Alphabetical Poem First Lines

[Danik 2016]

"Invocation To Summer..." Very opportune poem by the high "Spring" temperatures we are having here. if I were a solid poet I would write its complement: "Go, Summer go, not in the south delay;"

"Dance to the beat of the rain, little Fern,"."Fern Song" by John Banister Tabb
https://www.litscape.com/author/John_Banister_Tabb/Fern_Song.html

[tailor STATELY]

Simply wonderful little poem :)

"Eve must have wept to leave her flowers," - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; Eve's Flowers... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/nancy-rebecca-campbell-glass/eves-flowers-16464

[Danik 2016]

Nice flower poem

"Facing west, from California's shores"."Facing west, from California's shores" by Walt Whitman
From public domain Some problem with copying the link.

[tailor STATELY]

“Facing west, from California's shores” - Facing West From California's Shores by Walt Whitman https://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1891/poems/43 - " Facing west from California's shores, / Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound, / I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, / the land of migrations, look afar," :) :) :)

"God speaks to the soul" - Mechthild of Magdeburg; God Speaks to the Soul... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/158617/god-speaks-to-the-soul

... Bio - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mechthild-of-magdeburg

[Danik 2016]

re:Thanks for the link on “Facing west, from California's shores”. Copy/paste on tablet with the finger sometimes doesn't work.

Thank you so much for the poem and bio on Mechthild von Magdeburg :):) :).It´s one of your great finds. Lapidar simplicity and one the same time she writes like someone who has a direct communication channel to God, which she had. I looked for the poem in German, but didn´t find this particular one. It shows again how most German women authors were ignored, some until the 20C.

"Ha! whare ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie!"."To A Louse, On Seeing One In A Lady's Bonnet, At Church" by Robert Burns
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/robert-burns/to-a-louse-on-seeing-one-in-a-ladys-bonnet-at-church-9937

[tailor STATELY]

Lol dialectic poem :)

"I am a miner. The light burns blue." - Sylvia Plath; Nick and the Candlestick... https://www.mahmag.org/english/worldpoetry.php?itemid=409

[Danik 2016]

Nick and the Candlestick. Powerful images. Found this helpful analysis:https://www.belrosetutoring.com/hsc-text-nick-and-the-candlestick.

"Jes' a little bit o' feller - I remember still -".Who Santy-Claus Wuz by James Whitcomb Riley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/james-whitcomb-riley/who-santy-claus-wuz-29437

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed the analysis :)

Now this dialect poem was difficult for me, evidentially by design -
a poem by the "Hoosier Poet": "Who Santy-Claus Wuz" is one of Riley's “low readability” poems per a paper "The Difficulty of Dialect Poetry"...
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/oa_monograph/chapter/897050 page 13

"Kind friend, you do not know how much" - Hattie Howard; The Little Clock... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8614483-The-Little-Clock-by-Hattie-Howard

[Danik 2016]

Oh sorry, didn´t want to choose a difficult poem, specially not at this time of year when the head is occupied with other things. What happens with me is that today because of poems and all I am more used to reading English dialect than even German (original poems from Mechthild from Magdeburg are in medieval German- beautiful but difficult to understand)Love Planted A Rose
by Katharine Lee Bates and I liked the general idea of the poem. Your ingenious defense is accepted and going to be read after Christmas.

Loved "The Little Clock.."
"Ah, well! the little clock has proved
The best of all bonanzas;
And thus my happy heart is moved
To these effusive stanzas."

"Love planted a rose,". "Love Planted A Rose" by Katharine Lee Bates
https://www.litscape.com/author/Katharine_Lee_Bates/Love_Planted_A_Rose.html

A merry Christmas party for you and your family!

[tailor STATELY]

Thank you so much, and to you and yours :)

"... And the world turned sweet." - sweet poem :)

"My palace of gold" - Shiraz Bautista; One Fragile Prayer... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/one-fragile-prayer/

[Danik 2016]

Shiraz Bautista; One Fragile Prayer-Radical but identify often with these feelings of loss and being lost.


"Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring,".Sonnet On Hearing The Dies Irae Sung In The Sistine Chapel by Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/oscar-wilde/sonnet-on-hearing-the-dies-irae-sung-in-the-sistine-chapel-36211

[tailor STATELY]

I agree with Wilde... https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=Dies+Irae&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:1d13a540,vid:X6cogix3cwQ,st:0 Not in the Sistine Chapel but a wee bit frenetic for such a storied edifice.

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

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for this background research, tailor! I was even a bit in doubt if Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was THE Oscar Wilde with this serious poem. Good to know about the Irate Days as they seem to be back.

Beautiful poem: "I know a dancer, I know a dancer,/Who lifts us toward peace, from this earth that is vain".

"Passion sits on the skull". "Passion And The Skull" by Charles Baudelaire
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/charles-baudelaire/passion-and-the-skull-9031

[tailor STATELY]

A rather odd vision of bubbles... enjoyed :)

"Quick! we have but a second" - Thomas Moore; Quick! We Have But a Second... https://www.poetry.com/poem/36890/quick!-we-have-but-a-second

[Danik 2016]

Charming drinking song!"Quick! We Have But a Second..." Live and enjoy yourself while you can.

"Redbirds, redbirds,"."Redbirds by SaraTeasdale
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/books/teasdale/flame01.html#11

[tailor STATELY]

Wonderful poem! "Trailing stately round her bluffs / Where the poplars grow --" :)

"Since ere I left my native isle," - Nora Pembroke; To Isabel... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/to-isabel-isabella-stewart

[Danik 2016]

re "Redbirds": lol!

Beautiful poem!

"There is a thing in me that dreamed of trees,"."A Dream of Trees" by Mary Oliver
https://www.poetrycat.com/mary-oliver/a-dream-of-trees

[tailor STATELY]

"I would have time, I thought, and time to spare, / With only streams and birds for company. / To build out of my life a few wild stanzas. / And then it came to me, that so was death,"... Incredible ! :)

"Upon the shore, a mile or more" - Guy Wetmore Carryl; The Rude Rat And The Unostentatious Oyster... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/guy-wetmore-carryl/rude-rat-and-the-unostentatious-oyster-12874

[Danik 2016]

"The Rude Rat And The Unostentatious Oyster" Lol! A charming poem, more fluid still with its internal rhymes.

"Voices out of the shade that cried,"."Flight" by Rupert Brooke
https://www.rupertbrooke.com/poems/1908-1911/flight/

[tailor STATELY]

Sad moving poem :)

"Walking through trees to cool my heat and pain," - Robert von Ranke Graves; Not Dead... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/robert-von-ranke-graves/not-dead-37802

[Danik 2016]

This one too: sad and beautiful.

Poem with X in the title:
"Around Xmas time". "Xmas Wish" by Douglas Scotney
https://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369516

[tailor STATELY]

Timely poem, enjoyed especially S2 :)

"You are what you eat" - Deepak Kumar Pattanayak; Appetite... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/appetite-9/

[Danik 2016]

Very interesting poem about eating habits. Enjoyed.

Two songs of a play with a title starting with "Z":

"A sunny shaft did I behold,"."Zapolya" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
https://verse.press/poem/songs-from-the-play-zapolya-19859

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed the first much better: "... Sweet bird, thou wert enchanted! // He sank, he rose, he twinkled, he trolled / Within that shaft of sunny mist; / His eyes of fire, his beak of gold, / All else of amethyst!" :)

"A beautiful form and a beautiful face," - Fannie Isabelle Sherrick; Two Pictures... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/fannie-isabelle-sherrick/two-pictures-31613

[Danik 2016]

re: Me too.

"Two Pictures...". Meaningful. Unfortunately the number of hungry people has only increased.

"Beneath all this I’m carving a cathedral"."Cathedral of Salt" by Nick Flynn

https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/cathedral-of-salt/

[tailor STATELY]

Enigmatic poem... enjoyed :) Found this:
Flynn is committed to facing hard realities and trying to explain what it is like to bear them, and he’s a good builder of metaphors that help us understand. In “Cathedral of Salt,” the speaker describes his work (a bit like the narrator of Kafka’s short story “The Burrow”) on a secret cathedral: “Beneath all this I’m carving a cathedral/of salt. I keep/the entrance hidden, no one seems to notice/the hours I’m missing . . .” A cathedral is a spiring structure, meant to be seen for miles around, to last through the ages. Flynn’s “Cathedral of Salt” on the other hand is both under everything visible and ephemeral—made of salt. It is a lonely place, meant for one. The narrator knows all this, but keeps working on it: Neither you

nor your soul is waiting for me at

the end of this, I know that now, the salt

nearly clear after I

chisel out the pews, the see-through

altar, the opaque

panes of glass that depict the stations of

our cross—Here is the day

we met, here is the day we remember we

met . . . The air down here

will kill us, some say, some wear paper

masks, some still imagine the air above the green

trees, thick with bees

building solitary nests out of petals. What’s

the name for that? Ineffable? The endless

white will blind you, some say . . .

These lines are sharply drawn, with enjambments that push us to keep reading. I can’t help but see “Cathedral of Salt” as reflecting Flynn’s ambivalence about poems: their artifice, their thin and papery beauty, how they can “kill” the particulars of real stories or at least disguise them, sometimes reverting to pastoral imaginings, creating “masks” of paper that hide the reality of “all this.” But the act of making is meaningful to the narrator; it is a way to depict “the stations of/our cross,” to make a fleeting monument to human feeling. - https://therumpus.net/2015/07/10/my-feelings-by-nick-flynn/#:~:text=I%20can%27t%20help%20but,reality%20of%20“ all%20this.”

another of his poems:

"Children under, say, ten, shouldn't know" - Nick Flynn; Cartoon Physics, part 1... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/cartoon-physics-part-1/

[Danik 2016]

re: A very interesting analysis, tailor! Fitting comparison with Kafka´s “The Burrow”, only there is in Kafka a paranoia a eternal watching of all entrances, which seems to me wholly absent in the poem.

"Physics, part 1.." Also an interesting reflection on the classical comics and films where the heroes survive unscated the most dangerous situations.

"Don't enter conversations "."How To Tell Your Mother There Will Be No Grandkids In Her Future"by Ira Sukrungruang
https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/all-poems/item/poetry-180-088/how-to-tell-your-mother-there-will-be-no-grandkids-in-her-future/

[tailor STATELY]

Heart breaking poem... enjoyed :)

"Elfins of the Autumn night," - Madison Julius Cawein; There Are Fairies... https://internetpoem.com/madison-julius-cawein/there-are-fairies-poem/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed so much the elfin poem!


