Alphabetical Poem First Lines [Archive] - Page 8

tailor STATELY

07-10-2024, 05:35 PM

Very evocative images! "The ruby neon of the liquor store sign." reminds me of my first job while in high school circa 1971 employed at a local liquor store. One of my jobs was to change the outdoor/roof display for what was on sale in large letters/numbers and one day the owner asked me to put "(my name) works here" as the sole message. I have a slide (remember those?) still somewhere of a photo taken... kinda silly I guess. Can't relate to the ending lines including "a needle slipped into your vein" but it says something about the protagonist's environment.... Enjoyed !

"Deeply morbid deeply morbid was the girl who typed the letters" - Stevie Smith; Deeply Morbid... https://allpoetry.com/Deeply-Morbid

Danik 2016

07-10-2024, 09:07 PM

It seems that your employer was making you a homage. Probably your arrangements were imaginative and attractive.

Deeply morbid is not so deeply morbid, because saved by art and playful repetition.

""ecco a letter starting"dearest we""."Ecco A Letter Starting" by e.e Cummings
https://www.poetryverse.com/e-e-cummings-poems/ecco-letter-starting

tailor STATELY

07-11-2024, 04:43 AM

He had me at "ecco"... lol. A "moon maiden" with her silver shoes... asking "her" to accept his advances???... here's something (lol)... https://allpoetry.com/ecco-a-letter-starting Enjoyed :)

"From routine that deafly eats away" - Babette Deutch; Visit to the Zoo...
https://pickmeuppoetry.org/visit-to-the-zoo-by-babette-deutch/

Danik 2016

07-11-2024, 09:48 AM

lol. e.e showing that he is modern.

Enjoyed the analysis!

Wonderful poem! Loved the animal descriptions. Not wonderful ads trying to interfere with the reading

"Give all to love;" "Give All to Love By Ralph Waldo Emerson
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/search/?type=poem

tailor STATELY

07-11-2024, 03:07 PM

A bit dated but otherwise wonderful... interesting warning: "When half-gods go, /The gods arrive." Enjoyed :)

"Henry the first, surnamed "Beauclare," - Marriott Edgar; Queen Matilda... https://www.poetry.com/poem/26575/queen-matilda

Danik 2016

07-11-2024, 11:52 PM

Lol. Seems the poet is poking fun at the English royalty.
"It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men.""GENERAL, YOUR TANK IS A POWERFUL VEHICLE" by Berthold Brecht
https://allpoetry.com/From-A-German-War-Primer

tailor STATELY

07-12-2024, 03:42 AM

A lot to take in for this/these poem(s)... resorted to wikipedia for a history lesson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic A very somber take on the times.

"Jump jump jump Jump away" - Kate Greenaway; The Little Jumping Girls... https://allpoetry.com/The-Little-Jumping-Girls

Danik 2016

07-12-2024, 02:40 PM

BB: Yes it was crowned by the Nazi period. One anecdote my father told about the hyperinflation. His family lived in a rented house. My grandfather used to send the money of the rent per post. At a certain point he started to bring the money personally to his landlord. The stamp had become more expensive than the rent itself.

Enjoyed this charming Victorian jumping poem and the subsequent analysis. The author seems to have had a lot of empathy about how children feel and think.

"Kashmir shrinks into my mailbox,"Postcard from Kashmir" by Agha Shahid Ali
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2007/04/09/postcards/

tailor STATELY

07-12-2024, 03:49 PM

re: BB... Wow!

Enjoyed... I need to get some postcards and surprise the recipients :)

"Love is sharper than stones or sticks;" - Dorothy Parker; Ballade Of Unfortunate Mammals... https://pickmeuppoetry.org/ballade-of-unfortunate-mammals-by-dorothy-parker/

Danik 2016

07-12-2024, 10:37 PM

Lol! Poor Mammals!

"My child,". ""A Mother's Love" by Line Gauthier

Source: https://pickmeuppoetry.org/a-mothers-love-by-line-gauthier/

tailor STATELY

07-13-2024, 03:39 AM

Sweet poem :) Enjoyed.

