem and good timing for the Northern hemisphere :)

"quotes of teachers from the past" - Alana Sahli; Quotes... https://www.poetry.com/poem/82524/quotes

[Danik 2016]

A pessimistic poem but your talent for finding "Q" poems remains unsurpassed.

"Rain is falling through the roof."After Us" by Connie Wanek
https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/all-poems/item/poetry-180-024/after-us/

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"The sky is the color of gravestones." A description that evokes hopelessness... a poem that provokes pause... enjoyed.

"Stalemated their armies stood, with tottering banners:" - Sylvia Plath; The Snowman on the Moor... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=27374

[Danik 2016]

re "After Us":agree.

"The Snowman on the Moor..." Very original images, looks like scenes from a stormy marriage.

"To fling my arms wide"."Dream Variations" by Langston Hughes
https://poets.org/poem/dream-variations

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Beautiful poem :)

"Unquiet and restless he was" -DEEPAK KUMAR PATTANAYAK; Bounty of giving... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bounty-of-giving/

[Danik 2016]

Bounty of giving...-Curious to know who was the subject of this poem but did not find any background.


"Vast and mysterious brother, ere was yet of me". "Tree-Worship" - (To John Lane) by Richard Le Gallienne
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/richard-le-gallienne/tree-worship-to-john-lane-23612

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Delightful poem of trees, etc. :)

"Which eye s his eye?" - Elizabeth Bishop; The Gentleman of Shalott... https://genius.com/Elizabeth-bishop-the-gentleman-of-shalott-annotated

[Danik 2016]

Lol! Surprising poem! Enjoyed!

Poem by Zheng Xiaoqiong (surname starting with "X".

铁鸟 / Iron Bird
Time is like a grey iron bird fluttering against the window,
Moonlight treading on distant memories saunters into my room.
Mysterious reticent frost scatters, white seeds covering the ground
Have grown into tranquil trees, standing in the North,
Their leaves falling. I am in the South, looking into the distance, those happy times
Restored in dreams. The iron bird disappears into silence.
Those made-up faces flash past in-between the trees in the North,
Those imaginary loves of mine, each resembles
A grey iron bird, flapping its wings.
(Collected Poems by Zheng Xiaoqiong, Huacheng chuben she, 2008, 30.)
https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/zheng-xiaoqiong-translated-zhou-xiaojing

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An enigmatic poem for me. I found this re: bird symbolism in Chinese poetry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_in_Chinese_mythology ... also noted the connection of "iron bird" to Tibet which I can not reconcile in this poem.

"You are young, and I am older;" - Abraham Lincoln; untitled?... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw125.html

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re "Iron Bird". Thanks for the link. I thought of the rather obvious metaphor "iron bird" ="plane" but it doesn´t seem to fit the poem. Also found the connection with Tibet, https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews/when-the-iron-bird-flies-chinas-secret-war-in-tibet-by-jianglin-li-with-a-foreword-by-his-holiness-the-dalai-lama/, but can´t see any connection to the poem.

Charming Lincoln poem!

"O, my country, my country!"."Zaza, The Female Slave" added by "Poetry Lover"
https://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=345850

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Such a sad poem :(

"At husking time the tassel fades" - Emily Pauline Johnson; At Husking Time... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/emily-pauline-johnson/at-husking-time-21380

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed: "At Husking Time..." Every one reaps...

"Birds chirping. Loud orchestral music. Music stops.".Screenplay by Harryette Mullen
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160871/screenplay

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Interesting poem... enjoyable :) Found a (lengthy) in-depth interview about her poetry, and others of the black community, and so very much more: https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/mullen/interview.html

"cradle of the Black Madonna, oh" - Carolyn Marie Rodgers; Ethiopia... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/158576/ethiopia

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the interview, tailor. Just skimmed through it. It provides an insight into the creation possibilities and specially the difficulties of production of this community. I didn´t know she was a black author. Very similar to what happens here.

"Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a diving line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is in a constant state of transition, a fluid and improvisational space in which languages and identities hybridize and evolve."
Gloria Anzaldua( a member of the community, I think).

"Ethiopia.."Beautiful and terrible poem!

"De da'kest hour, dey allus say,". "Joggin' Erlong" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/paul-laurence-dunbar/joggin-erlong-14949

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Sad, sad dialectical poem so well written.

"Every time I travel" - Yrsa Daley-Ward; Coordinates... https://turkishdelightedblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/06/coordinates/

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"Coordinates..." Charming and to the point:"Sometimes you have to leave all your cities

to fall in love".

"Friends have I in Bohemia three ". "My Friends In Bohemia" by James Edwin Campbell
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-5218

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Lol ! :)

"Great forests you frighten me, like vast cathedrals:" - Charles Baudelaire; Obsession... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-baudelaire/obsession

[Danik 2016]

"Obsession...". Great images with Baudelaire just being himself!