"Fly to the land of freedom"."Fly to the Land of Freedom" by Chitra Arun
https://internetpoem.com/chitra-arun/fly-to-the-land-of-freedom-poem/

[tailor STATELY]

Lovely, albeit, melancholy poem: "Wish you lead me to that distant land of absolute freedom sans shame and fear!"... enjoyed :)

"Green Tunisia, I have come to you as a lover" - Nizar Qabbani; A Damascene Moon... https://www.poetrycat.com/nizar-qabbani/a-damascene-moon

[Danik 2016]

Beautiful poem! I love this poet!

Another poem by him:
"He lets me listen, when he moves me,"."Words" by Nizar Qabbani
https://www.poetrycat.com/nizar-qabbani/words

[tailor STATELY]

Poetry :)

"I cannot write, my tears are flowing fast," - Nora Pembroke; Good-Bye... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/good-bye

[Danik 2016]

"Good-Bye...". So sad!

"Joyful lady, sing!"."To A Lady Playing And Singing In The Morning" by Thomas Hardy
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/thomas-hardy/to-a-lady-playing-and-singing-in-the-morning-17149

[tailor STATELY]

Joyful poem with some internal rhyme :)

"Knowledge to one is a goddess both heavenly and high, to another" - Friedrich Schiller; Knowledge... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/friedrich-schiller/knowledge-30632

[Danik 2016]

"Knowledge",lol!

"Laugh your best, O blazoned forests,".
The Lamp Post by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/gilbert-keith-chesterton/lamp-post-12153

[tailor STATELY]

Railing against poets ? :( Enjoyed the convoluted tale :)

"MacLeod's wizard flag from the grey castle sallies," - Walter Scott (Sir); MacKrimmon's Lament... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/walter-scott/mackrimmons-lament-7082

[Danik 2016]

My idea of Scotland: Castles, battles and a lot of Macks! Enjoyed!

"Nasal intonations of light"."Jaguar by Lola Ridge
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/lola-ridge/jaguar-29122

[tailor STATELY]

Interesting poem... Lola Ridge appeared to be a very complex poet and perhaps a jaguar in her own right. "Ridge dedicated her poem "Jaguar" to Evelyn Scott in March 1919 issue (of Others)."... https://www.google.com/books/edition/Anything_That_Burns_You/b7-zCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=jaguar+"Lola+Ridge"+"Evelyn+Scott"&pg=PT148&printsec=frontcover There's more at that link but it wont allow copy/paste. I found the attributes of the jaguar... https://www.universeofsymbolism.com/jaguar-symbolism.html

"One day in ashy, cindery terrains," - Charles Baudelaire; Beatrice... https://www.poetryverse.com/charles-baudelaire-poems/beatrice

[Danik 2016]

re Lola Ridge: Looked up Evelyn Scott. She is an USA author, who run off to Brazil with her first husband so she must have been very daring. Loved the link about the Jaguar. Today the animal may also be seen as a symbol of survival, as so many perish when the woods burn.

re "Beatrice...". Enjoyed specially the Lowell translation of this reference poem to Dante´s "Divine Comedy". Baudelaire being Baudelaire, Beatrice is reduced to cinders.

"Perhaps in some respects it's true"."His Sense Of Humor" by Ringgold Wilmer Lardner
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/ringgold-wilmer-lardner/his-sense-of-humor-22607

[tailor STATELY]

lol :) enjoyed.

"Quiet" - Rob Roy Foresman; Quiet... https://www.poetry.com/poem/82509/quiet

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the poem!:)

"Rare-sweet the air in that unimagined country -". The Unfinished Dream by Walter De La Mare

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/walter-de-la-mare/unfinished-dream-33278

[tailor STATELY]

Wonderful!, delightsome poem by De La Mare ! :)

"Seek not to calm my grief," - Nora Pembroke; A Mother's Lament For An Only One... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/a-mothers-lament-for-an-only-one

[Danik 2016]

Sad, beautiful poem but I really hope all is well. When there is much Nora Penbroke I get worried.

"Three are emerald pools in the sea,"."At Sea" by Duncan Campbell Scott
https://www.poetrycat.com/duncan-campbell-scott/at-sea

[tailor STATELY]

Everything's wonderful.

Enjoyed Duncan's poem :)

More De La Mare :) ...

"Umbrageous cedars murmuring symphonies" - Walter De La Mare; Hamlet... Pg. 248 - 249 of the .pdf: http://misscp.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/1/2/31129815/best_hamlet_resource_critical_theory.pdf

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for this precious Shakespeare volume with essays of great authors! I´ll Have much to read the next day!

"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

[tailor STATELY]

Magical poem ! :)

"When shivering leaves are off" - Deepak Kumar Pattanayak; Bridging the gap... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bridging-the-gap-4/

[Danik 2016]

Lol!Sympathetic Poem!

A poem with "X" in the title and almost beginning with "X":

"Around Xmas time". "Xmas Wish" by Douglas Scotney.
https://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369516

[tailor STATELY]

Lol, makes sense to me :)

"Your zeal and my zeal," - Edward Kofi Louis; Zeal... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=380982

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed! Isn't some verb missing in this verse,"And i will to you very soon"?


"ZERO"."Zero Forces Infinity" by Terry O'Leary
http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=528194

[tailor STATELY]

EFL is from Ghana... I'm thinking English is not his first language... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Ghana#:~:text=Akan%2C%20part%20of%20t he%20Kwa,widely%20spoken%20language%20in%20Ghana.

"Zero" - lol, justifying theories by dividing by zero... I just don't get it.

"Aye," said the boozer, "I tell you it's true, sir," - Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton); How The Favourite Beat Us... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/banjo-paterson-andrew-barton/how-the-favourite-beat-us-4831

[Danik 2016]

re:Thanks for the handsup and interesting link on Ghana languages!

"Zero". Didn't get it either. Problem is the lack of choice in first line beginning with Z poems.

Lol!Some betting words escaped me, but on the rule understood and enjoyed the poem.

"Baby-bird, baby-bird,"."Baby-Bird" by Algernon Charles Swinburne
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/algernon-charles-swinburne/baby-bird-7903

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed Baby-Bird: "All your flickering fingers, / All your twinkling toes, / Play like light that lingers / Till the clear song close." :)

"Calico pie, The little birds fly" - Edward Lear; Calico Pie... https://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/calico.html

[Danik 2016]

"Calico Pie..." Charming Children Poem and charming illustrations about the transience of creatures in ones life!

"DAUGHTER of Chaos’ doting years,"."Ode on the Departed Regency Bill" by Robert Burns
https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/poems-and-songs/257-ode-on-the-departed-regency-bill

[tailor STATELY]

Ah, the politics of Robbie Burns; a brief: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1069&context=ssl

"Early one day, the Muse, when eagerly bent on adornment," - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; The Muse's Mirror... pg. 276: https://livros01.livrosgratis.com.br/gu001287.pdf

Von Goethe's "personal muse": http://scihi.org/goethes-muse-charlotte-von-stein/

[Danik 2016]

Thanks on the links, taylor, however my sight is somewhat poor at present and the Adobe files didn´t open so well on my PC.
Enjoyed Goethe´s sardonic poem and the link on Madame von Stein. I once took the trouble to count the women in Goethe´s life. I counted about 15 and there were probably those literary history didn´t register. The friendship with von Stein was probably predominantly or maybe exclusively intellectual, maybe she was a sort of mentor of the young Goethe.

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

[tailor STATELY]

Delightful poem... "Morn glimmered like a pale primrose." :)

"Gentle Lily with this Album my warmest wishes take," - Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon; To A Young Girl With An Album... https://www.poetry.com/poem/33095/to-a-young-girl-with-an-album

[Danik 2016]

Very 19. Century. Ah, the albums!i myself had one, with lock.

"Hot, black and turbid;"." Haiku for the black coffee" by Peter Abbott
https://www.poetry.com/poem/132877/haiku-for-the-black-coffee

[tailor STATELY]

Mmmm... I remember the days of espresso, just so.

"I Saw a Peacock, with a fiery tail," - Anonymous (before 1665); I Saw a Peacock, with a fiery tail,... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw193.html

[Danik 2016]

I loved this apocalyptic poem! Such a pity that it is anonymous.

"Jesus came for all,"." Jesus Came For All" by Donka Kristeva
https://www.poetry.com/poems/J/20

[tailor STATELY]

:)

"kites of Edo" - Kobayashi Issa; kites of Edo... http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/3528/kites-of-edo.html

[Danik 2016]

The map appears for me, but not the poem. It seems that several poems of this atlas are under copyright protection.

"Just a changing sea of colour"."Rangoon" By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
http://eng-poetry.ru/english/Poem.php?PoemId=17394

[tailor STATELY]

kites of Edo / from morning on, heads / shaking, shaking

Enjoyed: "And a sun-burst-tinted throng / Of young priests that move along / Under sun-burst-hued umbrellas through the town." :)

"Keep a red heart of memories" - Carl Sandburg; Haze... https://www.poetry-archive.com/s/haze.html

[Danik 2016]

re: Issa-Charming poem, thanks!

"Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face,"."Lake Leman" -by George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/lake-leman-0

[tailor STATELY]

Fantastic poem by the great Lord Byron!: "Are not the mountain, waves, and skies, a part / Of me and of my soul, as I of them?"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron

"Mad Patsy said, he said to me," - James Stephens; In The Poppy Field... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/james-stephens/in-the-poppy-field-38123

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed immensely this cute poem!

