Alphabetical Poem First Lines

[Danik 2016]

re: I didn't know it either.it must be a small lake district. I Iooked it up, it seems actually to be the Canadian one:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windermere_Lake_(British_Columbia).

"The Tides". "Powerful poem"

"Pale beech and pine-tree blue,"In A Wood" By Thomas Hardy

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Found an analysis of In A Wood by Thomas Hardy... https://poemanalysis.com/thomas-hardy/in-a-wood/... a rather 180º turn of thought about nature's balm... still enjoyed :)

"Quo vadis ask I" - Alan S Jeeves; Quo Vadis Et Ego Rogabo... https://www.poetry.com/poem/105274/quo-vadis-et-ego-rogabo

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No editing of the page above. Finishing the post with the poem, first line starting with "R":

"Recommended by an old friend, a forty"."Hotel du Danube Saint Germaine" by Bonnie Manion
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/3081/hotel-du-danube-saint-germaine.html

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Enjoyed ! What a wonderful revelation :)

"Select your sorrows if you can," - Carson McCullers; Saraband... https://www.poemhunter.com/carson-mccullers/

[Danik 2016]

I love the novels by Carson McCullers. Didn't know that she wrote poetry too. Enjoyed!

"The tide ebbs and reveals orange and purple sea stars." "At the Equinox" by Arthur Sze
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/at-the-equinox/

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Enjoyed so very much :)

"Unaware of its terror," - Muriel Stuart; Madala Goes By The Orphanage... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/muriel-stuart/madala-goes-by-the-orphanage-36545

[Danik 2016]

Wonderful poem!

"Valley of waving broom,". "In the Rangitaki Valley" by Katherine Mansfield
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/740/in-the-rangitaki-valley.html

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Passionate poem :) "O mystical marriage of Earth"... enjoyed :)

"We thought the birds were singing louder. We were" - Beth Ann Fenneley; A Wing and a Prayer... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a-wing-and-a-prayer/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the poem! Birds against other noises.

"Xerxes Wept"."When Xerxes Wept" by Julian Scutts
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/when_xerxes_wept_986741

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"A conqueror of conquerors is there, / and Chronos is his name. "... so true... enjoyed :)

"YoHoUpSheRises" - George Starbuck; Dame Edith's Hundredth... https://static.poetryfoundation.org/jstor/i20601548/pages/15.png

[Danik 2016]

Dame Edith's Hundredth.. Lol!Liked the obsessive rhyming.

"Zenko Temple, too"."Zenko Temple, too" by Kobayashi Issa
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/3395/zenko-temple%2C-too.html

Kobayashi Issa
"Zenko Temple, too

quickly passed over...

geese flying north"
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/3395/zenko-temple%2C-too.html

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Enjoyed the brevity of Issa :)

"A bobcat creeps between pinon pines" - Bonnie Manion; A Land Before Time... http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/3133/a-land-before-time.html

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"A Land Before Time...". Enjoyed this poetic flash of the canyon!

"Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root,". "The Tropics of New York" by Claude McKay
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2294/the-tropics-of-new-york.html

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"A wave of longing through my body swept," Enjoyed :)

"Cradled in ice, and swathed in snows," - Kate Seymour Maclean; New Year 1868... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/new-year-1868/

[Danik 2016]

"New Year 1868..." Enjoyed!

"Dawn comes up on London,"."London Dawn" by Ivor Gurney
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/1433/london-dawn.html

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Stirred my soul... enjoyed very much :) Will use it as my next Poem by Another Poet for our 1st & 3rd Thursday group on May 2 :)

From The New Yorker: “He was buried in the churchyard of Twigworth (U.K.), a village near Gloucester, and was described on his gravestone as “Musician and Poet / A lover and maker / Of beauty.” That stone has since been replaced by another, which reads “Composer / Poet of the Severn / and Somme.” When even a man’s gravestones disagree, further digging is required.” ... The only man I've learnt of with the same first name as one of my Uncles.

"Each day in lights and city streets," - Frank Watson; A City Asleep... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/member/city-asleep

[Danik 2016]

:)

Loved "A City Asleep". Same experience in a bigger city here.
"Facing west from California's shores"."Facing West from California Shores" by
Walt Whitman.
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2371/facing-west-from-california-shores.html

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Enjoyed W.W.'s poem: "Now I face home again, very pleas'd and joyous, / (But where is what I started for so long ago? / And why is it yet unfound?)"... sounds like one of my senior moments :)

"Going to heaven! I don't know when," - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson; Going To Heaven!... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/emily-elizabeth-dickinson/going-to-heaven-13746

[Danik 2016]

re W.W.: Lol! Mine too, very specially the second part of the citation.

"Going to heaven! I don't know when," - light verses on a weighty subject (Ai!). Enjoyed!

"Had I but lived a hundred years ago". "At Lulworth Cove a Century Back" by Thomas Hardy
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/76/at-lulworth-cove-a-century-back.html

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Enjoyed ! :) Found this: https://victorianweb.org/authors/hardy/pva217.html

"I lost summer somewhere" - Sarah Russell; I lost summer somewhere... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/member/i-lost-summer-somewhere

[Danik 2016]

Interesting information about Lulworth Cove and the Hardy-Keats connection. I have read and enjoyed several of Hardy`s novels, but I came to know his poetry only recently through this thread.

Delicate poem. You know, my German digital friend tells me stories about a pair of storks who are regular residents at a storks nesting place in front of her house. Every year the storks come at early spring, build their nest anew, raise their children and when it starts to get cold they fly to the south. They are so regular, they almost have a Zip code.

"Junkies line up by the infant day;"."Forest Hill Station" by Yasemin Balandi
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/4838/forest-hill-station.html

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re: storks :)

Poem setting: About 10 km from where my Mother lived as a child...

Disturbing modern homage to Forest Hill Station... enjoyed.

"Know this, ye restless denizens of earth," - Ella Wheeler Wilcox; Three Things... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/ella-wheeler-wilcox/three-things-32998

[Danik 2016]

Very much to the point. Enjoyed "Three Things"!

"Land lies in water; it is shadowed green."."The Map" by Elizabeth Bishop
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/4644/the-map.html

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Enjoyed E.B.'s poem very much... "These peninsulas take the water between thumb and finger /
like women feeling for the smoothness of yard-goods." Maps can be quite expressive :)

"my dead grandmother’s young" - Ina Cariño; Native Title... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/native-title/

[Danik 2016]

A sad,but assertive poem!


"NEAR Moskva’s stream, through heath and forest gliding,"."A County Church" by James Gates Percival
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/3200/a-county-church.html

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Guesstimate the church is 80 km from Moscow (more via the river). Post USA Revolutionary war/pre-Civil war poet; definitely a sentimentalist poem as per his bio at Wikipedia... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gates_Percival Enjoyed :)

"One tone is mute within the starry singing," - Clark Ashton Smith; Lament Of The Stars... http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/poetry/278/lament-of-the-stars

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the Wikipedia article,Didn't know there was a city called Berlin in Connecticut.

I like the cosmic ring in "Lament Of The Stars...".A poem to be read more than once, I think..

"Past cottage piers, past the tiny store and"."One Perfect Day" by Bonnie Manion
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/3276/one-perfect-day.html

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One perfect day indeed :) Enjoyed!

"Quench the thirst" - Hasmukh Mehta; Quench the thirst... https://www.poetry.com/poem/82481/quench-the-thirst

[Danik 2016]

Good rythm! Enjoyed!

"Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud"."Written on Top of Ben Nevis" by John Keats
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/71/written-on-top-of-ben-nevis.html

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Wonderful poem of Scotland, et al: "all my eye doth meet / Is mist and crag, not only on this height, / But in the world of thought and mental might!

"Silken is the falling moon" - Captain Cur; Aoide, Silken Is The Fallen Moon... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/aoide-silken-is-the-falling-moon/

[Danik 2016]

Beautiful poem!

"The summer everyone left for the moon"."1969" by Alex Dimitrov
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/1969/

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"Then returned to continue the war." I remember the optimism of the the space program in 1969, '70, '71, '72 balanced with the realization of needing to register for the draft in a few years, 3-months into my senior year (1971/72) of high school. Wasn't called up through the lottery that year nor subsequent years, nor did I enlist, but many were/did. Alex's poem seems a bit disjointed in spots, but so were the times... enjoyed :)

"Unsought by man, and whose untrodden depths" - Sallie Bridges; The Sovereign of the Pampas
... https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/poems-of-places-an-anthology-in-31-volumes/the-sovereign-of-the-pampas/

[Danik 2016]

Internet issues yesterday, as they were substituting the cables in my street.

re1969: I also remember the optimism of those years. But I think you were lucky for not having to enlist. You probably would have been a very different man today, if you did.
Majestic poem! Sadly I have never been to the Pampas, but the torrid heath goes on here too. It´s now May and temperatures are still soaring about 30°.

"Vague mystery hangs on all these desert places". "On a Headland in the Bay of Panama" by Bryan Waller Procter
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/3747/on-a-headland-in-the-bay-of-panama.html

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Ah, you were missed. Today we're getting brisk winds and rain from a system originating in Alaska with a high of 8º C; no snow here but 305 m higher may get some. My BBC news feed from my Alexa flash briefing just referred to terrible weather in Brasil such that rivers are flooding and one dam has burst and another dam being threatened all with hot weather... prayers.