"Her skin never wrinkled"."Secret Anti-Aging Formula" by Jennifer Prado
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/161088/secret-anti-aging-formula

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Another gem :) We have a city in California near Stockton named Manteca... never knew it meant "butter" :)

"I have done it again." - Sylvia Plath; Lady Lazarus... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49000/lady-lazarus

[Danik 2016]

re: Mantega in Portuguese. I think California and the larger region must at a time have been under Spanish occupation or populated by Spanish navigators given the profusion os Spanish names that have come to mix naturally with the English ones: El Dorado, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Nevada( snow storm) etc. I think this fascinating.

"Lady Lazarus..." Astonishing how the poem blends history and bodily subjectivity. And the idea of death seemed always to be very present in her poetry.

"Jesús José Medrano went away". "Villanelle" by Michael Luis Medrano
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/161062/villanelle

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re: California - yes... indigenous peoples came in waves sometimes supplanting each other, then the Spanish and Russians, then the gold miners' rush giving rise to conquest and statehood.

Incredible villanelle... a sad subject, but well done. Villanelles: I need more practice... terrible at them. We had a poet on LitNet once, Pen, I think, that crafted villanelles well with little effort.

"Kind friend, you do not know how much" - Hattie Howard; The Little Clock... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/hattie-howard/little-clock-20864

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re: Yes, I think that was Pendragon, he was still here when I registered.

Cute little clock:

"lusting and unafraid. In this bipedal incarnation"."In my next life let me be a tomato" by NATASHA RAO
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/160707/in-my-next-life-let-me-be-a-tomato

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Delightful and whimsical poem: "I want to be unabased, audacious, to gobble / space, to blush deeper each day in the sun" :)

"My reading is extremely deep and wide;" - Hilaire Belloc; Ballade of Modest Confession... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46684/ballade-of-modest-confession

[Danik 2016]

Lol!I looked for some analytical help to understand the poem and found AI in action:
https://keytopoetry.com/hilaire-belloc/analyses/ballade-of-modest-confession/

"No radio". "Radio" by Laurel Blossom
https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/all-poems/item/poetry-180-016/radio/

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re: AI - yes, encounter this site every now and then... actually used the metre of a poem once to try a binary code translation to assist in a poem once (lol).

No Radio - Amusing/sad state of affairs when owning a vehicle, anywhere :(

"On shallow straw, in shadeless glass," - Philip Larkin; Take One Home For The Kiddies... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/philip_larkin/poems/14588

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"Take One Home For The Kiddies...". Realistic, but didn´t enjoy the content :(.

"OH, greenly and fair in the lands of the sun,"."The Pumpkin" by John Greenleaf Whittier.
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw209.html

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"What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? / What calls back the past, like the rich Pumpkin pie?" Enjoyed :)

"Pomegranates fell from the trees" - Alison Hawthorne Deming; [i]Eve Revisited[i]... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/eve-revisited/

[Danik 2016]

(Sorry, just saw that my last poem should have begun with "P". Getting on with "Q")

"Eve Revisited" -Very interesting take on the famous Bible episode. Enjoyed!

A poem, title starting with "Q"."QUALITY! short poem.by Shakil Ahmed Baliyavi
https://www.poetry.com/poem/82466/quality!-short-poem.

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Simple deep poem :)

"Retired ballerinas on winter afternoons" - Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/retired-ballerinas-central-park-west/

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"Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West..." Enjoyed the poem, its rhythm and internal alliterations. Reminds me of my one visit to Central Park, where a squirrel took delicately a nut out of my hand.

"Still turnstiles framed by a window "."Hither Come Hither" by Richard Greenfield
https://poets.org/poem/hither-come-hither

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Enjoyed the odd format ; just when I thought it was over I'd scroll down and find more... and more... :) "The term Shinrin-yoku was coined by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries in 1982, and can be defined as making contact with and taking in the atmosphere of the forest."... Cool !!

I think to see the next whole poem one needs to > to the next page ?...

"Two girls there are:within the house" - Sylvia Plath; Two Sisters of Persephone... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=27203

[Danik 2016]

re:"I think to see the next whole poem one needs to > to the next page ?..." I don´t know, lol!

I´m getting to know Sylvia Plath though these alphabetical poems you post. A very own way of expressing herself, but it seems that the idea of dead is always present in her poetry.

"Underwater, my lungs burn at the thought of". "Swim" by Edgar Morales
https://poets.org/poem/swim

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Enjoyed the poem on swimming :)

"Very bright" - Afia Gyimah; Childhood Home... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/childhood-home-1/

[Danik 2016]

Terrible poem but very good in transforming with economy of words its atmosphere.