Madeira (An excerpt of the Lusiads by Luís de Camões-Book 5)

"Named from her woods, with fragrant bowers adorn'd,
From fair Madeira's purple coast we turn'd:
Cyprus and Paphos' vales the smiling loves
Might leave with joy for fair Madeira's groves;

A shore so flowery, and so sweet an air,
Venus might build her dearest temple there.
Onward we pass Massilia's barren strand,
A waste of wither'd grass and burning sand;
Where his thin herds the meagre native leads,
Where not a rivulet laves the doleful meads;
Nor herds nor fruitage deck the woodland maze;
O'er the wild waste the stupid ostrich strays,
In devious search to pick her scanty meal,
Whose fierce digestion gnaws the temper'd steel.
From the green verge, where Tigitania ends,
To Ethiopia's line the dreary wild extends.
Now past the limit, which his course divides,
When to the north the sun's bright chariot rides,
We leave the winding bays and swarthy shores,
Where Senegal's black wave impetuous roars;
A flood, whose course a thousand tribes surveys,
The tribes who blacken'd in the fiery blaze,
When Phaeton, devious from the solar height,
Gave Afric's sons the sable hue of night.
And now from far the Libyan cape is seen,
Now by my mandate named the Cape of Green.[1]
Where midst the billows of the ocean smiles
A flowery sister-train, the happy isles,[2]
Our onward prows the murmuring surges lave;
And now our vessels plough the gentle wave,

Where the blue islands, named of Hesper old,
Their fruitful bosoms to the deep unfold.
Here changeful nature shows her various face,
And frolics o'er the slopes with wildest grace:
Here our bold fleet their ponderous anchors threw,
The sickly cherish, and our stores renew.
From him the warlike guardian power of Spain,
Whose spear's dread lightning o'er th' embattled plain
Has oft o'erwhelm'd the Moors in dire dismay,
And fixt the fortune of the doubtful day;
From him we name our station of repair,
And Jago's name that isle shall ever bear.
The northern winds now curl'd the blackening main,
Our sails unfurl'd we plough the tide again:
Round Afric's coast our winding course we steer,
Where bending to the east the shores appear.
Here Jalofo its wide extent displays,
And vast Mandinga shews its numerous bays;

Whose mountains' sides, though parch'd and barren, hold,
In copious store, the seeds of beamy gold.
The Gambia here his serpent journey takes,
And through the lawns a thousand windings makes;
A thousand swarthy tribes his current laves,
Ere mix his waters with th' Atlantic waves.
The Gorgades we past, that hated shore,
Famed for its terrors by the bards of yore;
Where but one eye by Phorcus' daughters shared,
The born beholders into marble stared;
Three dreadful sisters! down whose temples roll'd
Their hair of snakes in many a hissing fold,
And scattering horror o'er the dreary strand,
With swarms of vipers sow'd the burning sand.

Still to the south our pointed keels we guide,
And through the austral gulf still onward ride.
Her palmy forests mingling with the skies,
Leona's rugged steep behind us flies;
The Cape of Palms that jutting land we name,
Already conscious of our nation's fame.
Where the vext waves against our bulwarks roar,
And Lusian towers o'erlook the bending shore:
Our sails wide swelling to the constant blast,
Now by the isle from Thomas named we past;
And Congo's spacious realm before us rose,
Where copious Zayra's limpid billow flows;
A flood by ancient hero never seen,
Where many a temple o'er the banks of green,
Rear'd by the Lusian heroes, through the night
Of Pagan darkness, pours the mental light.

O'er the wild waves as southward thus we stray,
Our port unknown, unknown the watery way;

Each night we see, imprest with solemn awe,
Our guiding stars and native skies withdraw:
In the wide void we lose their cheering beams:
Lower and lower still the pole-star gleams,
Till past the limit, where the car of day
Roll'd o'er our heads, and pour'd the downward ray,
We now disprove the faith of ancient lore;
Bootes shining car appears no more:
For here we saw Calisto's star retire
Beneath the wave..."
https://sacred-texts.com/neu/lus/lusbk05.htm

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Enjoyed... I purchased an ebook of the Lusiads for my Kindle Fire and read it some time ago :)

"Oh, the days are growing longer;" - Marietta Holley; Spring Song Of The Swallow... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/spring-song-of-the-swallow/

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re Lusiads: Must be some years ago.I forgot completely,
Lovely poem! But the days are hot and long. Saw the snowstorms in USA on telly.

"Peace flows into me". "Peace" by Sara Teasdale
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/sara-teasdale/peace-1853

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8/23/2016 & 8/24/2016... http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?2379-name-association-game&p=1325714&viewfull=1#post1325714 :)

Love Sara's poem -"Give me your stars to hold." :)

"Quick to hear and heard to express," - Lawrence S. Pertillar; Quick To Express... https://www.poetry.com/poem/165562/quick-to-express

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re:2016-That was the year I litnetted,more than 7 years ago now.
Pertillar's poem seems to suggest a reflection about the education of village children.

"Read—Sweet—how others—strove—." "Read—Sweet—how others—strove—" by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poetry.com/poem/12062/read%E2%80%94sweet%E2%80%94how-others%E2%80%94strove

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A sweet history lesson :)

"'S cur'ous-like," said the tree-toad," - James Whitcomb Riley; The Tree-Toad... https://www.best-poems.net/james-whitcomb-riley/the-tree-toad.html

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Enjoyed this lol poem!

"The rain that fell a yesterday is ruby on the roses,"."Yesterday's Grief" by Katharine Lee Bates
https://www.litscape.com/author/Katharine_Lee_Bates/Yesterdays_Grief.html

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"Yet sorrow shall be beauty in the magic of the morn." :)

"Upon the mead a violet stood," - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; The Violet... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/violet-3

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Enjoyed Goethe at his most tragic. :)

"O VENICE! Venice! when thy marble walls". (Sorry for the "O"). "Ode on Venice" by Lord Byron.
https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/poems-of-places-an-anthology-in-31-volumes/ode-on-venice/

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Good choice... my next assignment is an Ode.

"and thus they creep, / Crouching and crab-like, through their sapping streets." Enjoyed :)

"When I looked back" - Deepak Kumar Pattanayak; A Man Recalled... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-man-recalled/

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re Ode: :).
re A man recalled:"And now he is no more

Leaving behind a legacy of work
As worship for all to think over……… ", yea!

"IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan"."Xanadu" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/poems-of-places-an-anthology-in-31-volumes/xanadu

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Enjoyed :)

I found an analysis of Xanadu that proves my poetic interpretations to be quite inept... https://study.com/learn/lesson/kubla-khan-coleridge-poem-analysis.html#:~:text=The%20speaker%20begins%20the %20poem,metaphor%20for%20creativity%20and%20imagin ation.

"You wanted to link but I had reservations," - Ashley Young; Queen Bee... https://www.poetry.com/poem/126536/queen-bee

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re "Xanadu:These poems often can have several interpretations, I think.It is about creativity but I think pleasure plays also a great role in it.
Enjoyed that love explosion.
Poem with title starting with "z":
"Come, thou awakener of the spirit's ocean,"."Zephyrus the Awakaner"by Shelley
https://www.poetry.com/poem/29344/zephyrus-the-awakener

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Enjoyed this tiny poem :)

"At the silence of twilight's contemplative hour," - Thomas Campbell; Lines - Written On Visiting A Scene In Argyleshire... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/thomas-campbell/lines-written-on-visiting-a-scene-in-argyleshire-7030

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Lovely poem, but mused on USA's near future (elections) when I read it

"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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Oy, don't remind me :( Lol, most appropriate: "Baby must have relaxation, / Let the world go wrong or right."

"Can we suppress the old Remorse" - Charles Baudelaire; The Irreparable... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-baudelaire/the-irreparable-can-we-suppress-the-old-remorse

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Baudelaire at his most bitter!

"Deliver us from evil, Heavenly Father!"."Deliver Us From Evil" by George Pope Morris
https://www.poetrycat.com/george-pope-morris/deliver-us-from-evil

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Wonderful prayer poem :)

"Even now I seem to see thee," - Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow; Acrostic... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/mary-ann-h-t-bigelow/acrostic-34989

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Sad, sad, sad!

"Faintly as tolls the evening chime"."A Canadian Boat Song" by Thomas Moore
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/thomas-moore/a-canadian-boat-song-26741

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"and the song encourages the sailor" :)

"Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born;" - Hilaire Belloc;
Godolphin Horne, Who was Cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46691/godolphin-horne-who-was-cursed-with-the-sin-of-pride-and-became-a-boot-black

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Lol! " So now Godolphin is the Boy/ Who blacks the Boots at the Savoy."

"Had I but lived a hundred years ago"."At Lulworth Cove a Century Back". by Thomas Hardy
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47265/at-lulworth-cove-a-century-back

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Enjoyed :) - found this as an explanation... https://victorianweb.org/authors/hardy/pva217.html

"I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root:" - Sylvia Plath; Elm... https://goldenbridgeinmate39.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/elm-by-sylvia-plath-2/

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Thanks!Loved the interpretation as I didn´t know anything about the Hardy-Keats connection.

"Elm" wonderful and, at the same time, terrible imagery

"January brings"."Cairo" by williamfdevault
https://www.deviantart.com/williamfdevault/art/Cairo-195447531

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Haiku :) ... "and so it begins" (totally unrelated song) https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q="and+so+it+begins"&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:cb365df7,vid:uuArjW5SNPc,st:0

kept as pets by Kobayashi Issa

kept as pets
by citizens of Edo...
fireflies

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Help! My neurons must have been eaten up by some AI. Didn´t make anything of the above.
Enjoyed Kobayashi Issa's haiku though!

"Lagos; A Lovely City"."Lagos" by Abisoye Sejoro
https://www.instagram.com/dayo_adedayo/p/CHJ2RbFHtYq/

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Lagos; A Lovely City"."Lagos" by Abisoye Sejoro
https://www.instagram.com/dayo_adedayo/p/CHJ2RbFHtYq/ (Instagram link didn´t work)

Lagos; A Lovely City
City of warmth
City of Joy
City of strong expression
City full of free minds
City of people that are ready to improvise

Lagos; the heart beat of its nation: Nigeria
The center of excellence
The state of commerce.
A state strong like its nation
Great like its continent: Africa
A state occupied by people full of love
kindness and strength
People of great smiles and great heart

Great Lagos
Great Nigeria
Great Africa

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Oops, sorry... should have been a song video :(

Links worked for me... Enjoyed Lagos :)

"My friend must be a bird," - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson; Who?... https://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.com/2011/08/f-71-1859.html

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Nice music video, but it seemed to awake memories in several of the listeners.

Another of ED riddle poems. Interesting analysis pointing at a sister-in-law. "It doesn’t seem like a healthy friendship when one friend is perceived as stinging the other and the stung one then writes immortal poetry about it. Take it as a warning when having a writer as a friend!:"https://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.com/2011/08/f-71-1859.html. Lol!

"Make me a heaven, and make me there"."The Eye" by Robert Herrick
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/robert-herrick/eye-18683

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIGsjkUf0Go&t=101s

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"Ah! what is then this curious sky / But only my Corinna's eye?" Enjoyed :)
A lengthy bio: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-herrick

Enjoyed the upbeat video :)

"Never have I been glad or sad" - Robert Frost; Quandary... https://www.poetry.com/poem/30894/quandary

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"But ' twas by making sweetbreads do
I passed with such a high I.Q" Lol!