Quite a mystery of an ancient peoples... enjoyed

"We've always been out looking for answers," - Diane Thiel; Listening in Deep Space... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/l...in-deep-space/

[Danik 2016]

Prayers so very welcome. The state most south of Brazil is flooded, more than 30.000 people are homeless.There are also several dead and disappeared people.

I have to cheat, "X" poems have become so seldom


"ON these white cliffs, that"."X. On Dover Cliffs." by William Lisle Bowles
http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=538682

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I only have 2-"x" poems left in my research queue :(

The English half of me longs to see the cliffs of Dover... enjoyed very much :)

"Your hair draping down" - Captain Cur; Adagio, Love Poems... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/adagio-love-poems/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the images!

A Ztitled poem
"A sunny shaft did I behold".Zapolya (song) by Samuel Coleridge
https://www.poetry.com/poem/34404/zapolya

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Sweet poem :)

"Art thou asleep? or have thy wings" - Walter De La Mare; The Glimpse... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/glimpse-6

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"The Glimpse..." so very suited to our time of life! Enjoyed with some heartache.

"Barkindji are weeping for their Baarka mother"."Darling" by Sue Aldred
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/4948/darling.html

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Sickening :( Enjoyed the poem :)

"Cover thy spacious heavens, Zeus," - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Prometheus... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/prometheus-16650

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This is my favorite poem by Goethe! See this proud words of defiance:

"Here sit I, forming mortals
After my image;
A race resembling me,
To suffer, to weep,
To enjoy, to be glad,
And thee to scorn,
As I!"

"Dante, old Ghibelline! Your godlike head". "Dante" by Auguste Barbier
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2620/dante.html

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The poem depicts what a contentious world Dante lived in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri
... enjoyed :)

"Essential oils are wrung:" - Emily Dickinson; Essential Oils Are Wrung:... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/emily-elizabeth-dickinson/essential-oils-are-wrung-13769

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re Dante:I agree. Thanks for the link.
Found this analysis of the poem by Emily Dickinson :https://eliteskills.com/c/17530

"Fain would my Muse the flow'ry Treasures sing,"In Imitation Of Cowley : The Garden" by Alexander Pope
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/alexander-pope/in-imitation-of-cowley-the-garden-1639

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re: Emily - Incredible depth that eluded me... thank you for the link for the analyses... :)

Wonderful romantic language used by Pope... Enjoyed :)

"Gabble-gabble,... brethren,... gabble-gabble!" - Robert von Ranke Graves; A Boy In Church... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/robert-von-ranke-graves/boy-in-church-37803

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re Emily The poem eluded me too.

"A Boy In Church..." Loved this poem build on contrasts: church x weather outside; "serious" prayer x mad prayer; humans x trees.

"Hail to thee, monarch of African mountains,"."Kilimandjaro" by Bayard Taylor.
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/4404/kilimandjaro.html

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Wonderful homage to Kilimanjaro... Enjoyed :)

"Instead of a cup of tea, instead of a milk-" - Marilyn Hacker; Crepuscule with Muriel... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/crepuscule-with-muriel/

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Very original and complex. Found this interesting bio of Hacker: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/marilyn-hacker

"Just after rain"."BEAUTIFUL LONG BLONDE HAIR LEGEND" by Robert Clairmont
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2592/beautiful-long-blonde-hair-legend.html

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re: Hacker - as multi-faceted a persona as her poetry :)

BLBHL - Dadaist perhaps ? Enjoyed :)

"Keep pure the thoughts within thy mind," - Thomas Frederick Young; Purity... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8628695-Purity-by-Thomas-Frederick-Young

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re Robert Clairton. All I found about his life:
"ROBERT CLAIRMONT, poet, was born in 1902 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he grew up. He attended the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University. Clairmont is author of Quintillions, Star in the West, and Forever X; and the first volume of the series Poets of Today (1938) is given to his work. He was editor of the periodical New Cow of Greenwich Village and, in the early 1950's, of the poetry magazine Pegasus. The book Millionaire Playboy, by Tom Boggs, is a fictionalized account of Robert Clairmont's life."
https://www.beautyofnyc.org/Clairmont-Bio.htm

"Purity" A very Victorian poem.

"Life with the sun in"."Song." by Thomas Runciman
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/thomas-runciman/song-30047

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Re: RC... thanx :)

I think Thomas was having a bad day... enjoyed :)

"Murmur of living! Stir of existence" - Matthew Arnold; Richmond Hill... https://www.poetrycat.com/matthew-arnold/richmond-hill

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re Thomas: lol...yes,he probably was,Too many shadows in that poem.
Arnold being the opposite of Thomas.

"Needing one, I invented her"."Aunt Leaf by Mary Oliver"
https://www.poetrycat.com/mary-oliver/aunt-leaf

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Fanciful poem... enjoyed! :)

"On must we go: we search dead leaves," - Gilbert Keith Chesterton; Art Colours... https://allpoetry.com/Art-Colours

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Re "Art Colours":
I found a Tagore poem but I forgot somehow to include it.Here it is:

A Hundred Years Hence – English Translation

A hundred years hence
Who it is
With such curiosity
Reads my poems
A hundred years hence!
Shall I be able to send you
An iota of joy of this fresh spring morning
The flower that blooms today
The songs that the birds sing
The glow of today’s setting sun
Filled with my feelings of love?

Yet for a moment
Open up your southern gate
And take your seat at the window
Look at the far horizon
And visualize in your mind’s eye —
One day a hundred years ago
A restless ecstasy drifted from the skies
And touched the heart of this world
The early spring mad with joy
Knew no bounds
Spreading its restless wings
The southern breeze blew
Carrying the scent of flowers’ pollen
All on a sudden soon
They coloured the world with a youthful glow
A hundred years ago.
That day a young poet kept awake
With an excited heart filled with songs
With so much ardour
Anxious to express so many things
Like buds of flowers straining to bloom
One day a hundred years ago.

A hundred years hence
What young poet
Sings songs in your homes!
For him
I send my tidings of joy of this spring.
Let it echo for a moment
In your spring, in your heartbeats,
In the humming of the bees
In the rustling of the leaves
A hundred years hence.
A transcreation of the poem 1400 Sal (The year 1400) from the collection Chitra by Rabindranath Tagore.
It was written on the 2nd of Falgun (first month of spring), 1302 (1895-96), of the Bengali calendar. Translated by Kumud Biswas. © by owner. provided at no charge for educational purposes
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Analysis (ai): The poem speculates on how a reader from a century in the future will experience the author's words. The speaker expresses doubt as to whether the reader will be able to truly understand the joy and beauty of the present moment through the author's poetry. Despite this uncertainty, the speaker sends a message of hope and joy to the future reader, hoping that they will find some solace in the author's words.

The poem's tone is one of nostalgia and longing, as the speaker reflects on the passage of time and the fleeting nature of human experiences. The speaker's use of vivid imagery and sensory details creates a strong sense of immediacy and connection between the reader and the speaker's experience. The poem's language is simple and direct, yet it is also full of rich and evocative imagery, which helps to create a strong sense of atmosphere and emotion.

The poem's themes of time, memory, and the power of art to transcend the boundaries of time are universal and relatable, making the poem accessible to readers of all ages and backgrounds. The poem's simple yet evocative language also makes it a powerful and moving work of art that can stay with the reader long after they have finished reading it.
Read more →
https://allpoetry.com/A-Hundred-Years-Hence--English-Translation


The "P" poem:
"Propped on a stick he viewed the August weald;". "The One-Legged Man" by Siegfried Sassoon
https://www.poetrycat.com/siegfried-...one-legged-man

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Enjoyed Tagore's poem and the analysis... much to ponder upon :)

Sassoon: "Thank God they had to amputate!" - what a terrible outlook to think of; the alternative having to deal more with the horror (or die) :( ... enjoyed.

"Questions & Answers" - K.V Srikanth; Q & a... https://www.poetry.com/poem/97778/q--&-a

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"Questions & Answers". Lol! A reflection on the dilemmas of graduation. Enjoyed the unusual theme.

"Rose, you majesty-once, to the ancients, you were". "The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: VI" by Rainer Maria Rilke
https://www.poetrycat.com/rainer-maria-rilke/the-sonnets-to-orpheus-book-2-vi

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"the inexhaustible countenance." :) Enjoyed very much.

"Said a people to a poet "Go out from among us straightway!" - Elizabeth Barrett Browning; The Poet And The Bird... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/elizabeth-barrett-browning/poet-and-the-bird-6922

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"The Poet And The Bird..." Sad story but the poem survives to tell it. Enjoyed.

"The mower alone"."Advection Blues" by Michael Metivier
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/advection-blues/

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Intriguing poem. Wonderful language usage. Googled "Bentonia" and found this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentonia_School
Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kQmbg97UeE

"Upon a time, before the faery broods" - John Keats; Lamia... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-keats/lamia-6236

Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY6ZFw8Zykk

Analyses:
• https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Lamia/plot-summary/
• https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/k/keats-poems/summary-and-analysis/lamia
• https://quizlet.com/gb/385639725/keats-lamia-flash-cards/

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Enjoyed the links particularly the "Bentonia". Reminds me of... I have still to remember.