"Never did sculptor's dream unfold," - Ralph W. Emerson; Sonnet Of Michel Angelo Buonarotti... https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/BAD1982.0001.001/1:8.2.1?rgn=div3;view=fulltext;q1=Boston+Tea+Party %25

Danik 2016

07-13-2024, 09:24 AM

The link of the poem didn´t open , but found it here:https://www.readbookonline.org/readOnLine/7535/
Very interesting poem: The dead sculptor talking about a non existent statue of a cold lady.

"O GENTLE, gentle summer rain,"."INVOCATION TO RAIN IN SUMMER." by William Cox Bennett (1820-1895)
https://potw.org/archive/potw399.html

tailor STATELY

07-13-2024, 01:47 PM

Thanx for the other link for international use :)

Wonderful poem! :) Perfect timing for this poem, my oft invocation for these fire seasons :) ... 40 % chance of rain today... mostly cloudy with a high of 94° F (34.444° C)... hoping no lightning in our tinder dry hills.

"Pale genius roves alone," - Ralph W. Emerson; Pale Genius roves alone... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/pale-genius-roves-alone

Danik 2016

07-13-2024, 11:38 PM

re:Wish you luck with the weather and with politics.
" Queensland,” he heads his letters—that’s all: Billy of Queensland by Henry Lawson
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/billy-queensland

tailor STATELY

07-13-2024, 11:58 PM

Thanx re: weather. Politics...

"Come to think of it, I forgot—" (lol) Enjoyed :)

"Rich and rare were the gems she wore," - Thomas Moore; Rich and Rare Were the Gems She Wore... https://allpoetry.com/Rich-and-Rare-Were-the-Gems-She-Wore

Danik 2016

07-14-2024, 08:53 AM

You are welcome!

Lol! A bit out of date this poem! Erin or no Erin, no cautious woman walks around wearing gems (if she has any) or her virtue!

"SAW ye Johnny comin?" quo' she,"."A NEW VERSION OF AN OLD SCOTCH SONG" by Joanna Baillie

https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/bjb18-w0640.shtml

tailor STATELY

07-14-2024, 11:03 AM

Ah, perhaps a diary entry of a poem/song about a lass smitten wi' Johnny... perhaps the author... enjoyed :)

"ta" - ee cummings; Portraits III... https://cummings.ee/book/and/poem/portraits-iii/

Danik 2016

07-14-2024, 03:28 PM

re: :)

ee- Very creative, ingenious 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

tailor STATELY

07-14-2024, 03:44 PM

"All that the traffic will bear." - a dystopian motto of the future I learned from the David Falkayn
stories by Poul Anderson as a teen reader... didn't know it had a lengthy past, but dislike the reality faced now. Enjoyed the poem though :)

"Vibrant despair blowing out like sand paper from the soul" - David Cunha; Heightened flow state... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/4801708/heightened-flow-state/

Danik 2016

07-14-2024, 08:41 PM

re:So do I.
Interesting poem by this Portuguese poet you discovered.! :)

"We will call you “Agua” like the rivers and cool jugs."."Negotiations with a Volcano* by Naomi Shihab Nye
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2014/11/25/negotiations-with-a-volcano-by-naomi-shihab-nye/amp/

tailor STATELY

07-15-2024, 12:05 AM

Re: "Agua" - found this... https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=342100 One reads of the perils of living near volcanoes in Italy, Indonesia, Philippine's, Mexico, Washington state, etc. One tosses the dice and tempts the fates. Enjoyed the poem :)

"Xanadu may exude such percussive bliss" - Robert Gorelick; For X, Y, Z Word Poetry Contest... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/xylophone_1572513

Danik 2016

07-15-2024, 04:47 PM

re: And I thought "Agua" was an invented name, Interesting data: a volcano called water that spits fire.
Took a Covid shot today (every six months), but the needle got out and spilled the medicine. They gave a half doses then, so now I am half vaccinated. :(
You keep surprising me with X poems. Enjoyed this one with acrostic. (:

"Well, it’s too long for one thing "."Editing the Prairie by DON KERR"
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/editing-prairie

tailor STATELY

07-15-2024, 07:09 PM

Scary about the Covid shot. I'm perplexed on what the schedule should be, we no longer have/need Covid cards to keep track... my last, I believe, was in September when I also got my flu shot... prolly wait until this September for the next. There appears to be minimal Covid education going on where I live.