"O a song for Joyce's Country, where the grim wild mountains be,"."A Song for Joyce's Country" by Clinton Scollard

http://www.blackcatpoems.com/s/a_song_for_joyces_country.html or poetry Atlas wcich doesn´t appear for me

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Enjoyed the bleakness of the poem :) I might have left out the "O a song for Joyce's Country" out of every stanza and let the title stand on its own.

Long poem...

"Paul Jannes was working very late," - Amy Lowell; The Shadow... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/amy_lowell/poems/20019

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I agree with you, it sounds a bit cursy. You have a very good feeling for poetry..
Paul Lannes-fascinating poem,finishing it tomorrow on account of my eyes.

"Queen—bird, that sittest on thy shining nest"On the sight of Swans in Kensington Garden Charles Lamb
https://www.poeticous.com/charles-lamb/on-the-sight-of-swans-in-kensington-gardens

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Wonderful poem :)

"Red slippers in a shop-window, and outside in the" - Amy Lowell; Red Slippers... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/amy_lowell/poems/20008

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Enjoyed the "Red Slippers" and specially the lenght of the poem.

Rio Sacramento
Bayard Taylor
Sacramento! Sacramento

Full Poem in Copyright
The Sacramento River runs south through California for 400 miles from the Klamath Mountains and flows out into San Francisco Bay.

http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/1856/rio-sacramento.html I couldn´t read the poem above for copyright reasons but I think you can.

Anyway here is another "s" poem in case it doesn´t work.


"she died of alcoholism". "Carson McCullers" by Charles Bukovsky
https://allpoetry.com/Carson-McCullers

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Enjoyed both poems; both with twisting ends :)

"The art of losing isn’t hard to master" - Elizabeth Bishop; One Art... https://poets.org/poem/one-art

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Taylor, could you please paste "Sacramento, Sacramento"on the page if the poem is not to long?All these Poetry Atlas poems are invisible to me if not published somewhere else

"Lose something every day".No need to tell me. Enjoyed that vilanelle.?

"Under my window-ledge the waters race,".Coole Park And Ballylee, 1931 by William Butler Yeats
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/william_butler_yeats/poems/10372

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Rio Sacramento

Bayard Taylor

Sacramento! Sacramento,
Down the rough Nevada foaming,
Fain my heart would join thy water
In its glad, impestuous roaming,
For thy valley's fairest daughter
Watches oft to see thee coming!

Sacramento! Sacramento!
From the shining threads that wove thee,
From the mountain woods that darken
All the mountain heaven above thee,
Teach her ear thy song to hearken,
And, for what it says, to love thee!

Sacramento! Sacramento!
Lead me downward to the glory
Of thy green and flowery meadows;
I will leave the deserts hoary,
For thy grove of quiet shadows
And my love's impassioned story.

Sacramento! Sacramento!
Every dancing rainbow broken
When thy falling waves are shattered,
Is a glad and beckoning token
Of the hopes so warmly scattered
And the vows that we have spoken!

Sacramento! Sacramento!
She, beside thee, waits my coming;
Teach my step thy bounding fleetness,
Towards the bower of beauty roaming,
Where she stands, in maiden sweetness.
Gazing idly on thy foaming!... http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/1856/rio-sacramento.html

Yeats: Impressive poem.

I did get lost at:
Another emblem there! That stormy white
But seems a concentration of the sky;
And, like the soul, it sails into the sight
And in the morning's gone, no man knows why;
And is so lovely that it sets to right
What knowledge or its lack had set awry,
So atrogantly pure, a child might think
It can be murdered with a spot of ink.

"Very soon the Yankee teachers" - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; Learning to Read... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/learning-to-read/

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Thanks for the Sacramento poem, taylor.

re2: Puzzled also about that 3rd stanza of Yeats poem: found this analysis that explains the poem stanza by stanza and so troves some light on the third one.
On the whole the pure arrogant white , whatever is meant by it is so fragile that even a child could destroy it.There seems to be a nostalgic feeling about a romantic time, that determines and combines the atmosphere of place, feelings of the lyric I and the poem itself.

Loved "Learning to Read... ":" Knowledge did’nt agree with slavery— ’Twould make us all too wise." Very, very familiar!

'When love has changed to kindliness --'."Kindliness" by Rupert Brooke
https://www.rupertbrooke.com/poems/1908-1911/kindliness/

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Ah... Thanx... my quick perusal came up empty.

re: Learning to Read... agree.

sigh...

"X is for x-ray of my bones." - (can't find an attribution); My X Poem... pg.26: https://www.cpsk12.org/cms/lib/MO01909752/Centricity/Domain/8063/LetterPoemswithFundationsLines.pdf

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Charming "cartilha" (book where children learn to write), thanks tailor! Had to discover though, how to download it.

"Yes. I remember Adlestrop—"."Adlestrop" by Edward Thomas
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/adlestrop/

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Enjoyed :) Another poet whose life cut short by war :(

"Zeke Snirer." - Michael Shepherd; Zeke Snirer, poetry critic... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460347

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re: Sad!

"Zeke Snirer"-lol! A legit "Z" poem.

"As I walked out one evening,"."As I walked out one evening," by W. H. Auden
https://poets.org/poem/i-walked-out-one-evening

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Some interesting imagery: "‘The glacier knocks in the cupboard, / The desert sighs in the bed, / And the crack in the tea-cup opens / A lane to the land of the dead." Enjoyed ! I haven't read much of Auden's poetry, but that can be remedied easily :)

"Bees in the manger" - Mary Mapes Dodge; Bees In The Manger... https://www.litscape.com/author/Mary_Mapes_Dodge/Bees_In_The_Manger.html

Waiting for the power to go out...

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I haven't either but like Audens strong images.
Enjoyed the poem


Here another one by the same poet:

"Come, ho! sing, ho! ye chimney sprites,"."A Song Of Saint Nicholas" by Mary Dodge.

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"So it holds one little child, -- / Every spot, he knows by heart; / What if half the world apart?" :)

"Distrust this season breeds" - Wendy Xu; The Forecast... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-forecast/

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Wonderful images: "Distrust this season breeds/in me whole/blue worlds, "

"Even the sky here in Connecticut has it,"A Winter Without Snow J. D. McClatchy
https://poets.org/poem/winter-without-snow

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Quite a travel from being spared by snow... enjoyed :)

"Flames of floods" - Mogare Nyamoko; Wave Rider... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wave-rider/

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"Wave Rider.." Is daily hapening here in storm times.

"G o on your way, my youthful friend,"To Master George Twiddy by Thomas Frederick Young
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/thomas-frederick-young/to-master-george-twiddy-34583

(Sorry, still going very slow. Eyes sometimes better, sometimes worse.

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Enjoyed the acrostic.

Pray your eyes get better.

"He has come and he has gone," - Nora Pembroke; Separation.
... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/separation

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Thanks!

(Ai!!When i read Nora Penbroke I know that the poem is going to be tough)

"I’m not yet comfortable with the word,"."Wife" by Ada Limón
https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/all-poems/item/poetry-180-020/wife/

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Ada hitting hard... well done :)

"Jade —" - Sylvia Plath; Purdah... https://allpoetry.com/Purdah

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Thank you for your consideration :) (going slowly).

"Purdah" Again, very strong, original and surprising images!

"Keen fitful gusts are whispering here and there". "Keen Fitful Gusts Are Whispering Here And There" by John Keats
https://www.litscape.com/author/John_Keats/Keen_Fitful_Gusts_Are_Whispering_Here_And_There.ht ml

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Sounds like Keats is hunkering down with a book or two :)

"Laura! a sunrise seems to break" - Friedrich Schiller; Melancholy To Laura... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/friedrich-schiller/melancholy-to-laura-30706

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Schiller at his most dramatic. Not even Petrarca can surpass him!

"My love loves hooded mergansers, absurd"."The Last Lophodytes" by Eileen G'sell
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/161725/the-last-lophodytes

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Schiller and Petrarca... a tale of two Lauras :)

A very intimate poem by Eileen.

"None of this had to happen." - Jane Hirshfield; Day Beginning with Seeing the International Space Station and a Full Moon Over the Gulf of Mexico and All Its Invisible Fishes... https://poets.org/poem/day-beginning-seeing-international-space-station-and-full-moon-over-gulf-mexico-and-all-its

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Enjoyed the unexpected images by Jane Hirschfield


"Origami-folded toads".Arroyo Seco by Harryette Mullen
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160868/arroyo-seco-64cc3cf5c102f

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Enjoyed... wonderful first line :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arroyo_Seco_(Los_Angeles_County)

"Philia is the greek word for the love friends have for each other" - Charles Exton; John 15: 13... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/john-15-13/

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Thanks on the interesting information on Arroyo Seco

Enjoyed the poem about friendship :)

"Quite a lady of". "Queen Elizabeth II" by Okafor Chukwuebuka Romanus Michael (Chiro)
https://www.poetry.com/poem/143449/queen-elizabeth-ii

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Wonderful homage poem... enjoyed :)

"Roughly figured, this man of moderate habits," - Howard Nemerov; Life Cycle of Common Man... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/life-cycle-of-common-man/

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"Life Cycle of Common Man..."-Very interesting! Enjoyed!

"Said a great..."."Rewards" by Unknown
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/unknown/rewards-32207

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An lol limerick :)

On further review a bit more insight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ward_Beecher

"There was a little turtle - Vachel Lindsay; The Little Turtle... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-little-turtle/

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Henry Ward Beecher-Inresting life and abolitionist activism, thanks for the link, tailor. Now I know why the name Beecher sounded familiar to me: Harriet Beecher Stove.

The Little Turtle- Cute poemveve .
A curiosity:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Turtle

"Under the snow in the dark and the cold,"."The Tendril's Faith" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
https://www.litscape.com/author/Ella_Wheeler_Wilcox/The_Tendrils_Faith.html

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Little Turtle: Interesting life, he even met with my distant cousin John Adams :)

Delightful poem of faith :)

"Virgin, sappy, gorgeous, the right-now" - George Starbuck; Sign... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/sign/

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A bit bewildered by these forceful theatricals but enjoyed. No analysis but some information about Starbuck: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/george-starbuck

"Was, Is, and Yet-to-Be"."Was, Is, And Yet-To-Be" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
https://www.litscape.com/author/Ella_Wheeler_Wilcox/Was_Is_And_Yet_To_Be.html

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re: Starbuck - interesting collection.