"What does he plant who plants a tree?"."The Heart of the Tree" by Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855 –1896)
https://poets.org/poem/heart-tree

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Wonderful poem!... have planted many trees :)

"Xystus in an ancient building" - Molly Shea; Xenia... https://henhouselady.com/2020/11/25/pleiades-x-is-for-xenia/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed this legit "X Poem" and the nano project of the blog. Disliked though the "Xenophobic tendencies in this spy’s heart", but at least the spy is honest.

"You would expect an uncountable number,"."The Bookshelf of the God of Infinite Space"by Jeffrey Skinner
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-bookshelf-of-the-god-of-infinite-space/

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Looking forward to that type of Library :)

"Z was once a piece of zinc," - Edward Lear; Alphabet Poem: Letter Z... https://www.dltk-teach.com/alphabuddies/songs/z/lear-z.htm

[Danik 2016]

Z poem to the point!

"And God stepped out on space,". "The Creation" by James Weldon Johnson 1871 – 1938
https://poets.org/poem/creation

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Enjoyed the creation poem :)

"Bubbling feet and slumbering eyes" - Deepak Kumar Pattanayak; The Lunatic... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-lunatic-haiku/

[Danik 2016]

"The Lunatic..." Not so sure I understood that poem.

"Come in, Maxim!... This is Minsk"."Guest" by VALZHYNA MORT
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/160692/guest-64ad87734faa6

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The Lunatic L1 - Best I can figure "eager feet while dreaming" ?

"Guest" - Found a short explanation... http://fivehundred-places.com/valzhyna-mort-translations

"Dear sir, your air of authority" - Jennifer Militello; Mansplaining... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/mansplaining/

[Danik 2016]

re: The Lunatic Maybe. Anyway madness and moon seem to be closely related.

Thanks for the link on "Guest"

"Mansplaining." Lol! I probably saw that poem before and thought it a bit too much, although there is much truth in it.

"E'en as the bird, who midst the leafy bower". "The Divine Comedy by Dante: The Vision Of Paradise: Canto XXIII" by Dante Alighieri
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/dante-alighieri/divine-comedy-by-dante-the-vision-of-paradise-canto-xxiii-14174

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Inspired poem... I need to read the cantos in full :)

"Farewell to thee, farewell my soul" - Eden Verse; Farewell... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/farewell-1/

[Danik 2016]

"Farewell..." sad poem...

"Give up sitting dutifully at your desk. Leave"."Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out?" by Ron Koertge
https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/all-poems/item/poetry-180-007/do-you-have-any-advice-for-those-of-us-just-starting-out/

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Enjoyed ! "Borrowed" this delightful ars poetica poem for our next Thursdays at Two poem group meeting to share in our poem by another poet segment :)

"Hungry for music with a desperate hunger" - Vachel Lindsay; Written For A Musician Poem... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/written-for-a-musician/

[Danik 2016]

"Written For A Musician". Interesting contrast between the everyday scene and the escepcional moment.

"In the mornings the heart". From “Moonlight on Pine Trees” by Nirmal Verma
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160875/from-moonlight-on-pine-trees

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Delicate poem. I think S3 could have been translated better but I enjoyed it just the same :)

"Jack would laugh an' joke all day;" - Robert W. Service; The Lunger... https://www.explorenorth.com/library/service/bl-rollstone21.htm

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed brave Jack´s saga!

"Know how you always buy that single can of lentil soup". "In Praise of the Classics" by Noah Eli Gordon
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160257/in-praise-of-the-classics

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Another soup metaphor poem... Enjoyed ! :)

"Letting the mind go," - Erica Jong; Zen & the Art of Poetry... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=389994

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A very Zen Ars Poetica. Enjoyed!

"My son starts every conversation"."The Bearing Edge"by Ralph James Savarese. (The comment of the poet on his poem, on the right, is very enlightening.)
https://poets.org/poem/bearing-edge

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Bittersweet poem, "fostercareless" - enjoyed.

"No one has yet to live," - Lawrence S. Pertillar; Qualities We All Have... https://www.poetry.com/poem/99386/qualities-w

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"Qualities We All Have..." A very moral poem.

"Once and once again I am as I remember"."Once upon a Time: Surfside, Miami" by Richard Blanco
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160880/once-upon-a-time-surfside-miami

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Minus the palm trees, and the seaside :( , I go back in spirit. Enjoyed ! :)

"Panels of claret and blue which shine" - Amy Lowell; The Exeter Road... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/amy_lowell/poems/20100

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"The Exeter Road..." A wild tale. Enjoyed!