Another "W" poem... Oh my! What a descriptive critique, lol. Enjoyed :)

"X marks" - Sage Sweetwater; X Marks the Spot... https://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?id=362663&AuthorID=29292

Danik 2016

07-15-2024, 11:09 PM

re Covid: Covid shot seems OK, left arm hurting a bit where the vaccine was applied, but that was expected. Ì try to keep the record with the vaccine cards. Some control and regularity are necessary even if the rules vary from country too country.In your family you all recovered from covid and I think it was because of the shots. Vaccine policy may change if the Republicans win.
Poem more challenging than most X poems. Enjoyed.

"YE ancient patriarchs of the wood,".The FAIR RECLUSE. BALLAD VIII.(chunk) by Christopher Smart
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o4103-w0290.shtml

tailor STATELY

07-16-2024, 05:04 AM

Difficult poem to nail down. Found this:
'The Fair Recluse... is a 'gothic' poem which derives from Pope's 'Unfortunate Lady' and perhaps from Clarissa, and most of it might have been written by any poet of the period: but there is one quatrain which is peculiarly Smart's own—

Say, must these tears for ever flow,
Can I from patience learn content,
While solitude still nurses woe,
And leaves me leisure to repent?

The tone of these not very striking lines is of some importance in understanding Smart's poetry. It looks back to the earlier ['Eagle Confin'd in a College Court'] and forward to the Psalms. From his early Cambridge days Smart undoubtedly suffered from a feeling—later all too unhappily actualized—that he was being persecuted, and it is this sense of a personal situation which gives his verse a cryptic emphasis whenever the subject affords an opportunity. Another instance is to be found in 'Reason and Imagination'. By accepted canons of criticism this sort of thing should not happen: poetry is supposed to be a release from emotion, and I am not concerned to justify Smart's habit of identifying himself with a 'persecution situation' whenever he can. ... https://www.enotes.com/topics/christopher-smart/critical-essays/smart-christopher

"Zeitgeist is ripe" - Jinjah Man; Zeitgeist Is Ripe... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/zeitgeist-is-ripe/

Danik 2016

07-16-2024, 06:54 PM

About Smart https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/christopher-smart..

"And the days are not full enough". "And the days are not full enough" by Ezra Pound
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/04/21/and-the-days-are-not-full-enough-by-ezra-pound/

tailor STATELY

07-16-2024, 08:24 PM

Re: Smart - interesting and full life. "allowed to keep a cat ("For I am possessed of a cat, surpassing in beauty, from whom I take occasion to bless almighty God")" :)

E.P. - All to true... enjoyed :)

"Baudelaire considers you his brother," - Billy Collins; Dear Reader... https://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/dear_reader_20171

Danik 2016

07-16-2024, 11:13 PM

"Dear Reader". Enjoyed!Good user poem. Identified still another voice "and now I am summoning you up again,
attentive ghost, dark silent figure standing in the doorway of these words".

"Call him not heretic whose works attest.""By Their Works" by John Greenleaf Whittier
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-greenleaf-whittier/by-their-works-5877

tailor STATELY

07-17-2024, 12:35 AM

Re: "Dear Reader" - :)

"By Their Works" - Enjoyed this poem very much :)

"Damon the artisan (there is no one more" - C. P. Cavafy; Dionysus and His Crew... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=28626

Danik 2016

07-17-2024, 12:30 PM

Much enjoyed the poem! The description of the statue and then (unexpectedly) what it means for the artist himself.