Enjoyed the tragic story of Lamia and Lycius (read with the beat of the music of Bentonia Jimmy in the background)

"Voices. Light on my eyelid. In full cry,"."Open Window" by Victor Hugo
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2831/open-window.html

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Wonderful moment in time by the inimitable Hugo... enjoyed :)

"Where Kensington high o'er the neighb'ring lands," - Thomas Tickell; KENSINGTON GARDEN... https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o5152-w0080.shtml

[Danik 2016]

Still enjoying the noble verses of the legend of Albion. As the poem is long I am reading it by parts. Enjoyed also this 18th century.
collection.

A poem by a poet with the name beginning with "X":

"Death always takes the shape". "Nocturne: The Bedroom" by Xavier Villaurrutia.
https://allpoetry.com/Xavier-Villaurrutia

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I hadn't the patience to read Keats' epic; I added the audio recording because that's what I used to better enjoy the poem. Yes, the collection is quite nice too :)

A rather morose poem... enjoyed; also the analysis! :)

"Ye ancients of the earth, beneath whose shade" - Letitia Elizabeth Landon; The Cedars of Lebanon... https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/poems-of-places-an-anthology-in-31-volumes/the-cedars-of-lebanon-2/

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re Keats: I'll remember not to post to long poems.
"The Cedars of Lebanon". Love this kind of poetry.

"Today I reach the zenith of my life,"."The Zenith " by Hamish Mann
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/zenith/

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Lol... long poems are fine, I'll just find a video or audio version :)

War=glory... nuh-uh; another soldier/poet senselessly cut down. (sigh)

"Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night" - Edward Fitzgerald; The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Of Naishapur... https://eliteskills.com/c/7246

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The Rubayat looks interesting and complex, but I´ll have to read it later.

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Editing not possible.
So:

"Beauteous is it in the summer-night, and calm"."Charlemagne and The Bridge of Moonbeams" by Emanuel Geibel
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2074/charlemagne-and-the-bridge-of-moonbeams.html

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Enjoyed very much... a fanciful blessing by the spectre Charlemagne! Parker is whispering to me about the possibility of a "________ On The Bridge of Moonbeams” in the near future... I'll wait and see what she has in mind :)

"Creatures there are in life of such keen sight" - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet XVII... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/francesco-petrarca/sonnet-xvii-28412

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Petrarca- enjoyed the comparison with the moth.
"Dawn takes the everlasting skies"."A Cemetery in France" by Edwin Curran
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2391/a-cemetery-in-france.html

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"The dawn now takes it up the sky on wings / And in the song of every bird it sings, / The dead, the dead--gone on their wanderings."

"Even she too dead! all languor on her brow," - Walter De La Mare; Imogen... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/walter-de-la-mare/imogen-33529

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"Imogen" - wonderful images! Enjoyed.

"Fair lake, so picturesque in space,". "Greenwood Lake" by Isaac McLellan
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/4324/greenwood-lake.html

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Beautiful lake back in the 19th century; I wonder if it is still as accessible. Enjoyed :)

"Gather, O gather," - Percy Bysshe Shelley; Cancelled Stanza... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/percy-bysshe-shelley/cancelled-stanza-31376

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Enjoyed but found the title curious.

"Had a birthday yesterday".The Birthday Party by Madison Julius Cawein
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/madison-julius-cawein/birthday-party-11637

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re: title - If my research analysis holds up it shows that "fragments" and "canceled stanzas", et al were part of Shelleys revision process. Using a search of the word "cancel" in the following document shows that the "canceled stanza" was removed from a greater work, but retained as a stand alone piece... https://www.iqbalcyberlibrary.net/files/014//IPL0341.pdf

Sweet poem... enjoyed :)

From my friend and current El Dorado County, CA Poet Laureate:
"In a logged over meadow" - Steven Meadows; Tenmile... https://www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com/stephen-meadows-and-brigit-truex/

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re "canceled stanza": interesting information, tailor, thanks. In fact it works well as a stand alone piece as it´s meaning is complete in itself.

Enjoyed "Tenmile",interesting how the poet mingles landscape and history. I´m going to put the poem into the other American forum.

"KEEP a red heart of memories". "Haze" by Carl Sandburg
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/5100/haze.html

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"I know a woman is looking for you / and her soul is a corn-tassel kissing a south-west wind." - :) Enjoyed this poem by Sandburg very much!

"Lemon moon upon Azores and finbacks" - Michael Metivier; MARE COGNITUM... https://ariadnemag.com/michael-metivier/

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Mare Cognitum-Interesting poem that aludes to the ancient sea travelers and warriors.

"My brother still bites his nails to the quick,"Here’s an Ocean Tale" by Kwoya Fagin Maples
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/heres-an-ocean-tale/

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"So much hurt is forgotten with the horizon / as backdrop. It comes down to simple math." Too close to the mark... Her brother was lucky.

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

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"Qualities..."Interesting sintax. Smiled at the detail of the drink:
"And a Heaven,
Blissful.
To never ever end.
With our favorite beverage to sip,"

"O camp of flowers, with poplars girdled round,". "O Camp Of Flowers" by Erik Johan Stagnelius
https://www.poetry.com/poem/12759/o-camp-of-flowers

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Fanciful poem... enjoyed :)

"Poor are the gifts of the poet" - Richard Le Gallienne; To Maggie Le Gallienne With Love... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/richard-le-gallienne/to-maggie-le-gallienne-with-love-23653

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"To Maggie...".Enjoyed the poem but don't agree.

"Quite the character"."Queen" by Javon T Rolle
https://www.poetry.com/poem/116711/q-u-e-e-n!

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A poem of discovery; enjoyed :)

"Round the cape of a sudden came the sea," - Robert Browning; Parting At Morning... https://eliteskills.com/c/4826

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A short analysis of Brownings beautiful poem which compares love making to discovering new countries:
https://genius.com/Robert-browning-parting-at-morning-annotated

"Saturday night: the sun is going down;"."A Picture" by William Osborn Stoddard
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/1808/a-picture.html

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re: Browning - yes, I see.

A Picture... tried to find an analysis, no joy. Put it under the romanticist's "Browning" lens and got a little muddled; hence it must be an ekphrastic as the title suggests (a picture) or a snapshot in the poets mind - S4 prolly best suited for evidence. Enjoyed :)

"'T is you that are the music, not your song." - Amy Lowell; Listening... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/amy_lowell/poems/19974

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re "A Picture":
You are right.There is movement in that scene. A picture would have to be more estactic.
"Ulysses, much-experienced man,". "To Ulisses" Alfred Lord Tennyson
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/601/to-ulysses.html

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Enjoyed! A wiki analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(poem)

"Victory comes late –" - Emily Dickinson; Victory comes late –... https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/whiteheat/victory-comes-late-fr195a-j690/

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Thanks for the helpful analysis of the Ulisses poem, tailor!

Interesting blog. The poem itself is sharp. The analysis again is very helpful, don't know if I would have been able to understand the poem without it.

"We've always been out looking for answers,"."Listening in Deep Space" by Diane Thiel
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/listening-in-deep-space/

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"what will we do when we find each other?"... Good question... enjoyed :)

"X is for ten" - Elizabeth Coleman; X IS FOR TEN... https://kapitiindependentnews.net.nz/?p=84424

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Enjoyed this legit "X" poem.

"Yellow-bird, where did you learn that song,"."Yellow Bird" by Celia Thaxter
https://www.litscape.com/author/Celia_Thaxter/Yellow_Bird.html

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Sweet children's poem :) A popular song from days gone by: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASWOpXFUMGw

"Zero-sum game" - Gajanan Mishra; Zero-sum game... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=395297

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Loved the song and the old style singers, Going to listen to the other songs too.:)

Rather drastic poem, but a legitimate Z poem.

"A child is bumbling along the boardwalk"."Point Pelee" by Mark Nenadov
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/3171/point-pelee.html

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Enjoyed this poem very much: "eye candy for the walkers"... :)

"Between my finger and my thumb" - Seamus Heaney; Digging... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/digging/

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Loved so much this comparison between pen and spade: "Between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests./I’ll dig with it."

"CAN scenes like these withdraw thee from thy wood"."The Streamlet" by George Crabbe
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2866/the-streamlet.html

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Half a km from the Blacksmith's Cottage - seems to have dried out by now; perhaps still a garden or a wood ? Enjoyed the poem :)
More on the poet and his works: https://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/george_crabbe_2011_12.pdf

"Do not despair of man, and do not scold him," - Stevie Smith; Do Not!... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/do-not/

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Thanks for the Crabbe ebook!

"Do not"-I could swear this poem was written by a man until I read the bio.

"Each day I go into the fields"."The Farmer" by W.D. Ehrhart
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-farmer/

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A poem of futility in contrast to William Carlos Williams' poem: https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/farmer... enjoyed :)

"Factory windows are always broken." -
Vachel Lindsay; Factory Windows Are Always Broken... https://allpoetry.com/Factory-Windows-Are-Always-Broken

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"The Farmer". Agree with your comparison, tailor. If one thinks of the farm as representing the human field of action or even the poem itself for Ehrhart it seems a sort of "Loves labor lost". To live, to work and even to have and raise chldren (They would not understand me/if I stooped to lift a rock/and hold it like a child, or laughed,") seem futile attempts, while WCW's farmer looks proudly at his farm, seeing in it a constructive work in life and art.
Enjoyed very much "Factory Windows Are Always Broken..." and the analysis of the poem.