A poem by an author with "X" in her name

"A squirrel alone with his thoughts". "Afternoon Notes" by Wendy Xu
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/161324/afternoon-notes

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Enjoyed :) Interesting poem... sought a poem by the poet mentioned below her title:

"you can't get out of this valley" - Bei Dao; The Echo... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14672715.1984.10409851

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I found out I skipped several letters in #1164. It should have been "Q". For organizations sake going on with "Z".

Interesting poem bei Bei Dao, sounds very modern. This is the first of his poems I read, thanks for the link, but in the Noble forum he is considered one of the greatest current poets.

"'Zero, zero and zero'"."Zero, Zero and Zero" by Hasmukh Amathalal
https://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=406941

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A "z" poem ! Enjoyed. Did not even notice the skipping of letters :)

"As a friend to the children commend me the Yak." - Hilaire Belloc; The Yak... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46686/the-yak

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Enjoyed The Yak... Red a bit in the biography of Hilaire Belloc who was a complex author in his time:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/hilaire-belloc

"Before the doctors stole his tonsils,"."Tonsillectomy" by Alexis Sears
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/160777/tonsillectomy

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Hilaire Belloc - yes, quite outspoken and controversial.

Tonsils - lol :)

"Can any one say what fun there is" - Mary Dow Brine; Grandpa and His "Dear"... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw229.html

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Grandpa and His "Dear"- Enjoyed specially the final twist in the poem

"Delayed till she had ceased to know,"."Too Late." by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/emily-elizabeth-dickinson/too-late-13581

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Perhaps one of Emily's puzzle poems... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogspot.com/2015/08/delayed-till-she-had-ceased-to-know.html but then other analyses like this one https://slowlander.com/2019/06/23/delayed-till-she-had-ceased-to-know/ are more general. Enjoyed :)

"Each new day is a wonder…" - Gregory Huyette; Zest for Life... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401884

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re: Thanks for the links, tailor to the poem by Emily Dickinson. I think both links complete each other. I didn´t know the poem was inspired by the character Cordelia od King Lear. I found this old version of the play for TV by two giants: director Peter Brook and Orson Welles as King Lear:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf-knQzfuM4


"First, grant me my sense of history:"."Postscript to 'Little Red Riding Hood'" by Agha Shahid Ali
https://poets.org/poem/wolfs-postscript-little-red-riding-hood

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1953 ! I'll watch the play in a little bit :)

Such a sad poem... enjoyed :)

"Growing up in a rural factory town I watched my creative family extend" - Caconrad; Introduction to (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/159376/introduction-to-somatic-poetry-rituals

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Enjoyed this Introduction to (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals... about how the factory background influences the writing of poetry of the author.

"Hold hard, these ancient minutes in the cuckoo's month,"."Hold Hard the Ancient Minutes", Dylan Thomas
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-30894

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Enjoyed ! Found a few analyses: https://eliteskills.com/c/20607

As a weather poem it reminds me to note a storm approaching you on the morrow for a brief respite. Re: Links... never sure if my PMs ever get sent... Thank you! The third link has a segment by an author whom I've met and attended a wonderful poetry seminar, and have one of her books that is extremally dogeared from my perusing and notes: Susan Wooldridge :)

"I’m a rock woman" - Anne Waldman; from Fast Speaking Woman, Part 1... https://poets.org/poem/fast-speaking-woman-part-1

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" Re: Links... never sure if my PMs ever get sent... Thank you! The third link has a segment by an author whom I've met and attended a wonderful poetry seminar, and have one of her books that is extremally dogeared from my perusing and notes: Susan Wooldridge".

re: Sorry about yesterday. For the first time there was a virus in PC. PC was very slow which probably accounts for the many repetitions od the PM I sent you. Glad that you liked the poetry book.:)

re Dylan Thomas. The analyses were very helpful. I didn´t know that April was the cuckoo mount and that the bird is a symbol of the cycle of life and nature. I only feel they could have explored more the more sinister elements of the poem.


"Fast Speaking Woman, Part 1... " Enjoyed this minimalist poem that relies on repetition.

"Just above the boxes and where the high lights fall"."At The Play" by Virna Sheard(Of course you know whose face it is).
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/virna-sheard/at-the-play-31222

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At the Play - an enjoyable rendering of being at the play :)

"Know'st thou the land where the fair citron blows," - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Mignon... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/mignon-16603

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"Know'st thou the land where the fair citron blows,". A favorite of mine this Song of Mignon.

"Little honey baby, shet yo' eyes up tight; -"A Southern Lullaby by Virna Sheard
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/virna-sheard/a-southern-lullaby-31228

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Awesome dialect poem: "Shadow man is comin' from de moon," albeit causing nightmares.