Found this bio of Cavafy:https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/c-p-cavafy

"EACH picture was a painted memory"."An Hour in a Studio" by Richard Watson Gilder
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/gilder01.html#1

tailor STATELY

07-17-2024, 02:10 PM

Thank you for the bio of Cavafy... a self made poet :)

Incredible poem... The translation of "Ai nostri monti" took me on a journey including: a recording of Enrico Caruso and Louise Homer singing... https://playback.fm/charts/top-100-songs/video/1908/Enrico-Caruso--Louise-Homer-Il-Trovatore--Ai-Nostri-Monti-Home-to-Our-Mountains... Enjoyed immensely :) :) :)

"Full well I know that natural wisdom nought," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet LIII. Ben sapev' io che natural consiglio. / Fleeing From Love, He Falls Into the Hands of His Ministers.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/sonnet-liii

Danik 2016

07-17-2024, 09:57 PM

So the poem came very much to life. My mother used to say that Caruso was the greatest singer of her time. I heard little by him but enjoyed very much this song with Louise Homer.

Well, this Petrarca lyrical I has a talent for getting into difficult situations.

"God gave a loaf to every bird,"."Enough." by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/emily-elizabeth-dickinson/enough-13647

tailor STATELY

07-18-2024, 01:37 AM

I watch youtube videos by "The Charismatic Voice" where an opera singer reacts and dissects the voice techniques of lead singers and music of rock that she is introduced to by her audience... quite entertaining actually; she is enamored with Pavarotti's voice when it comes to operatic tenors, and Caruso aside I have to agree.

Petrarca never fails to surprise... much like Schiller in that respect.

Have I said how much I love dear Emily's poetry ? Delightful poem :)

"Hunter was happy" - Roger Turner; Hunter The Hunter And The Movable Zoo... https://pickmeuppoetry.org/hunter-the-hunter-and-the-movable-zoo-by-roger-turner/

Danik 2016

07-18-2024, 09:36 AM

re: Love Pavarotti too and Placido Domingo

Enjoyed the charming poem of Hunter with his movable zoo! (:

"I AM one of the wind's stories,". "Man and his Makers" by Muriel Stuart
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/stuart01.html#2

tailor STATELY

07-18-2024, 04:07 PM

What a wonderful poem! Enjoyed :)

"Just a shell, to which the seaweed glittering yet with greenness clings," - Henry Kendall; Wamberal... http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/1357/wamberal.html

Danik 2016

07-18-2024, 11:01 PM

Beautiful nature poem! Aren't we getting nostalgic! Unfortunately Atlas doesn't display its poems to me.it did for a long time but it ceased due to Copyright. But found the poem here:Wamberal
Henry Clarence Kendall:https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-14694

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/james-whitcomb-riley/poets-love-for-the-children-29546 (sorry, had to search this poem four times. My head isn't working any more, I'm too tired).

tailor STATELY

07-19-2024, 03:45 AM

Sweet poem of innocence and innocence lost, and the sadness that that change can give...

"Labor not in the murky dell," - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop; Zest... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8598585-Zest-by-Rose-Hawthorne-Lathrop

Danik 2016

07-19-2024, 09:38 AM

Enjoyed that optimistic poem.

"My mother thought study". "Teaching" by Adélia Prado
http://www.antoniomiranda.com.br/poesia_ingles/adelia_prado.html

tailor STATELY

07-19-2024, 11:19 AM

Nice collection of poems... some heart breaking... otherwise enjoyed :)

"Now the star of day is high," - Thomas Moore; Now the star of day is high... https://kalliope.org/en/text/moore2002080318

Danik 2016

07-19-2024, 11:20 PM

:)

Now the Star...A fierce poem!