Enjoyed :)

"X was King Xerxes," - Edward Lear; [i]A Nonsense Alphabet... https://kathywaller1.com/2019/04/26/x-is-for-xerxes-atozchallenge/

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More than the "X poem" I enjoyed the blog itself and tha ability of Ms. Walker about Edward Lear´s used children book. I hope Amazon rewards her.

"Your lungs fill & spread themselves,"."Flying Inside Your Own Body" by Margaret Atwood
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/02/02/flying-inside-your-own-body-by-margaret-atwood/

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Enjoyed Margaret's poem :) Not that one needs an analysis for this poem, but here is one... https://poemanalysis.com/margaret-atwood/flying-inside-your-own-body/

"Zhang rose from his..." - Hope Hills; Zhang... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=585107

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re: Interesting analysis though not very thorough.

Zhang-a ponderous Z poem.


"A LITTLE fir grew in the midst of the wood". Henry Van Dyke (1852-193 "THE FOOLISH FIR-TREE"
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw212.html

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Lol, the little fir tree in a dream state of vanity wakes and becomes content with itself only to be harvested as a Christmas tree.

"Beneath a laurel, two fair streams between," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet CLVII. Una candida cerva sopra l' erba. / The Vision of the Fawn.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/sonnet-clvii

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re fir tree: Didn´t notice that, but agree totally with you. I think that either virtue sometimes brings curious rewards or the poet, in this case is of the opinion that been used as a Christmas tree is a honor and a reward in itself.

"The Vision of the Fawn...". Petrarca at his cutest!:). Was however a bit bewildered by the difference between both translations. I was a bit shocked, when, in the first rendition, the poet suddenly falls into the water. Sort of comic twist at the end. But in the second he merely awakes to reality.

"Composed in a shine of laughing, Monique brings in sacks"."Between" by Marie Ponsot
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2007/05/21/between-by-marie-ponsot/ ( second poem)

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re: Petrarca... agree with the vast difference, I prefer the second :)

Enjoyed the poem and the blogette :) Author is in the Philippines I surmise (see 'Makati' in 2.)

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

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re:Me too!

"Each eve earth"."The Day Of Days." by William Morris
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-morris/day-of-days-27588

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Wictionary: "day of days (plural days of days): (idiomatic)" 1. "A particularly noteworthy day; the day on which a milestone or especially memorable event occurs." 2. "(Christianity, sometimes capitalized) Sunday, especially Easter Sunday." :)

"filaments of her gift" - Anne Waldman; Continuum... https://poets.org/poem/continuum

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reContinuum:7-Enjoyed the modernity of the poem.

"Giving up three for one!-" "Three For Three."by Pamela S. Vining, (J. C. Yule)
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/pamela-s-vining/three-for-three-34467

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Sweet poem :)

"Here is the grackle, people." - George Starbuck; Fable for Blackboard... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47045/fable-for-blackboard

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Cute story in verses!
"Incoherent swirls in amber clouds,".Jupiter-Saturn-Uranus by Richt 26
https://allpoetry.com/poem/16554180-Jupiter-Saturn-Uranus-by-Richt 26

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Interesting imagery with enough ambiguity to want to read again... no Neptune though ? :)

"Jenny kissed me when we met," - Leigh Hunt; Rondeau... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/rondeau/

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Enjoyed this lovely rondeau!

"Kind friend, you do not know how much","The Little Clock." by Hattie Howard
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/hattie-howard/torpedo-20800

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Found your poem here... https://mail.poetry-site.com/hattie-howard/little-clock-20864
... the other was a bit disheartening :(

Enjoyed "The Little Clock"'s somewhat tongue in cheekiness :)

"Letters swallow themselves in seconds." - Naomi Shihab Nye; Burning the Old Year... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/burning-the-old-year/

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Sure. Im on tablet just now. PC is at the hospital to get a new HD.

"Marice stood beneath"."Within the Orchid" by Oliver VanBrackle Montes,
https://allpoetry.com/poem/16988044-Within-the-Orchid-by-O.V.M.

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Wonderful poem.... breaks my heart...

"No doubt to-morrow I will hide" - Vachel Lindsay; At Mass Poem... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/at-mass/

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At Mass-so intense, loved it!

"One granite ridge"."Piute Creek"by Gary Snyder
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/piute-creek/

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Wonderful poem!: "All the junk that goes with being human / Drops away" :)

"Poor foolish monarch, vacillating, vain," - Amy Lowell; Francis II, King of Naples... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/amy_lowell/poems/20098

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Loved this poems, seems Francis had a serene fate. Digressing a bit:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Garibaldi

Q for kids
Sorry, that was all I found on tablet. Maybe it works for your grand grand:
http://www.kidsunder7.com/2011/10/letter-q-worksheets.html

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Anita Garibaldi... interesting connection and larger than life :)

"Q is for Questions: How are you?" :)

"Reading in the paper a summary" - Michael Ryan; Larkinesque... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/larkinesque/

[Danik 2016]

Larkineske-interesting treaty on the effect of beauty and the lack of it.

"Some women make a pilgrimage to visit it"."Self-Portrait with Sylvia Plath’s Braid" by Diane Seuss

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Good choice, enjoyed, was also in my queue for an "s" poem... https://poets.org/poem/self-portrait-sylvia-plaths-braid

"There is nothing to be afraid of," - Margaret Atwood; Night Poem... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/margaret_atwood/poems/319

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re:"Self-Portrait with Sylvia Plath’s Braid"-I hope there was no repettion!

Enjoyed this Night Poem.

"UP goes the price of our bread--"Ballade of the Traffickers" by FRANKLIN P. ADAMS
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/books/adams/something04.html#69

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re: Sylvia... no, no I hadn't got that far in my queue.

lol... the poem reads as if from Tom Bombadil ! and is as relevant today as then :(

"Very true, the linnets sing" - Walter Savage Landor; Very True, The Linnets Sing ... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/walter-savage-landor/very-true-the-linnets-sing-2789

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"Very True, The Linnets Sing ..."Somehow about fate, like this one.
re: Don´t think we had Tom Bombadil.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bombadil (I see.)
"We come at the wrong time of year by a hair". "Radium Dream" by Sheila Black
https://poets.org/poem/radium-dream

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Enjoyed the wiki on Tom :)

Bitter sweet poem: cranes, radium, a son's malady: "I / have radium dreams—a brightness: Him, me, / you, the / cranes, and in them nothing dies."... Hope :)

"X is for x-ray of my bones." - (can't find an attribution); My X Poem... pg.26: https://www.cpsk12.org/cms/lib/MO01909752/Centricity/Domain/8063/LetterPoemswithFundationsLines.pdf

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Enjoyed this book of illustrated alphabet letters poems for kids that are learning to read. :)

"Ye children of..."."Song of the Fates." (Iphigenia in Tauris-ACT IV. SCENE 5.) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/from-iphigenia-in-tauris-16822

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Enjoyed the poem, especially this verses: "When rises contention, / The guests are humid downwards / With shame and dishonor / To deep depths of midnight, / And vainly await they, / Bound fast in the darkness, / A just condemnation." :)

"Zamponi, in, map, an, am, pin, main, man," - Edward Kofi Louis; Zamponi... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=380977

[Danik 2016]

Zamponi - liked the play with words

"A queer thing about those waters: there are no"."Across the Bay" by Donald Davie
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/across-the-bay/

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Enjoyed :) Found this... https://prezi.com/zxhigs-oghkr/across-the-bay/

"Bearded creature in the Rearview of the whip" - Yahya Hassan; Ramadan... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/159633/ramadan-63d98c8027ebd

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Thanks for the link on "Across the Bay". Own you this link on Goethe's Iphigenia post # 1406:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphigenia_in_Tauris_(Goethe).

Enjoyed the poem by Yahia Hassan, its ambiguities and this note"

"Prose from Poetry Magazine
On Translating Yahya Hassan
By Jordan Barger

Yahya Hassan, YAHYA HASSAN, oh, what to say of a best-selling poet who dies at twenty-four? A poet whose popularity exceeded 120,000 copies (and still counting, three years after his death) of YAHYA HASSAN 1, the book from which these translations come.

While these poems still loom large, we no longer have the constant buzz that kept Hassan in the Danish news. As a public figure, he was outspoken and critical of both the Danish welfare system and his Islamic background. As a result of this, he was under constant pressure from across the political spectrum: he was assaulted in the street, sparked free-speech debates in parliament, and readings were canceled because of death threats that Hassan received.

Translating Hassan is living in ALL CAPS, juggling ambiguities and managing intense directness. The three poems here, “ANTENNA,” “THE
BAG OF SKUNK AND THE GHETTO BANK,” and “RAMADAN,” show various angles of Hassan’s identity and his frustration with them. “RAMADAN” is a translation that is especially close to my heart. Wrangling this poem into English took every effort of a star-studded translation workshop, led by Katrine Øgaard Jensen along with Jessica Kirzane, Timea Sipos, Stine An, and Alex Karsavin.

A first poignant moment in the workshop was when Katrine gently pointed out my odd interpretation of the closing line in the first draft. What was once “AND THEN A JEWELER LATCHES ONTO YOUR ARM” had to be transformed to what is now “NOW A DRAGONFLY LANDS ON YOUR ARM.” Guldsmed means both dragonfly and goldsmith in Danish, and latches was just plain poetic license. The second challenge was in the opening line: “ROVPELS I FJÆSET I EN DYR BILS BAKSPEJL.” Any reader of Danish will recognize the difficulty here: there’s a ton of texture in this line; a scaffolded version would be something like, “ROBBER’S/PREDATORY PELT ON A FACE IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR OF THE EXPENSIVE/BEASTLY CAR.” In an overturning of our workshop leader’s suggestion, the group offered “BEARDED CREATURE IN THE REARVIEW OF THE WHIP” to maintain the tightness of the original as well as the image of a young, moneyed immigrant driving a fancy car.

The other two poems here offer a different challenge: drastic line breaks across an extended narrative. The first step in translating Hassan is leveraging these deliberate ambiguities while maintaining typographical clarity. Hassan wants to whip his reader around and shock them, but is never sloppy about it. This is common with other Danish writers like Rudolf Broby-Johansen, Michael Strunge, and Tine Høeg. While he may share similarities with a few others, we may never see another poet like Yahya Hassan.
Editor's Note:

Read the poems and translations this note is about, “PARABOL,” “ANTENNA,” “SKUNKPOSEN OG GHETTOBANKEN,” “THE BAG OF SKUNK AND THE GHETTO BANK,” “RAMADAN,” and “RAMADAN.”