"my mother sacrificed her dreams" - Rupi Kaur; my mother sacrificed her dreams... https://www.stylist.co.uk/books/50-of-poetrys-most-poignant-lines/124113

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"my mother sacrificed her dreams" . Impressive quote, couldn´t find the complete poem though

"No one's serious at seventeen."."Novel" by Arthur Rimbaud
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/novel/

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#148... https://www.studocu.com/en-us/document/university-of-cincinnati/intermediate-english-composition/rupi-kaurs-the-sun-and-her-flowers-pages-131-150/44312835 ... the poem is complete :)

Delightful poem... o, to be seventeen again :)

"Once I loved a spider" - Vachel Lindsay; The Spider And The Ghost Of The Fly... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-spider-and-the-ghost-of-the-fly/

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re: "my mother sacrificed her dreams",thanks for the link, tailor.

"Once I loved a spider". I don´t think Vachel Lindsay was in his best days, when he wrote that. Anyway, one can´t deny the originality of the poem!

" Pa he bringed me here to stay". "A Christmas Memory" by James Whitcomb Riley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/james-whitcomb-riley/a-christmas-memory-29262

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Touching dialect poem... enjoyed :)

"Question everything; believe nothing" - Phil Roberts; QUESTION EVERYTHING!... https://www.booksie.com/posting/philip-roberts/question-everything-believe-nothing-179538

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Fully agree with the maxims of QUESTION EVERYTHING!.... So necessary at a time of Fake News and ambushes.

"Rain will fall again". The Cats Will Know by Cesare Pavese (translated by Geoffrey Brock).
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51514/the-cats-will-know

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Enjoyed; "The cats will know, / face of springtime; / and the light rain / and the hyacinth dawn"... a bit of analysis... https://paralleltexts.blog/2021/10/18/cesare-pavese-the-cats-will-know/

"Stars are dropping thick as stones into the twiggy" - Sylvia Plath; Stars Over the Dordogne... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=28954

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re: "The cats will know,".Thanks for the link, tailor. What a love letter!Or better, two love letters, one in verse and one in prose. I´ll have a look if I can find more poems by him.

"Stars Over the Dordogne...". Enjoyed the poem about the orphan stars.

"To fling my arms wide"."Dream Variations" by Langston Hughes
https://poets.org/poem/dream-variations

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re: Stars... found an analysis... https://poemanalysis.com/sylvia-plath/stars

re: Hughes - Simple poem at first glance, then more complex... https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/dream-variations

"Upon the verge;" - Deepak Kumar Pattanayak; A bride... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-bride-5/

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re: Enjoyed both analysis very much, specially the one about "Dream Variations".It occurred to me that flinging the arms about the body has also to do with they being unfettered.

"A Bride"- Enjoyed!

"Vill nobodies try my nice Annual Pill,"."The Annual Pill." by Thomas Moore
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/thomas-moore/annual-pill-27249

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An lol dialect poem :)

"When his ship first came to Australia," - Jane Hirshfield; Global Warming... https://poets.org/poem/global-warming

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Global Warming... Short and very much to the point. The reader has to made the connection between title and content.

A poem by an author with name starting with "X"."Chocolate" by Jinhao Xie
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/chocolate/

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"A hurricane / found underneath your seat is your uncle’s / reckless driving technique." Enjoyed :)

"you no longer believe in anything" - Anne Waldman; Matriot Acts, Act I [History of Mankind]... https://poets.org/poem/matriot-acts-act-i-history-mankind

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Anne Waldman; Matriot Acts, Act I -Will have to reread it to get a better idea.


"Zest of living one discovers"."Zest for life" by Ronald TirinoAnne Waldman; Matriot Acts, Act I [History of Mankind]..Anne Waldman; Matriot Acts, Act I [History of Mankind]..
https://www.poetry.com/poem/128873/zest-for-life

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Zest:Enjoyed - "Hearts at rest deep in healing / within the time of now extending" :)

"Away, ye peacocks, with my winged car!" - Friedrich Schiller; Semele: In Two Scenes... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/friedrich-schiller/semele-in-two-scenes-30722

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Just now I read Schiller´s short play. I had a selection of his works in three volumes, but never knew about this one. I didn´t compare it with the original but the translation flows well and reproduces Schiller´s highly dramatic style.

"Beneath all this I’m carving a cathedral". "Cathedral of Salt" by Nick Flynn
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/cathedral-of-salt/

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Sad poem: "some still imagine the air above the green / trees, thick with bees"... enjoyed :)

"Carrying bouquet, and handkerchief, and gloves," - Charles Baudelaire; The Dance Of Death... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-baudelaire/the-dance-of-death

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"The Dance Of Death..." The description of the skeletons is so horrible that it is almost funny.