"O Science reaching backward through the distance,". "Plea To Science." by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/ella-wheeler-wilcox/plea-to-science-33084Gʻ

tailor STATELY

07-20-2024, 02:50 AM

Somber poem of faith. Found the poem here: https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/ella-wheeler-wilcox/plea-to-science-33084 Enjoyed :)

"Patiently waiting." - Joshua Querijero; Transit... https://allpoetry.com/poem/17902201-Transit-by-poemsbypogi

Danik 2016

07-20-2024, 09:58 AM

Seems you didn´t see my link.

"Transit". Enjoyed very much. Wish Pogi success as a poet, if his other works are as good as this one.

"The Queen has passed away". "The Queen" by Steve
https://hellopoetry.com/tag/queen/

tailor STATELY

07-20-2024, 10:13 AM

At my end your link says: "Sorry, there seems to have been an error, we cannot find what you were looking for, please return to our homepage and try again.....

Sorry, there seems to have been an error, we cannot find what you were looking for, please return to our homepage and try again..."

My Mother loved QE II... enjoyed the poem :)

Not pc in this time... "Ruby wine is drunk by knaves," - Ralph Waldo Emerson; Heroism... https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10058733

Danik 2016

07-20-2024, 10:47 PM

Tested my link here it doesn't work either.

Curious poem by Thomas Moore!

"Sauntering hither on listless wings,"."To a Sea-Bird" by Bret Harte (Francis)
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/francis-bret-harte/to-a-sea-bird-8790

(link tested working)

tailor STATELY

07-21-2024, 01:55 AM

Lol...

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Rising and falling... undulating cadence... Enjoyed :)

"To Ezra Pound;With" - Amy Lowell; Astigmatism... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/amy_lowell/poems/20000

Danik 2016

07-21-2024, 09:37 AM

"Astigmatism" Impressive poem, but the spooking goes on: In your link only the heading became visible. I found the whole poem at
https://poets.org/poem/astigmatism.

"UNSTABLE Goddess! why, with care severe"."To Fortune/FROM METASTASIO" by Mary Tighe (née Blachford),1772-1810.
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/pmt18-w0310.shtml

tailor STATELY

07-21-2024, 10:47 AM

re: Amy - how odd... guess everything wasn't coming up roses for EP ! lol...

and then Metastasio nothing but thorns until his armor shines bright through trials... Enjoyed :)

"VESEY! of Verse the judge and friend!" - Hannah More; The Bas Bleu: Or, Conversation. Addressed To Mrs. Vesey... https://www.poetry.com/poem/42992/the-bas-bleu:-or,-conversation.-addressed-to-mrs.-vesey

Danik 2016

07-21-2024, 09:01 PM

re: going to have a look at Ezra Pound's poems.

Hannah More- European literature in a "slender" piece. Enjoyed! One more hidden very well versed lady.

"When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city, ". "Advice to a Prophet" by Richard Wilbur
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/advice-to-a-prophet/

tailor STATELY

07-21-2024, 09:51 PM

EP: Me too... I've neglected him too long.

Being guided by a living prophet I would love him to visit my streets... Enjoyed :)

Something regarding an "x" mentioned in the previous poem :) ...

"It was meant to be a gift, though the gods" - Corrie Williamson' XANTHUS, ACHILLES’ IMMORTAL WARHORSE, RODEOS IN AMARILLO... https://www.rattle.com/xanthus-achilles-immortal-warhorse-by-corrie-williamson/

Danik 2016

07-22-2024, 09:46 AM

AI! Totally against rodeos!No horse deserves that kind of life! Enjoyed Xanthus speaking his mind! Criative "X" idea though"

"You want to know what work is?". "My Father Teaches Me to Dream" by Jan Beatty
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?28819-Alphabetical-Poem-First-Lines&p=1407141#post1407141

tailor STATELY

07-22-2024, 03:09 PM

lol... found your poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48754/my-father-teaches-me-to-dream

A rather bleak poem about perceived circumstances rather dystopian... enjoyed :)

"Zebras scattered among the savanna grass" - by Michael; ZIGZAG (AN ACROSTIC POEM)... https://nevershortonwords.wordpress.com/2022/12/27/zigzag-an-acrostic-poem/

Danik 2016

07-22-2024, 10:18 PM

re: lol poem is dystopian indeed!
Stic
Poor zebra, elegant acrostic.