Jordan Barger is a translator from French, Norwegian, and Danish. He is currently pursuing an MFA in literary translation at the University of Iowa."


"Cruising these residential Sunday".'The City Planners' by Margaret Atwood
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/margaret_atwood/poems/359

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Thank you for the wiki... I've loved the Greek mythos since a teen and Goethe has a deft hand in composition :)

Yahya Hassan: a tragic poet: https://lithub.com/celebrating-yahya-hassan-poet-rebel/

Atwood: a dense poem rich in imagery: "a splash of paint on brick surprising as a bruise,"... https://poetryprof.com/the-city-planners/

"Don’t let anyone hurt you," - Uriah Hamilton; Zeus Or Achilles... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=532636

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Yahya Hassan- thanks for this emphatic article. So sad that he died so young!

Thanks for the equally inspired article on the "City Planers"!

"Zeus Or Achilles...". Sound advices.

"Each day I see the long ships coming into port"

"Each day I see the long ships coming into port

Each day I see the long ships coming into port
and the people crowding to their rail, glad of the shore:
because to have been alone with the sea and not to have known
of anything happening in any crowded way,
and to have heard no other voice than the crooning sea's
has charmed away the old rancours, and the great winds
have search'd and swept their hearts of the old irksome thoughts:
so, to their freshen'd gaze, each land smiles a good home.
Why envy I, seeing them made gay to greet the shore?
Surely I do not foolishly desire to go
hither and thither upon the earth and grow weary
with seeing many lands and peoples and the sea:
but if I might, some day, landing I reck not where
have heart to find a welcome and perchance a rest,
I would spread the sail to any wandering wind of the air
this night, when waves are hard and rain blots out the land."

poem by Christopher John Brennan
Added by Poetry Lover
http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?p=3&a=Christopher+John+Brennan

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Wonderful poem :)

"Friends, I will not cease hoping though you weep." - Vachel Lindsay; Follow Friends, I Will Not Cease... https://allpoetry.com/poem/14328820-Friends--I-Will-Not-Cease-by-Vachel-Lindsay

[Danik 2016]

Vachel's poem somehow reminded me of the pre elections.

"God sent his Singers upon earth"."The Singers" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
https://www.litscape.com/author/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow/The_Singers.html

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lol... pre elections

From S7 -
"These are the three great chords of might, / And he whose ear is tuned aright / Will hear no discord in the three, / But the most perfect harmony."... wonderful poem. Now that I'm singing in the choir again I can greater appreciate this stanza... Enjoyed ! :)

"He wakes up when the sun is highest," - Yashraj Vishwakarma; Quintessential 21st Century Teenager... https://www.poetry.com/poem/102980/quintessential-21st-century-teenager

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Quintessential 21st Century Teenager... Very true... alas.

"I patted a cat this morning"."The Little Moments" by Patricia Swan
https://allpoetry.com/

The Little Moments
I patted a cat this morning.
I'm allergic to cats
but for a moment nothing crossed my mind
but for the peaceful sensation
of touch and feeling
Take a break. Throw a snowball. Plant a flower
turn a beetle on to its legs again
Tiny things
Important things

There is no shame in letting go
breathe deeply and pick that apple
that is beyond your reach

When I was a child I found colored glass and seashells
where the ocean met the shore
the sun reflected salty greens and blues
on to the pale sand

In the evening a crescent moon will rise
above the hemlocks
in a few days it will show off
its beautiful smile. I think then I will take
my evening walk, for the path forward is built
with hundreds of little pebbles

© Feb 2, Patricia Swan

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Absolutely brilliant poem ! Loved our crescent moon last night... and I'm allergic to cats but couldn't be without them... and the sea shore :)... oh, the tiny things !!! :)

"Just look, tis quarter past six, love " - Mary Weston Fordham; The Coming Woman
... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-coming-woman/

[Danik 2016]

Lol! Enjoyed this inversion of roles!

"Keep out of the Past! for its highways""Keep Out Of The Past" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
https://www.litscape.com/author/Ella_Wheeler_Wilcox/Keep_Out_Of_The_Past.html

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Great advice :)

"Look here's that uninvited" - Vasko Popa; Far Within Us #2... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22610

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Wondeful poem, interesting form (a head, maybe?)

"Mommy always wanted". "Her Dreams" by Nikki Giovanni
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/her-dreams/

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Enjoyed... Mom trying to groom her daughters for fame unsuccessfully ?

"Now you hear what the house has to say." - Dana Gioia; Insomnia... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/insomnia-2/

[Danik 2016]

Very original take, letting the repair needed objects of the house speak.

"Often rebuked, yet always back returning".[‘Often rebuked, yet always back returning’] by Emily Brontë
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/often-rebuked-yet-always-back-returning/

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Wonderful poem by Emily B.: "What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?" (the Hobbits know) :)

"People who have no children can be hard:" - Gwendolyn Brooks; The Children of the Poor... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-children-of-the-poor/

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"The Children of the Poor". Wonderful-poem What a rich and subtle use of language:
"My hand is stuffed with mode, design, device.
But I lack access to my proper stone.
And plenitude of plan shall not suffice
Nor grief nor love shall be enough alone
To ratify my little halves who bear
Across an autumn freezing everywhere."

"QUEEN of every moving measure," "Ode to Music" by Joseph Warton
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/warton02.html#3

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"And, with some softly whisper'd air, / Smooth the brow of dumb despair." :)

"Rest before you sleep You ll be walking for hours" - Dionisio D. Martinez; Rest before you sleep... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/rest-before-you-sleep/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed this original poem:
"Wake up stop
while you still know where you are Put away
your elusive country Give your sleep a rest"

"Sleep slides sudden,slower."."Sleep" by Pikaville
https://smashboards.com/threads/my-poem-using-only-words-beginning-with-s.174015/

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Sibilant :)

"The neighbour sits in his window and plays the flute." - Amy Lowell; Music... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/amy_lowell/poems/19973

[Danik 2016]

Charming poem contrasting the magic of music with the commonplace musician. :)

"UP the airy mountain,". "The Fairies" by William Allingham (1824-1889)
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw98.html

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Delightful poem of the little folk, :)
... but poor little Bridget :(

1. "Vast oceanic movements, the flux and reflux of immeasurable tides, oversweep our continent." - Emma Lazarus; Currents. (Little Poems In Prose.)... https://verse.press/poem/currents-little-poems-in-prose-5904

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Loved this poem at this present time of radicalization!
"4. Hark to the cry of the exiles of Babylon, the voice of Rachel mourning for her children, of Israel lamenting for Zion.

5. And lo, like a turbid stream, the long-pent flood bursts the dykes of oppression and rushes hitherward."

"Walking through a cathedral of oak trees"."What Would Root" by Katie Farris.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/151495/what-would-root

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Incredible poem ! Enjoyed very much :)

"X-play is arranged by coach." - DJones; Xfl... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=584360

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Recuperated the poem through Google. When trying to open it on citatepedia the strangest message appears: "This domain is parked".

"Ye lofty walls and towers, exalted hold" "Praise of Cordova" by Luis de Góngora
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/1982/praise-of-cordova.html

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"Parked"... lol. Wonder what that means ? Here: https://www.onlydomains.com/blog/what-is-a-parked-domain/ yeah, clear as mud, lol. Odd it works for me though.

16th/17th century homage to Cordoba, Spain... enjoyed :)

"Zannat* here, hell here, life here" - Hasmukh Amathalal; Zannat...heaven... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=406939

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Thanks for the useful link, tailor. "Parked domain seems to be an internet page rented and reserved for future. It hosts adds though.
Seems as regards Brazil all citatepedia has been parked . Couldn´t recuperate "Zannat".

"At night, when the sea cradles me"."At Night On The High Seas" by Hermann Hesse
https://www.poetrycat.com/hermann-hesse/at-night-on-the-high-seas

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Zannat...heaven

Zannat* here, hell here, life here
With joy and happiness to be spent dear
Why to cry and resent for bad luck?
Why to lament and curse when simply struck?

My zannat* is at home
Stands at door and welcome
Ushers me inside and offers comfort
I have reached the bay with her support

She is not only beautiful
But kind at heart and successful
In her work she is really wonderful
With out I could have been zero or half full

I speak nothing in her praise
But gracefully acknowledge on face
"I would have been no where dear"
I live with happiness without any fear

When you are around
Joy and happiness is found
Moon and stars may shine in their place
I have nothing look at you and chase

My universe is here
I do nothing which may cause her to shed tear
Yet sometimes I loose sight of vision
That leads to some bitterness and confusion

I have no regret being ordinary man
She is no less than heavenly woman
What has she gained from me as her man?
I think and probably no answer she can

It will be too much if I say some more words
But it will be ungrateful of me if my words are not heard
I may not say plainly on her face acknowledge
She is always there in my sacred heart temple as inscribed page

She has never uttered a word in desperation
Maintained all time calm with beautiful relation
All women are same with gifted heart
Only we need to develop vision and see it as heavenly art

* Zannat…. heaven

Wonderful poem by Hesse... https://poemanalysis.com/hermann-hesse/at-night-on-the-high-seas/

"Because we did not have threads" - Shara McCallum; The Art Room... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-art-room/

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for posting the domainless poem, and such a tender poem!
Enjoyed also The Art Room very much.

"Crashing"."Cadillac Moon" by Kevin Young
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/cadillac-moon/

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Interesting poem... this helped for some understanding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat

"Did you sneeze?" - Gary Soto; Self-Inquiry before the Job Interview... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/self-inquiry-before-the-job-interview/

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the link on Basquiat, fascinating artist. A pity he died so young. Here is the film, Downtown 81 ( 1h 10 min):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz1CXm7PbtU&t=5s

Enjoyed very much Gary Soto´s original poem 9n the unusual theme of a job interview

"EARL JOYCE he was a kind old party"."Little Oliver" by William Schwenck Gilbert
https://allpoetry.com/Little-Oliver

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Looking forward to watching Downtown 81 in the near future :)

Bittersweet unrequited love poem... enjoyed the poem and its analysis :)

"From many morning-glories"" - Vachel Lindsay; How the Wings Were Made... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-tree-of-laughing-bells/

[Danik 2016]

:)

Vachel Lindsay; How the Wings Were Made.Wonderful poem. Didn´t find a satisfactory analysis so venturing some thoughts on this fantastic poem:
There is a relationship from Indian Culture (seen as the first and primordial) to Western Culture.
Western Region neighbor to Chaos-Region
Red Bells=Christian Religion?