"Dad reads aloud. I follow his finger across the page.". "Happy Birthday Moon by RAYMOND ANTROBUS
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/happy-birthday-moon

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Wonderful form and subject; light and touching... Enjoyed ! :)

"every time i read a poem and it s not about dashain" - Mansi Dahal; poem... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/158378/poem-62e80e4b08aac

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"Poem".Very interesting poem,specially its questioning form. Still finding my way on my new tablet. I can't find my favorites so the new poem comes tomorrow.

"For this you may see no need,". "An Anthology of Rain" by Phillis Levin
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/an-anthology-of-rain/

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I too have a new tablet :) underpowered for poetry creation though, so I'll leave that to the laptop.

Delightful poem! I was captivated by the title and it only got better :)

"Grim as gargoyles from years spent squatting at sea's border" - Silvia Plath; Dream with Clam-Diggers... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=27201

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Tablet: A Samsung 12,4 big (birthday present). Have still to organize a line up for alphabetical poems. Then I will try to use it also in the evening with its two browsers.

"Dream with Clam-Diggers..." A good but dark poem.

"Here is where"."Corn Maze" by David Barber
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/corn-maze/

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Sorry, bad link for my aforementioned poem by Sylvia Plath... https://allpoetry.com/Dream-With-Clam-Diggers

"To looking for cover / Were to bewilder // Your inner minotaur" :)

"I have been one acquainted with the night." - Robert Frost; Acquainted with the Night... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/acquainted-with-the-night/

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Oh, I see. It showed only the last stroph of the poem.

Enjoyed Frost's nostalgic poem.

"Jesus, He loves one and all"."Child Ballad" -by Charles Kingsley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/charles-kingsley/child-ballad-21740

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Sweet poem :)

"Knock with tremor —" - Emily Dickinson; Knock with tremor —... https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Knock_with_tremor_—

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"Knock with tremor" Emily´s visit to the historic past:"Should they rend you with 'How are you'
What have you to show?"


"Like a buck, I walk right into the woods,"."Shöne Madonnen" by Lauren Hilger
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/160779/shone-madonnen

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Enjoyed the surreal poem... trying to reconcile with the figure "Shöne Madonnen" - https://saschamehringer.com/beautiful_madonnas/ but there may be none.

"My window-pane is starred with frost," - Sara Teasdale; A Winter Night... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/sara-teasdale/winter-night-1787

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Interesting find, tailor.I also have difficulty in relating the image to the poem. But there is a mistake in the word schöne whitch may be deliberate or not.

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A wintry night. A beautiful poem!

"Nature, erewhile so marvelously lovely, is bereft"."Thanksgiving" by Hattie Howard
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/hattie-howard/thanksgiving-20828

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You're right about "schöne" - I missed that.

A wonderful poem of Thanksgiving :)

"Oh, cabaret dancer, I know a dancer," - Vachel Lindsay; How A Little Girl Danced... https://allpoetry.com/How-A-Little-Girl-Danced

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Beautiful poem about the girl dancer!

"Pale, then enkindled"."In-California:-Morning,-Evening,-Late-January" by Denise Levertov
https://allpoetry.com/In-California:-Morning,-Evening,-Late-January

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Wonderful poem of contrast; I lean toward the miner's lettuce, which we have, but never tried :)

"Quiet night" - Austen Beaulieu; Quiet night... https://www.poetry.com/poem/140759/quiet-night

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"Quiet night"- a musing poem.

"RACE of veterans! Race of victors!"."Race Of Veterans" by Walt Whitman(I suspect this is an excerpt.
https://www.poetry.com/poem/38122/race-of-veterans

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Enjoyed ! "Race of passion and the storm." :)

"Some days" - Nikita Gill; Wolf and Woman... https://allpoetry.com/contest/2764963-50-words---Nikita-Gill---wolf-and-woman

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"Wolf and Woman... "Enjoyed so much"

"The curtain—against the animals of moods"."School of Unhabituation" by MIRON BIAŁOSZEWSKI
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160853/school-of-unhabituation

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Intriguing poem... Enjoyed :)

"soir - espoir": evening hope

Re: "veil of Ananke": looked up Ananke - "Ananke, the Greek goddess of terrestrial light. Each morning, Ananke summons the Dawn, dispersing the dark veil of the night. It thus reveals the Ether, blue, brilliant of the day."

"Unquiet you walk" - Vasko Popa; Far Within Us #3... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22609

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"Re re: "veil of Ananke": looked up Ananke - "Ananke, the Greek goddess of terrestrial light. Each morning, Ananke summons the Dawn, dispersing the dark veil of the night. It thus reveals the Ether, blue, brilliant of the day." But in the poem it seems to be the opposite. The dawn dissolving mysterys and returning the habitual aspects of the surroundings.