"Game for anything, they have a live model,"."At the Porcelain Factory, Aveiro" by Neil Leadbeater
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/4935/at-the-porcelain-factory%2C-aveiro.html

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Delightful poem... Enjoyed :)

"Halted against the shade of a last hill," - Wilfred Owen; Spring Offensive... https://eliteskills.com/c/1804

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Powerful poem contrasting soldiers resting in nature and the horrors of the battle.

"If I speak for the dead, I must leave". "Author’s Prayer" by Ilya Kaminsky
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/authors-prayer/
more poetry:https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/poems

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Interesting poem... Quite the accomplished poet. Not sure but the poem reads as if the protagonist feels guilt about being alive. Enjoyed.

"Joy of my life, full oft for loving you " - Edmund Spenser; Joy of my life, full oft for loving you... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/joy-of-my-life-full-oft-for-loving-you/

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re Ilya Kaminsky. Agree. This idea is still more explicit in this other poem:https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/we-lived-happily-during-the-war/

Enjoyed "Joy of my Life..." this 16th C poem.

"King Solomon drew merchantmen,"."The Merchantmen" by Rudyard Kipling
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/537/the-merchantmen.html

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re: Ilya - Yes, sadly.

Rollicking sea poem by a master writer... enjoyed :)

"Love at the lips was touch" - Robert Frost; To Earthward... https://eliteskills.com/c/514

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Enjoyed poem and analysis. One language quibble: Earthward translates for me as "in the direction of the earth. What is the "to " doing before the word? For me it sounds like a mistake, but that is impossible.

"My life closed twice before its close;"."Parting" by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/emily-elizabeth-dickinson/parting-138001
kind of interpretation:https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/parting/

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In an article brief on google I found a snippet, but couldn't access the full article: from: Getting round: notes towards an 'Ars Poetica.' - Document Gale https://go.gale.com › i.do by P Muldoon · 1998 · Cited by 70 —
`To Earthward'. Isn't that a shade tautological? Wouldn't `Earthward' make the point? My sense is that Frost is appealing to the title-format of `To" (ends there)... hence "tautology": "When used purposefully, it can make one’s writing sound more poetic and interesting. It can also help to drive home a point that’s particularly important in a passage."... https://poemanalysis.com/literary-device/tautology/ So Frost is using a bit of "poetic license", as the usage is on purpose.

Enjoyed Emily's poem & analysis (couldn't access the first link for some reason). To put a wrinkle in the meaning for me - my faith believes in a pre-mortal existence, so two "closings" proceeding death which lead to "immortality" or "eternal life" (which are differentiated) at the last judgment. It's unlikely Emily had this belief, though she lived in a time when my church was in its infancy, but one could hope :)

In honor of our full moon:

"Now as Heaven is my Lot, they're the Pests of the Nation!" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge; A Soliloquy of the Full Moon, She Being in a Mad Passion... https://eliteskills.com/c/4670

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Thanks for this extensive research, tailor. You hit the nail on the head, . I just wanted to know how you native speakers feel about this curious title.
Here are some nice examples of tautology:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(language)#:~:text=Like%20pleonasm%2C%20 tautology%20is%20often,or%20reader%20understand%20 a%20point.

Found this link about ED's relationship to Church and religion. I hope it opens:
https://youngwritersproject.org/explore/writing/emily-dickinson-and-church

"A Soliloquy of the Full Moon, She Being in a Mad Passion." A cute account of the romantic Moon!

"O bells that rang, O bells that sang". "The Mission Bells of Monterey" by Bret Harte
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?28819-Alphabetical-Poem-First-Lines&p=1405863#post1405863

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Enjoyed the wiki... Even more so the article on my distant cousin's religious convictions. I'm better acquainted with Eliza R. Snow's sensibilities through her works in my church, another distant cousin poet and hymn writer, who was 25-years Emily's senior and passed on within a year of Emily :)

Enjoyed "Bells"... The link referenced back to LitNet but I found it here... https://www.poetrycat.com/francis-bret-harte/the-mission-bells-of-monterey :)

"Plough, vessel, plough the British main," - Charlotte Bronte; The Missionary... https://www.poetrycat.com/charlotte-bronte/the-missionary

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Sorry for the wrong link!
Don't know whether you've read Jane Eyre. One of the characters is a missionary and the poem seems to be made for him.

"Queen and huntress, chaste"."Hymn To Diana" by Ben Jonson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/ben-jonson/hymn-to-diana-2457

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Sadly, no to Jane Eyre.

Wonderful homage poem to Diana :)

"Radishes flip their skirts in the wind" - Lorna Crozier; Radishes... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/08/19/radishes-by-lorna-crozier/

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"Radishes"-absolutely charming!

"Santa Ana came storming, as a storm might come;"."The Defence of the Alamo" by Joaquin Miller
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/730/the-defence-of-the-alamo.html

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Well written poem, albeit glorifying war.

"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves" - Lewis Carroll; Jabberwocky... https://eliteskills.com/c/2161

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re "Defence of Alamo"-Yes, but there seems to be another aspect too: the external bloody battle is compared to the battle against sin.
"I say that the victory, high or low,
Is given the hero who grapples with sin,
Or legion or single; just asking to know
When duty fronts death in his Alamo."

Love Jabberwocky.!

"URANIA, whom the Town admires,"."An EPISTLE from a Gentleman to Madam Deshouliers, returning Money she had lent him at Bassette, upon the first Day of their Acquaintance."(Translated with Liberty from the French)
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o4784-w0430.shtml

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Oh, I thought the sin referred here was cowardice.

Re; Jabber... - me too :)

Lol... what an odd reason to wax poetically :) Enjoyed!

"visiting a past self. Being anywhere makes me thirsty." - Kaveh Akbar; Being in This World Makes Me Feel Like a Time Traveler... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2020/07/03/being-in-this-world-makes-me-feel-like-a-time-traveler-by-kaveh-akbar/

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It sounds more generic to me, but you may be right.

Lol! Besides being bountiful with her money, Lady Urania surely possessed personal charm ;).

"Time Traveler". Enjoyed this original poem! And loved this site with its interesting poems and beautiful illustrations.

"Watching the first sunlight"."Wild Oats" by W.S. Merwin
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2021/01/01/wild-oats-by-w-s-merwin/

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Delicate poem... enjoyed very much :) A few words about Merwin's poetry including some on the poem you selected: https://imagejournal.org/2019/03/18/remembering-w-s-merwin-poet-of-disappearance/

"X is the Roman notation for ten," - unknown; X is the Roman notation for ten page 3 of 3... https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2290&context=wordways

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Loved this article about Merwin's poetry. On Fryday the mother of a very dear friend died at 96.She was losing her memory and her Children told me she was constantly asking for the absent members (including the dead ones) of her family.

"Ye brave old fig-trees! worthy pair!". "The Fig-Trees of Gherardesca" by Walter Savage Landor
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2129/the-fig-trees-of-gherardesca.html

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A tale of doomed fig trees... enjoyed :)

"Zeroes and ones, zeroes and ones," - Sam Fitts; Zeroes and Ones... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=585106

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Just now opened and enjoyed the pages with the poem in X. It wasn´t possible before because I don´t have Acrobat on my tablet.

As for "Zeroes and Ones" I suspect LItnet has a lot!

"A boy told me"."The Rider" by Naomi Shihab Nye
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/01/29/the-rider-by-naomi-shihab-nye/

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Acrobat... Didn't know that was an issue anymore... kind of take it for granted nowadays.

Delicate poem of trying to overcome loneliness. I remember skating alone with the old steel-wheeled skates in my neighborhood in San Mateo, CA (circa, '63 - '66) feeling so free and unalone - imagining all the "miles" going by through all the noisiness the skates made... and yes, bicycles did translate thus. Enjoyed :)

"Be music, night," - Kenneth Patchen; 'Be Music, Night'... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/be-music-night/

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"Be music, night,".Beautiful poem!
"COME, gentle God of soft Repose," ."An ODE To SLEEP" by Charlotte Lennox (née Ramsay)
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o5247-w0170.shtml

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"If sleeping I can still be blest, / Let Life be all a Dream." Enjoyed :)

"Doubt is a storming bull, crashing through" - Safiya Sinclair; The Ragged and the Beautiful... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-ragged-and-the-beautiful/

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"The Ragged and the Beautiful..." What a beautiful and original way of referring to the emigrant and descendants condition:
"We are strange
and unbelonging. Yes. We are just enough/

of ourselves to catch the wind in our feathers,
and fly so perfectly away.

"Enter without knocking, hard-working ant.". "This Morning" by Charles Simic
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/02/08/this-morning-by-charles-simic/

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"You visit the same tailors the mourners do,"... enjoyed :)

"Finding a new poet" - Linda Pastan; A New Poet... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2008/01/29/a-new-poet-by-linda-pastan/

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"Finding a new poet" . "Finding a new poet/is like finding a new wildflower/out in the woods." Charming and simple! Enjoyed!