"Glory be to God for dappled things—". "Pied Beauty"-Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw162.html

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Vachel Lindsay - I couldn't find any either beyond his Wikipedia article and Poetry Foundation bio https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/vachel-lindsay .

Enjoyed :) Found this analysis: https://poemanalysis.com/gerard-manley-hopkins/pied-beauty/

"humans think" - John Tiong Chunghoo; Zen Creatures... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/zen-creatures/

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re:Enjoyed the analysis. I think the poem exalts what we today call diversity.

Zen Creatures-Charming poem about trees and humans.

"I hate my verses, every line, every word."."Love The Wild Swan" by Robinson Jeffers
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/robinson_jeffers/poems/17105

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Thoughtful poem: "Does it matter whether you hate your . . . self?" Enjoyed very much :)
Robinson Jeffers Bio: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robinson-jeffers I'll have to read up on his eco-poetry, he knew the central California coast well.

"Jemima is my name," - Walter De La Mare; Mima... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/walter-de-la-mare/mima-33378

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re: Enjoyed Jeffers bio, specially the " philosophy of inhumanism".
"Mima". A not so good relationship between sisters.

"THE kettle descants in a cosy drone,"." At Tea" by Thomas Hardy.
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/hardy02.html#16

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More unrequited love done with such a deft hand... enjoyed :)

"Look how he throws them up and up," - William Bliss Carman; The Juggler... https://www.poetrycat.com/william-bliss-carman/the-juggler

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed The Juggler so much! Her the boys juggle in front of the cars when the traffic lights are green.

Two "M" poems by Matsuo Basho:

Midfield

Midfield,
attached to nothing,
the skylark singing.
https://www.poetrycat.com/matsuo-basho/midfield


Moonlight slanting

Moonlight slanting
through the bamboo grove;
a cuckoo crying.
https://www.poetrycat.com/matsuo-basho/moonlight-slanting

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I so love Basho's haiku :)

"Never forgetful silence fall on thee," - Lionel Johnson; Celtic Speech... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw332.html

[Danik 2016]

The power of Music. Wonderful poem

To the times when the summer rain was still gentle:

"O GENTLE, gentle summer rain,".Invocation to Rain in Summer. William Cox Bennett (1820-1895)
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw399.html

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Enjoyed... an invocation all too repeated since the 19th century.

"Philadelphia is greek for love between brothers" - Charles Exton; Proverbs 17: 17... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/proverbs-17-17/

[Danik 2016]

"Proverbs 17: 17... " Enjoyed its wisdom.

"Quieter"."The Stronghold" by SirJohn Collings Squire.
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-collings-squire/stronghold-37959

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Reads like a nightmare... enjoyed :)

"Reptilian green the wrinkled throat," - Yvor Winters; Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/sir-gawaine-and-the-green-knight/

[Danik 2016]

Wonderful take on the Legends of the Round Table!

"Safe in their Alabaster Chambers –"."Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (124)" by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/safe-in-their-alabaster-chambers-124/

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Wonderful poem :)

"The awful shadow of some unseen Power" - Percy Bysshe Shelley; Hymn to Intellectual Beauty...
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45123/hymn-to-intellectual-beauty
Audio by Vincent Price: https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=video+Hymn+to+Intellectual+BeautyBY+PERCY+BYSSHE +SHELLEY&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:531d936d,vid:u7b3TZNWqiE,st:0
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymn_to_Intellectual_Beauty

[Danik 2016]

Wow!Powerful Poem! Thanks for the link, tailor!

I have to answer with Faust´s encounter with the Spirit of the Earth, even if this part of the play doesn´t begin with "U":

"How differently it works on me, this Sign!
You, the Spirit of Earth, are nearer:
Already, I feel my power is greater,
Already, I glow, as with fresh wine.
I feel the courage to engage the world,
Into the pain and joy of Earth be hurled, 465
And though the storm wind is unfurled,
Fearless, in the shipwreck’s teeth, be whirled.
There’s cloud above me –
The Moon hides its light –
The lamp flickers!
Now it dies! Crimson rays dart
Round my head – Horror
Flickers from the vault above,
And grips me tight!
I feel you float around me,
Spirit, I summon to appear, speak to me!
Ah! What tears now at the core of me!
All my senses reeling
With fresh feeling!
I feel you draw my whole heart towards you!
You must! You must! Though my Life’s lost, too!
(He grips the book and speaks the mysterious name of the Spirit. A crimson
flame flashes, the Spirit appears in the flame.)
Spirit
Who calls me?
Faust (Looking away)
Terrible to gaze at!
Spirit
Mightily you have drawn me to you,
Long, from my sphere, snatched your food,
And now –
Faust
Ah! Endure you, I cannot!
Spirit
You beg me to show myself, you implore,
You wish to hear my voice, and see my face:
The mighty prayer of your soul weighs
With me, I am here! – What wretched terror
Grips you, the Superhuman! Where is your soul’s calling?
Where is the heart that made a world inside, enthralling:
Carried it, nourished it, swollen with joy, so tremulous,
That you too might be a Spirit, one of us?
Where are you, Faust, whose ringing voice
Drew towards me with all your force?
Are you he, who, breathing my breath,
Trembles in all your life’s depths,
A fearful, writhing worm?
Faust
Shall I fear you: you form of fire?
I am, I am Faust: I am your peer!
Spirit
In Life’s wave, in action
I blow, to and fro!
Birth and the tomb,
An eternal flow,
A woven changing,
A glow of Being.
Over Time’s quivering loom intent,
Working the Godhead’s living garment.
Faust
You who wander the world, on every hand,
Active Spirit, how close to you I feel!
Spirit
You’re like the Spirit that you understand
Not me!
(It vanishes.)"
https://antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/faust.pdf

The "U" poem:
"Umbrageous". "Hamlet" by Walter De La Mare
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/walter-de-la-mare/hamlet-33532

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Faust: Wonderful passage !

De La Mare: Hamlet - "his face a parchment of old age"... another worthy poem :)

"Vast the realm of Being is," - Ralph Waldo Emerson; Vast The Realm Of Being Is, ... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/ralph-waldo-emerson/vast-the-realm-of-being-is-15458

[Danik 2016]

To the point! Enjoyed!

"With its three southern branches reaching the Chu border,"."A View of the Han River" by Wang Wei
https://www.poetrycat.com/wang-wei/a-view-of-the-han-river

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A touching poem :) Wang Wei: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Wei_(Tang_dynasty)

"X is for Hope" - Catherine Flynn; X is for Hope... https://readingtothecore.com/2023/05/19/poetry-friday-x-is-for-hope/

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Loved the link on Wan Wei


"X is for Hope" - an honest "Z" poem.

"a stone at dawn"."Easter Morning" by Amy Clampitt
https://100.best-poems.net/easter-morning.html

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Another Easter poem :) Enjoyed !

I'll take a step back with a "y" and "z" poem...

"Yet I swear" - Deepak Kumar Pattanayak;Fate is not a petty thing... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fate-is-not-a-petty-thing/

"Zaccheus climbed the tree," - John Newton; Zaccheus... https://hymnary.org/text/zaccheus_climbed_the_tree

and follow with an Easter "b"...

"Because of Jesus my Lord, I can rejoice evermore" - Nicole Weaver; Because of Jesus My Lord... https://authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?id=358703&AuthorID=106706

:)

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Oh my, oh my, oh my! Sorry for the muddle! Thanks for the correction, elegantly filling the gaps with poems, tailor.

"Fate is not a petty thing... " A curious poem because of its vindictive tone.
"Zaccheus climbed the tree," -Zaccheus is so representative of the seeking human.
"Because of Jesus my Lord, I can rejoice evermore"- the confidence of the believer.

"Come with rain, O loud Southwester!". "To the Thawing Wind" by Robert Frost (1874-1963).

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re: "To the Thawing Wind": "Scatter poems on the floor;" ! Sounds like the poet Frost is tired of winter, and perhaps writing, lol. https://www.potw.org/archive/potw291.html Enjoyed :)

"Downhill I came, hungry, and yet not starved;" - Edward Thomas; The Owl... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-owl/

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Sorry! Forgot to provide the link. Lol, yes I agree!

The Owl. Wonderful poem, in a sense the opposite of the poem before. The "bad" is now Each eveon the outside.

"Each eve".The Day Of Days. by William Morris
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-morris/day-of-days-27588

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Enjoyed :) An analysis: https://allpoetry.com/poem/8476593-The-Day-Of-Days-by-William-Morris

"Friends I am here to modestly report" - Ross Gay; Wedding Poem... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/wedding-poem/

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Thanks for the analysis and for the all poetry version.

Wedding Poem... AAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIII!

"GHOSTS of my fathers, while you keep". "An Epilogue".
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/bestof1923a.html#15

An Epilogue

GHOSTS of my fathers, while you keep
On ghostly hills your ghostly sleep,
If for a moment you should turn
The pages of this book to learn
What trade your offspring's taken to,
Forgive me that my flocks and herds
Are only barren bleating words.

https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/bestof1923a.html#15

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Sad, melancholy poem... enjoyed :)

"How can we die when we're already" - Tacey M. Atsitty; Anasazi... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/anasazi/

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Enjoyed Anasazi. I love this site which has so many different original poets. Found this background link:
Hope there is no pay wall:https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/science/08anasazi.html

"I didn’t want to scold the sky that year, but". "All Thirst Quenched" by Lois Red Elk
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/all-thirst-quenched/

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re: nytimes - No problem, I have a nytimes account that I do not pay for since I reference their website so seldom. The demise of their society is more complex than I had realized.

re: "I didn't want..." - Easily relatable in a drought stricken region... enjoyed :)

"Joy came in youth as a humming-bird," - Sophie M. (Almon) Hensley; Joy... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/sophie-m-almon-hensley/printpoem/song-18448

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"Joy..." Sad poem although it talks about joy because it depicts the transitory nature of life.

Two "K" poems by Kobayashi Issa:

1-Kasuga Field's deer

Kobayashi Issa

"Kasuga Field's deer

also attend...