Powerful poem "Far Within Us #3... :"We steal moments/"From the unheeding iron saws"

"Victor in Drama, Victor in Romance,"To Victor Hugo by Alfred Lord Tennyson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/alfred-lord-tennyson/to-victor-hugo-597

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Enjoyed the homage poem to Hugo: "As yet unbroken, Stormy voice of France!" :)

"When the riddle of life defies his powers" - Deepak Kumar Pattanayak; Forbearance Poem... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/forbearance-7/

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A wise poem.But 200 reiatives?

A poem with title starting with X:
"Dont stumble little Donkey please". "Xmas" by Dave James
https://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=361164

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Precious poem :)

"You are here for him," - Poet The M. Shafiullah; Queen... https://www.poetry.com/poem/111372/queen

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"Queen...". Lol!That´s what I call straight to the point.
Mystery: On the new tablet this site appears now with an ad-wall. Here on PC it is still ok.

"Zen poetry:Joyce". "Zen Poetry: Joyce" by Wayne Johnson

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Lots of ads on my laptop... some for apps to get rid of ads (lol).

Found your poem here: https://www.definitions.net/definition/yielding... Lighthearted:
"And i bow down, understand, do / the musical sphere / sing song ding dong lu dee ar eee."

"A beach back of bric-à-brac," - Paul Cameron Brown; Night Fishing At Antibes... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/paul-cameron-brown/night-fishing-at-antibes-35449

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Oh, I forgot the link of the last poem,sorry!

Night Fishing...An idilic poem!

"Baby's brain is tired of thinking"."Boston Lullaby " by James Jeffrey Roche
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/james-jeffrey-roche/boston-lullaby-39158

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lol... $5 words for a lullaby ?

"Consider them, my soul, they are a fright!" - Charles Baudelaire; The Blind... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-baudelaire/the-blind

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re lullaby?

"The Blind" Powerful poem! Liked it.

"Don't fill up on bread"."Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road?" by Robert Hershon
https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/all-poems/item/poetry-180-070/sentimental-moment-or-why-did-the-baguette-cross-the-road/

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Sage advise with an almost touching moment.

"Eros, what mean'st thou by this? In each of thine hands is an hourglass!" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Measure Of Time... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/measure-of-time-16763

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Was sotired yesterday on account of the heat probably that I went to sleep at 9 o'clock. Seems I forgot to log out. Senior episodes in streaming version.

Enjoyed this Goethe poem with it´s double image of the hour glass!

"Fire in the window! flashes in the pane!".Fire In The Window by Mary Mapes Dodge
https://www.litscape.com/author/Mary_Mapes_Dodge/Fire_In_The_Window.html

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Interesting short poem by the author of Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates. Thinking it's about the flashing sun before sunset.

"God knows how our neighbor managed to breed" - Sylvia Plath; Sow... https://www.eliteskills.com/c/9964

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"Sow... ". Impressive poem! According to the analysis it seems that the text above is part of a bigger poem where the poet links the image of the huge sow to the poetic labor. I tried to find the whole poem but didn´t succeed probably due to author´s rights.

"The hand that signed the paper felled a city;".The hand that signed the paper felled a city by Dylan Thomas
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-30882

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Sad tale: "Hands have no tears to flow."... enjoyed.

"It was not that I lived a life of ease," - Nora Pembroke; Bereavement... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/bereavement

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"Bereavement...". So sad (albeit beautiful) is this poem, that I hope everything is well.

"Just a shell, to which the seaweed glittering yet". Wamberal by Henry Kendall
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/henry-kendall/wamberal-8701

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Aside from being ill all is well... thank you for asking.

Wonderful poem. N.S.W., Australia nostalgia. "Come like ghosts, and sit beside me when the noise of day is still," :) The poet might be appalled to see how residential his beloved Wamberal is now.

As an aside... "When he was 15 he went to sea with one of his uncles on a whaling voyage and was away for about two years." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kendall_(poet)

"Knows how to forget!" - Emily Dickinson; Knows how to forget!... https://poemanalysis.com/emily-dickinson/knows-how-to-forget/!

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re: Hope it is nothing too momentous. Praying for you getting well quickly! Follow doctor´s instructions and take good care of yourself!

re: Thanks for the Moby Dicky aside.

'Knows how to forget!/But could It teach it?/Easiest of Arts, they say/When one learn how". I find it a very difficult art, fortunately.