"For some semitropical reason'."Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy" byThomas Lux
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2012/01/28/tarantulas-on-the-lifebuoy-by-thomas-lux/

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A touching/tender poem of humanity... enjoyed :)

"Good night! good night! - the golden day" - Pamela S. Vining, (J. C. Yule); Till To-Morrow... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/pamela-s-vining/till-to-morrow-34445

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Lovely good night poem. Reminded me of this German lullaby (in German and English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTh-uWq1oOo

"Hail mighty Poet, mighty Painter too,". "To N. Tate, Esq; on his Poem on the Queen's Picture, Drawn by Closterman" by Sarah Fyge Egerton.
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/pse03-w0550.shtml

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Enjoyed the lullaby :)

An homage of an homage to the queen :)

"I know. I know." - Charles Bukowski; My Cats... https://allpoetry.com/poem/14326886-My-Cats-by-Charles-Bukowski

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Sorry! I was quite sure I had answered it.

Aaaaiiiii!Loved Bukowskis cat poem!

"January finally drags into February and one fumbles with"."Paradise" by Louis Jenkins
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2013/02/01/paradise-by-louis-jenkins/

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Wonderful poem: "Some days you want to stay in bed / with the covers over your head and dream of paradise." My idea of paradise :)

"Knowest thou not him the poet sings," - Thomas Moore; The Limbo Of Lost Reputations. A Dream... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/thomas-moore/limbo-of-lost-reputations-a-dream-27241

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re: Lol, specially if it's cold.

Reminds me a bit of the "Inferno" in Dante´s "Divine Comedy". Enjoyed!
"What is lost here, is gathered there." ARIOSTO.(Google translation).
Would be fine if it were true of ones memory. Looking for mine for quite a while.


"Life is short, though I keep this from my children.".Good Bones" by Maggie Smith
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2021/04/04/good-bones-by-maggie-smith/

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Too real... enjoyed :)

"MAN above himself looks down upon" - Elise Pumpelly Cabot; Arizona... https://poems.one/poem/elise-pumpelly-cabot-arizona

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What is this? Walt Whitman in "Waste Land" mood? Vastness of form and content.

"New eyes each year"."New eyes each year" by Philip Larkin
https://www.poetrycat.com/philip-larkin/new-eyes-each-year

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Browser issues again with LitNet: Bad page rendering and keeps signing me out... using Safari for Windows once more... :)

Lol...

Enjoyed Larkin's brief poem :)

"One face looks out from all his canvasses," - Christina Rossetti; 'In An Artist's Studio'... https://eliteskills.com/c/9750

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Enjoyed CR´s poem so much: "Not as she is, but as she fills his dream.". Reality against phantasy; Poem against painting.

"Pain froze you, for years—and fear—leaving scars."."The Ghazal of What Hurt" by Peter Cole
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2012/08/24/the-ghazal-of-what-hurt-by-peter-cole/

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Ah, back to Opera Browser again :)

Complex poem. "The pain was never replaced, nor was it quite erased. / It’s memory now"... enjoyed :)

"Queen Hilda rode along the lines" - Henry Lawson; Queen Hilda of Virland
Henry Lawson... https://www.poetry.com/poem/17893/queen-hilda-of-virland

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Glad Opera works for you. If it doesn't there is always Duck Duck
Didn't find an analysis for Peter Cole's ghazal.
Enjoyed the modern critical take on Queen Hilda . Found a complete version of the poem +a sort analysis:
https://allpoetry.com/Queen-Hilda-of-Virland

"Rebuked, she turned and ran"."Portrait of a Figure near Water" by Jane Kenyon
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/10/02/portrait-of-a-figure-near-water-by-jane-kenyon/

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Thanks for the analysis! Didn't notice the poem was incomplete, lol.

Such a poem... the emotion is palpable... enjoyed very much :)

"Suddenly I remember the holes," - Stephen Berg; The Holes... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2005/11/29/the-holes-by-stephen-berg

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Very original take. Aren't the holes the beginning and the end of all beings?

"Tenderness and rot"."Tenderness and Rot by Kay Ryan
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/04/01/tenderness-and-rot-by-kay-ryan/amp/

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re: holes - I hadn't thought of it that way... this is what touched me: "But I want the infinite man who sleeps / in my veins to rise".

T&R: the political aspects of the poem are obvious; the personal aspects a bit more ambiguous... one of my Daughter's brother-in-laws just passed on due to cancer, age 45 or so; service tomorrow. He tried to turn his life around at the end :) Enjoyed the poem.

"Unbind thee, love, unbind thee, love," - Thomas Moore; Unbind Thee, Love... https://tercul.com/en/works/unbind-thee-love-thomas-moore?content_language_code=en

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re: Sorry about your daughter's brother-in-law: 45 is so very young and cancer is a devastating illness.
T&R I hadn't thought about the political aspects.


" Uncle he says 'at 'way down in the sea"."Session With Uncle Sidney - II - Uncle Brightens Up" by James Whitcomb Riley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/james-whitcomb-riley/a-session-with-uncle-sidney-ii-uncle-brightens-up-29265

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Delightful vernacular poem :)

"verily everything that is lost will be" - Safia Elhillo; asmarani makes prayer... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2021/04/07/asmarani-makes-prayer-by-safia-elhillo/

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"asmarani makes prayer..."Interesting poem, shaped as a wound. Enjoyed.



"We live in a modern society. Husbands and wives don’t grow". "The Archipelago of Kisses" by Jeffrey McDaniel
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/01/23/the-archipelago-of-kisses-by-jeffrey-mcdaniel/

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Wow! Incredible poem :)

"Xola is your name so sweet," - Edward Kofi Louis; Xola... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=380792

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Enjoyed the poem. Astonished at each new "x" poem.

"You put on some new pants. I put"."You Think You Are Something Less Real Than You Are" by Wendy Xu
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2021/04/16/you-think-you-are-something-less-real-than-you-are-by-wendy-xu/amp/

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That was my last "x" poem...

Fanciful poem... I have no clue, lol... enjoyed :)

"Zimbabwe frightened you," - Gert Strydom; Zimbabwe frightened you... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=400458

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re: We were already flexibilizing the rules. Suggestion: Poet with name starting with "X" or simply jumping to "y".

re Wendy Xu:A general (not long) survey:
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2017/04/27/wendy-xu-plays-with-fragmented-language-in-phrasis/


"A heart that’s been broken"."A Heart That’s Been Broken" by Maureen Owen
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/07/22/a-heart-thats-been-broken-by-maureen-owen/

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re: We1... 'k

re: We2... now that makes sense, lol

Touching poem... enjoyed :)

"Beleaguered on all sides," - Captain Cur; Autumnal Equinox... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/autumnal-equinox-weymouth-bay/

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re We1 didn't understand...`k

Loved this sea poems :" view the world from these marvelous heights
where the hands of time lie still."

"Clear night, thumb-top of a moon, a back-lit sky."."Clear Night" by Charles Wright
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2018/06/22/clear-night-by-charles-wright/amp/

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Sorry, 'k or k = ok.

Enjoyed Charles' poem: "I want to be stretched, like music wrung from a dropped seed." :)

"Darkness: the rain sluiced down; the mire was deep;" - Siegfried Sassoon; The Redeemer... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-redeemer/

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Sasson, the great war poet, impressive. The poem reminded me of a German war song (lyrics translated):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1cKNcf1mpk.


"Even Eve, the only soul in all of time"."History" by Jennifer Michael Hecht
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/09/14/history-by-jennifer-michael-hecht/

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Somewhat somber but moving song... enjoyed :)

Hmmm... I might agree to disagree with the premise of the poem, but who am I ? The irony is that the owner of Read A Little Poetry's opening remarks lead in to the poem quite well. :)

"Fly swift, my light gazelle," - Thomas Moore; The Language Of Flowers... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/language-flowers-2

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re "History"-I have to agree that the Eve of the poem is not very like the biblical Eve

Enjoyed the delicate poem!


"Glad tidings hath my Saviour brought"."WRITTEN ON EASTER DAY." by Mary Alcock
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/pma99-w0040.shtml

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Inspired poem written on Easter... enjoyed :)

""Hurra! hurra!" I heard them say," - Thomas Moore; The Periwinkles And The Locusts. A Salmagundian Hymn... https://tercul.com/en/works/the-periwinkles-and-the-locusts-a-salmagundian-hym-thomas-moore?content_language_code=en

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"The Periwinkles And The Locusts." Much enjoyed! Very up to date, could have been written by Brazilian author Lima Barreto.

"It is portentous, and a thing of state"."Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight" by Vachel Lindsay
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/abraham-lincoln-walks-at-midnight/

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Lima Barreto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_Barreto... passed away so young; interesting writer. "Barreto adopted a more simple style in his books which was more accessible to a majority of the Brazilian people. This provoked an increasing number of criticisms against the author, who was persecuted by the Brazilian elite for his non-classical style."

"Lincoln": Enjoyed. Still up to date with the man of peace lamenting the current states of affairs.

"Joy comes and goes: hope ebbs and flows," - Matthew Arnold; To Fausta... https://www.poeticous.com/matthew-arnold/to-fausta

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Was astonished to learn that LB has a Wikipedia page in 11 languages.

Enjoyed Arnold's poem: the internal rhyme in the first verse of each strophe seems to give the poem the form of ebbing and flowing waves. But the content is sad and the poet resigned.

"karenina"."karenina" by Regina Elliott
https://www.poetry.com/poem/159037/karenina

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Enjoyed: "karenina, / in Luna's consoling / presence, / encourager, / steps lithe amidst / the stars. :)

"Lo! the wild rabbit, happy in the pride" - Ambrose Bierce; Aspiration... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/aspiration-14/

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"Aspiration..." A wise poem! Enjoyed!