Buddha amid birthday flowers"
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/3388/kasuga-field%26%23039%3Bs-deer.html

2-kites of Edo

Kobayashi Issa

"kites of Edo

from morning on, heads

shaking, shaking"
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/3528/kites-of-edo.html

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Very enjoyable Issa poems :)

"Land of the West! though passing brief the record of thine age," - Eliza Cook; Washington... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw387.html

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Washington- The leader image depicted in this poem makes me feel how much the current world is lacking in strong but wise leaders.

"MANY a vanished year and age,". "Corinth"(From The Siege of Corinth) by George Gordon, Lord Byron
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/3111/corinth.html

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Agreed. Washington is my 7th cousin 7-times removed :) My daughter must have followed in his footsteps by cutting down my cherry tree... her home now resides on that spot, lol.

Corinth: "A fortress formed to Freedom’s hands." :)

"No matter the pull toward brink. No" - Ross Gay; Sorrow Is Not My Name... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/sorrow-is-not-my-name/

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re: Congrats on the kinship with Washington. Sorry for the cherry tree though. Where did your daughter reside before?

Enjoyed " Sorrow Is Not My Name...". The title is very fitting for someone called Gay.


"One night, not long after the disaster,"."After the Disaster" by Abigail Deutsch
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/after-the-disaster/

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re: daughter - on the adjoining property...

I tried to understand "After the Disaster" but my attempt was a disaster.

"Powhatan was conqueror," - Vachel Lindsay; Our Mother Pocahontas... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/our-mother-pocahontas/

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re daughter: I see. She is living more near from you and your wife now.
re:"After The Disaster". There are some analysis but behind paywall or similar. So my own attempt: the disaster would be the attack on the twin towers in 2000 as the visible part of one of the analysis suggests. The girl is in fact a kind of angel, visible only to the poet. She represents a real or a symbolic loss.

"Quick gleam! that ridest on the gossamer!"."To the Gossamer-Light" by Charles Turner (19th poem)
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/turner01.html#19

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Only a couple hundred feet closer :)

Analysis: Ah, figured maybe the towers but was lost otherwise.

Delightful poem, about humming birds I believe :)

"Remember me when I am gone away," - Christina Rossetti; Remember... https://poets.org/poem/remember

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"Remember". Sad and beautiful poem!

"School is over. It is too hot"."The Lonely Street" by William Carlos Williams
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/wcw-sg3.html#50 (19th poem)

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Enjoyed WCW's poem... found an analysis: https://allpoetry.com/The-Lonely-Street :)

"The roc wings fanwise," - Mao Tse-tung; Two Birds: A Dialogue... https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/poems/poems36.htm

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re: Enjoyed the analysis of WCW's poem, very much to the point.
A poem by Mao Tse-tung is a surprise indeed. Enjoyed.

"Under mossy oak and pine"."Creole Serenade" by Madison Julius Cawein
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/madison-julius-cawein/creole-serenade-11323

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Magical poem: "And, with starry blossoms blent, / Like the moon she leans O heart, / 'Tis another firmament." :)

"Veil them, cover them, wall them round," - Rudyard Kipling; Letting In The Jungle... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/rudyard-kipling/letting-in-the-jungle-3586

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Enjoyed the poem but it sounds as end of the world, our world:"And the blind walls crumble, unknown, o'erthrown,/And none shall inhabit again!"

"Where dips the rocky highland"."The Stolen Child" by W. B. Yeats
https://poets.org/poem/stolen-child

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RK was ahead of his time :)

Sweet poem: "To the waters and the wild / With a faery, hand in hand, /For the world's more full of weeping than he can understand." Enjoyed :)

"X is for excess, i was there at the start." - Billy Smith; Generation X... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/generation-x-4/

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re RK agreed.

Agree with X poem. Prefer not to ask what "going splat" is.

"What's the bird ratio overhead?"."Some Questions about the Storm" by Hilda Raz
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49953/some-questions-about-the-storm

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re RK agreed.

Agree with X poem. Prefer not to ask what "going splat" is.

"What's the bird ratio overhead?"."Some Questions about the Storm" by Hilda Raz
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49953/some-questions-about-the-storm

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re: "splat"... lol. Prolly having to live with the consequences of such a lifestyle.

Interesting climate change poem... enjoyed :)

"Wind finds the northwest gap, fall comes." - Robert Penn Warren; Heart of Autumn... https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-18-bk-33561-story.html

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Going to a wake today. One of my best friends died yesterday after more of thirty years of Parkinson disease.

AAAIIIIIII Love the way the poet blends man and geese destiny. Going on with "Z".

"The zero mark can be"."Zero" by Marvin Eli Kirsh
https://www.authorsden.com/categories/poetry.asp?alpha=z&catid=33

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Sincere sympathies... Just found out a dear friend of mine passed away this morning too :(

Enjoyed the logic of your "z" poem :)

"Angels don’t come to the reservation." Natalie Diaz; Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/abecedarian-requiring-further-examination-of-anglikan-seraphym-subjugation-of-a-wild-indian-rezervation/

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Thanks. I am sorry for you too!

Wonderful poem! The a, b,c, of Indian cultural supression. No analysis needed. Needed is Nalanda
Abhay Ka Brazilian corresponding text. Put the poem in my other American forum.

"Bakhtiyar and his men".Nalanda by Abhay K
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/4585/nalanda.html

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"a falling humanity" (sigh)... An enlightened call.

"Call down the hawk from the air;" - William Butler Yeats; The Hawk... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-butler-yeats/hawk-136

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"The Hawk..".Powerfull poem...Enjoyed specially strophe 1 and 2.

"Dartmeet - a mob of waters".Dart [Extract]by Alice Oswald
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/1428/dart-%5Bextract%5D.html

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Enjoyed the confluence of waters that comingled into a poem :)

"Early each spring the little wren" - Charles Sangster; The Wren... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/charles-sangster/wren-30344

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The Wren...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!

"Fair tiny rosebud! what a tide"."To My First Born" by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/poetrylines.php?letter=F&page=2

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Having to use old Safari browser for Windows...

Enjoyed! Found your poem here with a short analysis: https://allpoetry.com/poem/8529163-To-My-First-Born-by-Rosanna-Eleanor-Leprohon

"Give me hunger," Carl Sandburg; At a Window... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/at-a-window/

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re: What is wrong with your usual browser? Litnet page lacerated?
Suggestions if the problem appears again with Safari:
Litnet works on Duck Duck, Sea Monkey and probably Midori. They are all very jurasic and therefore Google or Whatever can´t disfunctionalize Litnet. I use them only for LitNet, for other sites I use a modern browser

re; Thanks for the analysis which shows that the poem is typical for the 19C. The bio of the author brought some surprises:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosanna_Eleanor_Leprohon

re:At a Window...Extraordinary poem but if I have to choose I prefer Food to love.

"Had I the sweet resounding lyre"."The Flower of Gnido" by Garcilaso de la Vega

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re: Browser - Jurassic, lol. This page wasn't allowing any replies for some reason and I couldn't get a work-around using Opera. Opera had been a bit wonky on earlier pages and I had to keep signing... so this page only I resorted to old Safari for Windows and it allowed me to post... wonder if Opera will work on this page today... find out in a second...

re: Browser - Jurassic, lol. This page wasn't allowing any replies for some reason and I couldn't get a work-around using Opera. Opera had been a bit wonky on earlier pages and I had to keep signing... so this page only I resorted to old Safari for Windows and it allowed me to post... wonder if Opera will work on this page today... find out in a second... Ok... working today? :)

Ack! Worked for a moment then my edited reply gakked and got signed out again... luckily I copied my post to the clipboard:

Gnido: http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2148/the-flower-of-gnido.html

Tragic poem... I've read it three times and need to research a little more to get the full impact.

"I would my soul were like the bird" - Edwin Markham;
The Daring One... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-daring-one/

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I wish you luck with the new browser.
This may help with Garcilaso, it´s not an easy poet:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garcilaso_de_la_Vega_(poet)

The Daring One- AAAIII! Postmodern courage and fragility!
"Knows if the bough breaks, still his wings
Will bear him upward while he sings!"

"Jesu! bless our slender boat,".Hymn (For the boatmen, as they approach the rapids under The Castle of Heidelberg)
by William Wordsworth
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2049/hymn-%28for-the-boatmen%2C-as-they-approach-the-rapids-under-the-castle-of-heidelberg%29.html

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Fighting browser issues AND internet throttling... using Safari for Windows and my cell phone hotspot for now. This page is not being kind: "do not have permission to post", or some such rot.

re: "Jesu..." - Must be some rapids ! Enjoyed :)

"Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs," - Robert Browning; An Epistle - Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43754/an-epistle-containing-the-strange-medical-experience-of-karshish-the-arab-physician

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Karshish-a different version of Jesus' ride to Jerusalem. Have to go back to it.

"Like two cathedral towers these stately pines"."My Cathedral" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

https://www.litscape.com/author/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow/My_Cathedral.html

Links that may help
https://www.siteuptime.com/blog/2018/07/19/website-not-working-lets-find-out-why/
https://forums.opera.com/topic/66843/i-can-t-open-my-website-on-opera-browser

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Ab-so-tively lovely poem by HWL... Reminds me for my Thursdays at Two poetry group today I'm sharing Trees by Joyce Kilmer for our segment of sharing a poem by another poet:

1886 - 1918 Kilmer published his last poetry collection, Main Street and Other Poems (George H. Doran Company, 1917), the same year he enlisted in the U.S. Army to serve in World War I, during which time he continued to write poems while fighting in the Sixty-Ninth Regiment. He died of a gunshot from a German sniper on July 30, 1918. -wikipedia

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
(poem in the public domain)

Thanx... I'll check the links out :)

"My muse demands study in all her ways to know" - Captain Cur; Trust In What You Write... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/trust-in-what-you-write/

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Enjoyed the tree poem. Again I was surprised that Joyce was a man

"Trust In What You Write..." Sound advice by Captain Cur.

"Nay! Stranger! smile not at this little dome,"Apology for the Little Naval Temple, on Storrs Point, Windermere" by John Wilson http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/4006/apology-for-the-little-naval-temple%2C-on-storrs-point%2C-windermere.htmlby

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Enjoyed ! Didn't know England had a Lake District, though one reads of their many rivers. I look at the proximity to other countries and am amazed. Hard to believe England is so much smaller than California in area... It's stature is so much greater.

"Oh, vain is the stern protesting" - Ella Wheeler Wilcox; The Tides... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/ella-wheeler-wilcox/tides-32879