"Loose leaves in a metal ball"."A Pot of Tea" by Richard Kenney
https://poets.org/poem/pot-tea

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Covid again for everyone! and I was current with vaxes which vexes the soul missing church and poetry and chess and doctor's visits and FHE this past week such a mess the mind can't take it all in but at least I'm at home albeit alone a grass widower still at best and the Church Christmas party was so sublime I hope all 100 of those who were with me for jury duty are fine :) - 12/13/2023

Just read the poem after my rant... lol; "Hermann Göring" an interesting misspelling that befits this stream of thought poem's theme nicely... enjoyed :)

"My familiar ghost again" - Robert von Ranke Graves; The Spoilsport... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/robert-von-ranke-graves/spoilsport-37785

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Hope you are improving quickly and family members to. Possibly away to avoid reinfection. Where are they all? And what is FHE?
Government planned a second shot for those older than 60 in spite or because of the festivities, because variants and infections are increasing again. Trying to get my shot today.

Hermann Göring

"The Spoilsport..."-Very interesting poem. Enjoyed!

"Not the music."."Not the Music" by Lorna Crozier
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/not-music

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FHE - Family Home Evening

Wonderful poem :)

"On twin tails of a comet" - Paul Cameron Brown; Twinkling Of An Eye... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/paul-cameron-brown/twinkling-of-an-eye-35467

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"Twinkling Of An Eye...Wonderful images
"Pan came out of the woods one day,"Pan With Us" by Robert Lee Frost
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/robert-lee-frost/pan-with-us-1230

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Enjoyed: "He tossed his pipes, too hard to teach / A new-world song, far out of reach, / For sylvan sign that the blue jay's screech / And the whimper of hawks beside the sun / Were music enough for him, for one." :)

"Question your assumption. Debate accepted themes." - Wallace Dean LaBenne; Question And Debate... https://www.poetry.com/poem/82489/question-and-debate

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Reads a bit like a behavior manual

"The Rav"."lllustrious Ancestors" by Denise Levertov
https://allpoetry.com/Illustrious-Ancestors

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"mysterious as the silence when the tailor / would pause with his needle in the air." :)

"S cur'ous-like," said the tree-toad," - James Whitcomb Riley; The Tree-Toad... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/james-whitcomb-riley/tree-toad-29470

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Charming song, enjoyed the dialect!

"'T is little I could care for pearls"."Real riches" by Emily Dickinson.
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/emily-elizabeth-dickinson/real-riches-13788

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Lovely poem by Emily :)

"Undeniable," - Amin N'rangwa Edanea; A T Z CHALLENGE LETTER “U” A HAIKU... https://outsideperception.net/2020/04/24/a-t-z-challenge-letter-u-a-haiku/

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Lol! Unbelivable! Poor letter "U".

"Vanish, dark clouds on high,". "Chorus Of Spirits" (Faust)by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/chorus-of-spirits-16817

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Beautiful moving poem by JWvG :)

"We waited for him, and the anxious days" - Nora Pembroke; Alas, My Brother!... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/alas-my-brother

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"Alas, My Brother!..." Again a very sad poem. Nora Penbroke (pseudonym of Margaret Dixon McDougall) is an Irish poet from 19 C. Her Bio in Wikipedia is very scant, no mention of personal losses is made.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Dixon_McDougall

"Xenophobia"."Xenophobia" by DM W.
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/xenophobia-14/

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed "Xenophobia" :)

"Yes I matter" - Deepak Kumar Pattanayak; Riddle Poem-3... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/riddle-poem-3/

[Danik 2016]

"Yes I matter" - Interesting riddle poem.

Zombie Cowboy Haiku
by Stan Swanson

"Zombie cowboy dance

In herky-jerky motion

Howling at the moon."
https://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?id=268747&AuthorID=66387

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Lol haiku ! Enjoyed :)

"Ah, in the night, all music haunts me here...." - Vachel Lindsay; The Amaranth... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/vachel-lindsay/amaranth-23974

[Danik 2016]

"Though it may not b/ Just as I dream, it comes at last I know" "The Amaranth..." Enjoyed.

"Blue-white afternoon. The Bow river churns and smokes". "Walking with Walt Whitman Through Calgary's Eastside on a Winter Day"
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/walking-walt-whitman-through-calgarys-eastside-winter-day

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Bitter sweet poem of the present age and thoughts not acted upon and life goes on.

"Come, ho! sing, ho! ye chimney sprites," - Mary Mapes Dodge; A Song Of Saint Nicholas... https://www.litscape.com/author/Mary_Mapes_Dodge/A_Song_Of_Saint_Nicholas.html

[Danik 2016]

Charming St. Nicholas poem!

"Beneath the softly falling snow"."The Changing Road" by Katharine Lee Bates
https://www.litscape.com/author/Katharine_Lee_Bates/The_Changing_Road.html

[tailor STATELY]

An enchanting poem... "The river will be locked in hush / But frosted like a fairy lawn / With knots of crystal flowers that flush / By moonlight, blanching in the dawn."... :)

"Come, Summer, come, nor in the south delay;" - W. M. MacKeracher; Invocation To Summer... https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=2602