This is not an usual poem, but I enjoyed that:

"Man who is a serious novel would like to hear from a woman who is a poem’ (classified"."Exchange of Letters" by Wendy Cope
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2012/04/28/exchange-of-letters-by-wendy-cope/

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Lololol ! Love the prologue poem too which is in answer to Cope's poem; guessing whom "M" is is prolly "Man", or perhaps another ? :)

"No, not more welcome the fairy numbers" - Thomas Moore; No, Not More Welcome... https://kalliope.org/en/text/moore2000082963

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T. seems to be the owner of the site, who maybe is also a poet. M? Man or?

Enjoyed Moore 's poem!

"oh antic God"."oh antic God" by Lucille Clifton
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/oh-antic-god/

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Sweet poem. Enjoyed :)

"paper umbrellas" - Kobayashi Issa; paper umbrellas... http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/3521/paper-umbrellas.html

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Sadly Poetry Atlas, which I used a lot lately, has ceased to exibit the poems to me about two weeks ago, alleging copyright. I tried to find the haiku elsewhere but wasn´t successful.

Poem by a poet with surname starting with "Q"(with analysis).
"When I love". "When I Love" by Nizar Qabbani
https://allpoetry.com/When-I-Love

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"Issa’s original Japanese haiku are in the public domain, but not most modern English translations. " - Quora post... ROFL !!!!!!!!

Here's the original version and the website I found it on, if you can access it of course; if not maybe use google translation ?

.傘の雫ながらにかすみかな
karakasa no shizuku nagara ni kasumi kana
... http://haikuguy.com/issa/searchenglishjapanese2.php

Wonderful treatise on love... Enjoyed :)

"Repeat, O, Muse! the virtuous song" - Ann Batten Cristall; Repeat, O, Muse! ... https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/cac95-w0140.shtml

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Thanks for the link, tailor!

Enjoyed the introductory poem!

"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,"."Funeral Blues" by W.H. Auden
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2005/10/04/funeral-blues-by-w-h-auden/amp/

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An elegy poem... found an analysis here: https://poemanalysis.com/w-h-auden/funeral-blues/ Enjoyed :)

"The screaming, hairy, armadillo" – Liz Brownlee; Hairy Screaming Armadillo... https://lizbrownleepoet.com/2015/04/28/x-is-for-xenarthra-armadillos/

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Enjoyed the analysis. Didn´t know that the poem was so famous.

Aaaaaiiiiiiii! Enjoyed!

Here in Brazil we have a very small sort of armadillo or insect like armadillo, the pill bug (tatu bolinha). When I was a kid, we had them in the garden. If one pokes them, they roll instantly up into a ball to protect themselves.
https://www.google.com/search?q=tatu+bolinha+video&oq=tatu+bolinha+video&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRg9MgYIAhAuGE DSAQkxMjM1NGowajCoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f8d7d8c2,vid:zUt0exyMO_A,st:0

"Under an oak-tree in a".The Rue-Anemone by Madison Julius Cawein
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/madison-julius-cawein

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Lol, we called pill bugs Rollie Pollies :) Enjoyed the video... would love to be sitting in a creek right now.

Fanciful Poem... found it here: https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/madison-julius-cawein/rue-anemone-11678...Enjoyed ! "Deep in the boscage, kneeling on one knee, / Watching the wandered Oread draw near, / Her wild heart beating like a honey-bee / Within a rose." :)

As an aside, 2-troublesome oaks, though mighty with shade!, were removed the other day from near my bedroom at my daughter's insistence... now my air conditioner can't keep up with the heat :(

"Vision of light, above triumphal car" - Margaret Steele Anderson; Beatrice... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/margaret-steele-anderson/beatrice-37256

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Sorry about the wrong link! - Your oaks probably represented danger. But it is sad: no shadow and it will take many years for new trees to grow.

Enjoyed this poem about Dante's Beatrice.

"Which is bigger,” he asks me, “the ocean or sky,”."Talking To My Son Before Sleep" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2012/03/22/talking-to-my-son-before-sleep-by-rosemerry-wahtola-trommer/amp/

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"This is the way I want to love: in an idiom stronger / than tongues, I want to love in the way that tides pull / and release, like the moon which holds without touch,"... incredible poetry! :)

“If I were on fire" - Xiomara Batista/Elizabeth Acevedo; Things You Think About in the Split Second Your Notebook is Burning... https://archive.bookstr.com/article/five-poems-to-read-from-the-poet-x-novel/

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Enjoyed the dramatic questioning of the poem:"Things You Think About in the Split Second Your Notebook is Burning...".

"You do not have to be good."."Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2010/04/28/wild-geese-by-mary-oliver/

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Enjoyed Mary's poem immensely :)

"Zenyatta..." - Lawrence S. Pertillar; Zenyatta
... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=447060

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Loved this poem about a race horse with personality!

"Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations."."Flying at Night" by Ted Kooser
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2005/09/16/flying-at-night-by-ted-kooser/

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"Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies / like a snowflake falling on water. " Wonderful short poem :)

"Bursa Prison" - Nazim Hikmet; Letter To My Wife... https://www.poetrycat.com/nazim-hikmet/letter-to-my-wife

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"Letter to my wife".Wonderfully moving poem. A bit more about the poet,who had a very eventful life: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A2z%C4%B1m_Hikmet

"CLarissa blest with ev'ry Grace,"."THE RIVAL NYMPHS." A TALE .by Charlotte Lennox (née Ramsay)
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o5247-w0020.shtml

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Thanks for the wiki - Nazim Hikmet: Quite an accomplished poet... I remember Seeger's and The Byrds recordings of Where Have All the Flowers Gone fondly and have heard them often... had no clue of its origin :)

Ahhhhh, I need the sequel :) An interesting tragedy/comedy (I can't decide)... Enjoyed !

"Drunk with friends, unaware that it is almost dusk." - Li Bai; Amusing Myself... https://www.writtenchinese.com/five-examples-of-chinese-poetry-with-english-translations/

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Enjoyed this "drunken" nature drenched poem.

"Evening falls on the smoky walls,". "Ballad of the Londoner" by James Elroy Flecker
https://englishverse.com/poems/ballad_of_the_londoner

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Cute poem... enjoyed :)

"Far away — far away —" - Edgar Allan Poe; The Valley Nis... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2008/01/28/the-valley-nis-by-edgar-allan-poe/

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""The Valley Nis". Beautiful poem!


"Green Buddhas"."Watermelons" by Charles Simic
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/02/26/watermelons-by-charles-simic/amp/

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Wow ! What a minimalist gem !!! Loved it :)

"How happy and still is the earth" - Deepak Kumar Pattaanayak; How happy and still is the earth... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/how-happy-is-our-earth/

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Impressive poem on the destruction of the planet.

"I ask them to take a poem"."Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2012/01/07/introduction-to-poetry-by-billy-collins/

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A wonderful poem: "They begin beating it with a hose / to find out what it really means."... Lol, guilty sometimes. Enjoyed :)

""Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried," - Lewis Carroll; Fit the First: The Landing... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/lewis-carroll/fit-the-first-the-landing-1332

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Enjoyed the Lewis Carroll poem!


"King Cole he reigned in Aureoland"."King Cole" by George MacDonald
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/george-macdonald/king-cole-25230

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Enjoyed the parable poem :)

"Last night at black midnight I woke with a cry," - Vachel Lindsay; The Ghosts of the Buffaloes... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/vachel_lindsay/poems/19208

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"The Ghosts of the Buffaloes..".Impressive poem.I thought it was a recent poem but Lindsay died nearly hundred years ago. It reminded me of the destruction the floods made in the south of Brazil during May.

"Morning at last: there in the snow"."Morning At Last: There in the Snow" by Philip Larkin
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2010/11/22/morning-at-last-there-in-the-snow-by-philip-larkin/

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Enjoyed very much ! :)

"Nature rarer uses yellow" - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson; Nature Rarer Uses Yellow... https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/xxxi-nature-rarer-uses-yellow-by-emily-dickinson/

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Enjoyed Emily's poem. Found an analysis of it:
https://dickinsonblog2019.blogspot.com/2019/04/nature-rarer-uses-yellow.html

"Out of the night that covers me,"."Invictus" by William Ernest Henley
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/invictus/ (some additional information in the bio).

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Enjoyed The analysis :)

Enjoyed: "I am the master of my fate, / I am the captain of my soul." :)

"Paul Jannes was working very late,"- Amy Lowell; The Shadow... http://www.blackcatpoems.com/l/the_shadow.html

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Intense poem about platonic love. And the descriptions are wonderful. Enjoyed!

"There is still the wind that I remember"."Street in Agrigentum" by Salvatore Quasimodo
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/salvatore_quasimodo/poems/22448

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Liked the poem very much :) an analysis here: https://allpoetry.com/Street-in-Agrigentum

"Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is" - Walt Whitman; Roaming In Thought... https://whitmanarchive.org/item/ppp.00707_00833

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Enjoyed the analysis!

Don't agree with Walt Withman-I think things are much more mixed up.

"sky of stars".haiku (sky of stars) by Oaklove67
https://allpoetry.com/poem/14353164-haiku-----sky-of-stars--by-Oaklove67

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Delightful haiku :) Enjoyed!

"Tell me, kind Seer, I pray thee," - Thomas Moore; The Leaf And The Fountain... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/thomas-moore/leaf-and-the-fountain-26988

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Charming and so poetic ballad about unrequited love! :)

"ubuntu"."Ubuntu" by Chris Rem.
https://www.poetry.com/poem/89737/ubuntu

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Thoughtful virtue poem: "As our tin cans share a cord."... enjoyed this way of showing communication in this child-like way :)

"Vague expressions of directed hatred," - Lawrence S. Pertillar; Vague Expressions... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=445258

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"Vague Expressions...".A valid picture of our time.

"When the Regime commanded that books with harmful knowledge."."The Burning of The Books" by Bertolt Brecht
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2005/09/22/the-burning-of-the-books-by-bertolt-brecht/

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"Burn me!"... enjoyed :)

"As a rule when everything is finished" - Xi Chuan; Neruda's Portrait... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/neruda-s-portrait/

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Charming poem from a poet about another poet from a very different landscape. Neruda is a part of Xi's room and Xi's life.

"Your letter unfolds and unfolds forever.". "Letter Smuggled In A Fish" by Yuan Chen
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/08/21/letter-smuggled-in-a-fish-by-yuan-chen/amp/

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Touching poem... enjoyed very much :)

"Zambia shall be free!" - Edward Kofi Louis; Zambia Shall Be Free... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=380975

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Congrats for the "Z" poem and I hope Zambia gets free in more ways than one.

"A neighbourhood."."This Moment" by Eavan Boland
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2005/12/11/this-moment-by-eavan-boland/

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A wonderful moment :) Enjoyed.

"Blaze as unknowable drift" - Will Alexander; Fragment: Blaze as Unknowable Drift... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/158834/fragment-blaze-as-unknowable-drift

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Blazing, cosmic poem.


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

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Enjoyed: "The child was a girl, the girl is a woman; the shift / is subtle and absolute, worn like a gift." Wonderful :)

"Did you hear about the rose that grew" - Tupac Shakur; The Rose That Grew From Concrete... https://allpoetry.com/The-Rose-That-Grew-From-Concrete

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Enjoyed this delicate poem about the rose growing in a crack of concrete :)

"Even in this sharp weather there are lovers everywhere"."Opposing Forces" by Eamon Grennan
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2009/01/01/opposing-forces-by-eamon-grennan/

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Enjoyed this wintery tone: "taking the freezing air in and letting it out / as song, as if this frigid enterprise were all joy, / nothing to be afraid of." :)

"For those of us who live at the shoreline" - Audre Lorde; A Litany for Survival... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2016/04/25/a-litany-for-survival-by-audre-lorde/

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A Litany of Survival-"For all of us/this instant and this triumph/We were never meant to survive."-All those fears sound so true.

"Give me tonight to be inconsolable."."Imagine Sisyphus Happy" by Nicole Sealey
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2021/04/03/imagine-sisyphus-happy-by-nicole-sealey/amp/

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Enjoyed :) Found an analysis and interview that helped immensely... https://brooklynpoets.org/community/poet/nicole-sealey

"He lies like a cucumber" - Deepak Kumar Pattaanayak; Compensation... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/compensation-29/

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Beautiful girl, interesting interview that opens windows, doors and mirrors. After the interview the poem reads differently. But lol, Nicole Sealey didn´t want to write a word can poem.

"If you run for too long, you"."Today I Am Full of Birds" by Lyz Soto
https://poets.org/poem/today-i-am-full-birds

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re: word can poem... gave me a chuckle too. Will look for more of her poetry :)

Sad poem... enjoyed very much. Found this on Hawaii's vanished birds: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-books/2024/03/07/the-disappearing-birds-of-hawaii/#:~:text=Perhaps%20the%20most%20devastating%20intr oduction,in%20the%20early%20twentieth%20century. A lesson to be learned.

"Just Once! Oh least Request!" - Emily Dickinson; Just Once! Oh least Request!... https://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.com/2013/07/just-once-oh-least-request.html

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Good article. But I'm afraid that the next wave of destruction will affect a great quantity of humans too. And it seems to have started already. Speaking of it, winter has started already and there are Brazilian capitals with temperatures about 36 and 38 grades C. And the forecast is that the summer in the north half of the sphere may reach 50 grades. You probably will have to do something to protect family and pets.

Enjoyed the new riddle of E D. Interesting discussion in the comments: a gift is turned in an intense request for acceptance.

"Kelly the Ranger half opened an eye". "Kelly's Conversion" by Barcroft Boake
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/barcroft-boake/kellys-conversion-6413

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A redemptive hero... enjoyed :)

"Like pensive cattle, lying on the sands," - Charles Baudelaire; Femmes Damn es... https://allpoetry.com/Femmes-Damnes

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Hope you had a restful night!

"Measure the walls. Count the ribs. Notch the long days"."Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale" by Dan Albergotti
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2016/03/17/things-to-do-in-the-belly-of-the-whale-by-dan-albergotti/amp/

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Restful night... rarely.

Thankfulness?... I practice as much as possible. "Dream of the beach."... it's all I can do; even when I was in Monterrey I never saw the ocean nor the beach... too hurried here and there and having to get home (sigh).

"Nature centres into balls," - Ralph Waldo Emerson; Circles... https://emersoncentral.com/texts/essays-first-series/circles/

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Enjoyed! Here is the whole article, Emerson's language is very beautiful:https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Femersoncentral.com%2Febook%2FCir cles.pdf&psig=AOvVaw3bHaaTuM42Tj9uOtZqjicm&ust=1719275357513000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CAQQn5wMahcKEwig4p75_fKGAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQBA

"O, how I faint when I of you do write,"."Sonnet 80" by William Shakespeare
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2007/10/09/sonnet-80-by-william-shakespeare/amp/

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RWE: Incredible article... "I am God / in nature; I am a weed by the wall."...

From Wikipedia: "The Poet (essay): For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poet_(essay)

John Muir on Emerson: “Emerson was the most serene, majestic, sequoia-like soul I ever met. His smile was as sweet and calm as morning light on Mountains. There was a wonderful charm in his presence; his smile, serene eye, his voice, his manner, were all sensed at once by everybody. I felt here was a man I had been seeking. There Sierra, I was sure, wanted to see him, and he must not go before gathering them an interview! A tremendous sincerity was his. He was as sincere as the trees, his eye sincere as the sun.”... https://www.ralphwaldoemersonhouse.org/blog-travel

Shakespeare: Wonderful sonnet; a short analysis... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_80

"Passion impels me, Love escorts and leads," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet CLXXVI. Voglia mi sprona; Amor mi guida e scorge. / He Describes His State, Specifying the Date of His Attachment.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/sonnet-clxxvi

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RWE-A very poetic essay about poetry. John Muir's comment is also a poem in prose.

Thanks also for the helpful analysis. I didn't know there was a rivalry between two poets.
I prefer Wollaston's translation of Petrarch.

"Qui vive? Who passes by up there?""Qui vive?" by Grace Ellery Channing-Stetson
https://allpoetry.com/Grace_Ellery_Channing-Stetson

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Q poem; Wonderful find! Enjoyed Grace's poem: "What wind on a windless night is this, / That breathes as light as a lover's kiss," :)

"Ribbons of the year" - Emily Dickinson; Ribbons of the year... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogspot.com/2016/01/ribbons-of-year-vanity-fair.html

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Enjoyed this poem about vanity. Read the novel many years ago.

"She is sixty. She lives"."The Greatest Love" by Anna Swir.Translated by Czeslaw Milosw
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/10/15/the-greatest-love-by-anna-swir/amp/

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Enjoyed :) ... a brief analysis: https://allpoetry.com/The-Greatest-Love

"to a young child" - Gerard Manley Hopkins; Spring & Fall... https://eliteskills.com/c/4388

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Enjoyed this analysis. Very much to the point. I hope (ai) doesn´t mean that the analysis was done by AI.

Spring and Fall Great poem, enjoyed both analyses doing justice to the delicate themes.

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

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AI? No idea... possibly; their Home page is down (there are no requests for cat pictures).

Enjoyed the Sandburg poem :) found this analysis: https://poemanalysis.com/carl-sandburg/under-the-harvest-moon/

"VENUS, Queen of tender Fires," - Lennox, Charlotte; A HYMN to VENUS, IN IMITATION of SAPHO... https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o5247-w0040.shtml

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Enjoyed the Sandburg poem analysis!

I have the feeling that 18 century verse is very disciplined even when depicting passion or grief.

"WANTON droll, whose harmless play"."The Kitten" by Joanna Baillie
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/bjb18-w0320.shtml

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A delightsome cat poesy... Loved it! :)

"In water-caltrop raiment clad, with belt of floating heart," - Lu Xun (translated by J.E. Kowallis); Lotus Seedpod Men... http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/luxun-scp.html

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A wonderful poem is this one by Lu Xun. How moral aspects are presented with charm. And J.E. Kowallis' translation and presentation are a work of love!:)

"You can"."Sunrise' by Mary Oliver
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2010/12/25/sunrise-by-mary-oliver/

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I always enjoy Mary Oliver's poetry, this one is no different. Fairly straightforward but I found these analyses: https://poemanalysis.com/mary-oliver/morning-poem/

"zany zebras zoom" - Melissa Yeagle; Zany Zebras... https://allpoetry.com/poem/17581644-Zany-Zebras-by-Melissa-Yeagle

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Good analyses. Found them too but they presented a subscription wall.

"A slower pace, a somewhat slower pace will do."."Your Pilgrimage" by Ko Un
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2013/03/01/your-pilgrimage-by-ko-un/amp/

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Enjoyed :)

"Brave young lady," - Aliyah Ibrahim; Brave young Lady.... https://allpoetry.com/poem/17748627-Brave-young-Lady.-by-Aliyah-Ib

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Forgot to compliment the zany zebras of post #1721 on their zweetnezz!

"Brave Young Lady"- Beautiful and sad poem.he poem seems to be famous but I could not find out who was the "brave young lady" in real life.

"Calm on the breast of"."The Well Of Loch Maree" by John Greenleaf Whittier
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-greenleaf-whittier/well-of-loch-maree-6167

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re:"Brave Young Lady" - nor could I, nor anything definitive about the poet other than poetry and an active status. Did find an eye raiser dated to 1951 that was rather amusing about a woman who received a divorce because her husband would read Shakespeare aloud, lol.

The well: "And blest is he who on his way / That fount of healing findeth!" Interesting how the holy font is now "Within, a Druid's mound is seen, / Set round with stony warders;" Enjoyed :)

"Dreaming of one day being as fearless as a mango." - Chen Chen; Self-Portrait... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/self-portrait-so-much-potential

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Enjoyed this poem very much, the original first line, the openess of the young poet.

"Every few minutes, he wants"."Boy and Egg" by Naomi Shihab Nye
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/boy-and-egg/

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Loved this tender poem: "riveted to the secret of birds" :)

"From blossoms comes" - Li-Young Lee; From Blossoms... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2020/12/19/from-blossoms-by-li-young-lee/

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Wonderful poem. A positive outcome after all the suffering exposed in the introduction by the blogger.

"Give me a cottage". "Recreation." by W. M. MacKeracher
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/w-m-mackeracher/recreation-36793

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I'm thinking recreation has to do with gardening :) Enjoyed.

"Hills where once my love and I" - William Bliss Carman; A Hill Song... https://www.poetrycat.com/william-bliss-carman/a-hill-song

[Danik 2016]

I don't know in English. In Portuguese "Recreação" is usually a program of holiday activities and games one does with a group of people, children or tourists in a hotel, for example.

Hill Song-Nostalgic. Enjoyed but it made me sad too.

"I pruned the rosebush at precisely"."Meditation Beside a Poem" by Adelia Prado, 88 and one of the greatest living Brazilian poets
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2008/01/01/four-poems-prado/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%C3%A9lia_Prado

[tailor STATELY]

Wonderful poem and article; found this... https://www.peacepartners.co.uk/writings-for-peace/meditation-beside-a-poem Will have to read more of her poetry :)

"John Gilpin was a citizen" - Cowper, William; THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN, SHEWING HOW HE WENT FARTHER THAN HE INTENDED AND CAME SAFE HOME AGAIN... https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o3795-w0090.shtml

[Danik 2016]

re: Adélia Prado- I hope there will be several good translations of her work, specially her poetry. After being forgoten for decades she von two important awards in an interval of five days. The Machado de Assis (not mentioned in the English Wikipedia page) and the Camões (the most important prize in Portuguese spoken Literature)
Here are a few poems:https://www.recoveringwords.com/site/a-god-who-eats-words-devotional-poems-of-adelia-prado

LOLLolIol Wonderful poem. And I thought 18 C was a serious age!

"KIND companion of my youth".VERSES SENT BY LORD MELCOMBE TO DR. YOUNG, NOT LONG BEFORE HIS LORDSHIP'S DEATH. by
George Bubb Dodington, Baron Melcombe
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o4984-w0680.shtml

[tailor STATELY]

From your link on Prado: Delightful - "You do not look for poetry. Poetry looks for you. Poetry happens to whoever is writing it. And then it is rewritten inside the reader, whose vision will remain forever transformed." And another from one of her poems: "You could worship tufts of grass, sand, / and not discover where oboes come from." :)

Enjoyed GBD, BM's poem :)

"Low, like another's, lies the laurelled head:" - William Watson; Lachrymæ Musarum... https://allpoetry.com/Lachrym-Musarum

[Danik 2016]

re: I thought you would like A P.

WW-Good but sad poem. A lol curiosity:the site invites one to follow the poet who died in 1935.

"My apologies to chance for calling it necessity".",Under One Small Star" by Wisława Szymborska
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/09/16/under-one-small-star-by-wislawa-szymborska/amp/

[tailor STATELY]

WW - lol

WS - To feel to apologize for one's existence as one feels the burdens of all the world a most empathic plea.... enjoyed.

"Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries," - Sylvia Plath; Blackberrying... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/blackberrying

[Danik 2016]

SP-Loneliness, nature and blackberries. As usual,something uncanny in the description of the berries.

"O DONALD! ye are just the man"."O DONALD! Ye Are Just The Man" by Susanna Blemire
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/bsb18-w0840.shtml

[tailor STATELY]

After the honeymoon; found an analysis here... https://allpoetry.com/O-Donald!-Ye-Are-Just-The-Man
... enjoyed.

"Purple—is fashionable twice—" - Emily Dickinson; Purple—is fashionable twice... https://allpoetry.com/Purpleis-fashionable-twice

[Danik 2016]

Good analysis, but I am avoiding a bit analysis if the poem isn't difficult. One gets hesitant in forming a personal opinion.
Just registered at All Poetry for free, to be able to access the complete lists of poems from a poet. I think it might interest you as one is very much encouraged to publish an own poem. It might be something for you, you might publish as taylor STATELY as you do here and you probably would get analises and followers.

Enjoyed this minimalistic poem by ED!

"Since I was young I have worn gorgeous dress"."Crossing The River " by Qu Yuan
https://allpoetry.com/poem/15083733-Crossing-The-River--by-Qu-Yuan

[tailor STATELY]

Lol... my personal analyses of poetry are usually off.

re: All Poetry - Just might :)

Enjoyed :)

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

[Danik 2016]

Certainly not! :)

Glad you found a e.e. cummings poem. They´ve been taken out of several sites:
"anguish
and dream-send is
hushed
in

moan-loll where
night gathers
morte carved smiles" Impressive.

Not an analysis but an informative article about e.e. cummings Modernism:
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2005/03/the-rebellion-of-ee-cumm-html

"So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years—"from East Coker" by T.S. Eliot
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2018/01/03/east-coker-by-t-s-eliot/

[tailor STATELY]

ee: Good find... Lol "downbringing,". Still quite modern as shown in your example :)

Enjoyed his poem! "Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt / Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure" I have an assignment for 7/18/2024 for our Thursday at Two poetry group for a "found" poem and am now leaning toward deconstructing this poem :)

"The east wind rises day and night." - Chen Daofu or Chen Chun; Java sparrow and magnolia... https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1910-0614-0-24

[Danik 2016]

ee. He reminds me of the Brazilian modernists that wanted to change the Portuguese language

Enjoyed so much this ilustrated poem. Very delicate!

"Upon a time a neighing steed,"."FABLE [43] XLIII.The Council of Horses by John Gay
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/ojg27-w0440.shtml

[tailor STATELY]

A sad plight being a horse :(

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

[Danik 2016]

Sarah Helen Whitman-A very romantic 19C lady!

"We all have the same little bones in our foot"."About Standing (in Kinship)" by Kimberly Blaeser
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/about-standing-in-kinship/

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Enjoyed the parallelism in the poem (and learned about feet) :)

"X marks the spot - teeny fingers tap colors." - Kim Rodrigues; Xylophone... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/xylophone_1543317

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the atmosphere of sounds and colors of "Xylophone"!
"your life is your life"."The Laughing Heart" by Charles Bukowski
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/05/16/the-laughing-heart-by-charles-bukowski/amp/

[tailor STATELY]

Upbeat poem about overcoming... whatever, enjoyed :)

on further review...

"Zachary Zebra was full of zest! He zoomed across the room." - Kay Hastings ??; Zachary, the ‘Zany’ Zebra... https://smartypantsmagazineforkids.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/zachary-the-e28098zanye28099-zebra.pdf

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed this zesty and zany zebra!

"At times my life suddenly opens its eyes in the dark."Kyrie" by Tomas Tranströmer
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2013/02/27/kyrie-by-tomas-transtromer/amp/

[tailor STATELY]

Our poetry host: "Yesterday was— / Perhaps it’s better not talk to about it."

Kyrie: Enjoyed... I read the full transcript of an analysis I found, here is a snippet: "The poem “Kyrie” written by Tomas Transtromer, describes how the speaker feels about his life. He acts very pessimistic towards his life and gives an aura of being helpless and hopeless. Despite " a feeling of masses of people pushing," the speaker says, "no one sees me." Transtromer’s description says that he can relate to those looking for miracles, for he was once like them, but now knows better." from https://prezi.com/tfsxpugrximo/at-times-my-life-suddenly-opens-its-eyes-in-the-dark/#:~:text=The%20poet%20describes%20how%20he,needs%2 0in%20the%20right%20time.

"Break me my bounds, and let me fly" - Paul Laurence Dunbar; A Career... https://allpoetry.com/A-Career

[Danik 2016]

re:Thanks for the analysis, tailor.

"A Career..." Beautiful, but sad poem!

"COME, rosy Health, celestial maid," "COME, rosy Health, celestial maid," by Isaac Hawkins Browne
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o4986-w0510.shtml