"As a child, they could not keep me from wells"."Personal Helicon" by Seamus Heaney
https://www.poetrycat.com/seamus-heaney/personal-helicon

tailor STATELY

07-23-2024, 04:00 AM

Wonderful childhood reflection... enjoyed :)

"Buz, Buz, Buz--says the Great buzzing Bee." - Clara Doty Bates; Buz, Buz, Buz... https://allpoetry.com/Buz,-Buz,-Buz

Danik 2016

07-23-2024, 10:10 AM

Enjoyed this poem about insect rights ;)!(is the butterfly an insect?)

"CEASE, Laura, cease, suspect no more"."TO LAURA." by Amelia Opie (née Alderson)
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/bao18-w0150.shtml

tailor STATELY

07-23-2024, 12:29 PM

Butterflies (Papillon/Mariposa/Schmetterling/Borboleta): Yes :)

To Laura - found an analysis with the poem here... https://allpoetry.com/To-Laura Seems Laura is a common subject in poetry... Enjoyed :)

"Death is the supple Suitor" - Emily Dickinson; Death is the supple Suitor... https://eliteskills.com/c/6259

Danik 2016

07-23-2024, 10:53 PM

re Butterflies:) :) :)

re :To Laura-Enjoyed the analysis. Just wanted to know how you regarded that kerfuffle. Laura must be apoetic name, like Beatrice.

ED- An original take on dead. Enjoyed. Good analysis.

"EXPERIENCE all silver'd with age,"."Sonnet" by Eliza Day
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/bed98-w0410.shtml

tailor STATELY

07-24-2024, 12:43 AM

Yes, Dante's Beatrice, Petrarca's & Schiller's separate Lauras. Re: The kerfuffle - as in the poem I wrote (in a recent Lol poem) in which you prompted the line “Who so list to hount” from the word "hount" (7/21/2024) (https://www.learner.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/American-passages-native-voices-9106-Thomas-Wyatt-Who-so-list-to-hount.pdf I sometimes take a moment to ponder the eternal aspects of unrequited love, etc., and have written a few other poems regarding the themæ, having, as most, not been immune.

Sonnet - Telling experience to take a hike I guess: "If virtue our bliss would insure,
She points to a state beyond death."... perhaps unto eternal life :)

"First I saw the white bear, then I saw the black;" - William Makepeace Thackeray; At the Zoo... https://pickmeuppoetry.org/at-the-zoo-by-william-makepeace-thackeray/

Danik 2016

07-24-2024, 10:40 AM

Lollolol-"Hount" was a mistake, the word I meant was "haunt" but when I saw the good use you made of it I kept quiet. One should not publish ones frailties too much, else one gets canceled(literally) as happened to a certain chief of state.

To Laura- Here Laura seems to be a very close friend and confident of the poetic voice who strives to conceal her love in public.

Enjoyed the zoo poem, no matter if a little smelly.

"Gold or silver, every day,". "Ballade Of Truisms" by William Ernest Henley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-ernest-henley/ballade-of-truisms-18307

tailor STATELY

07-24-2024, 03:38 PM

So true, haven't seen today's news yet... it's been a rollercoaster.

Tortuous poem with its refrain... purposely, skillfully, in no way inane - Enjoyed :)

"Happiness is silent, or speaks equivocally for friends," - Stevie Smith; Happiness... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8499809-Happiness-by-Stevie-Smith

Danik 2016

07-24-2024, 09:03 PM

Happiness in comparison with grief! Enjoyed!

"I came here a wanderer"."Listening-to-a-Flute-in-Yellow-Crane-Pavillion" by Li Po
https://allpoetry.com/Listening-to-a-Flute-in-Yellow-Crane-Pavillion

tailor STATELY

07-25-2024, 03:53 AM

Tranquil... enjoyed :)

"Just a few of the roses we gathered from the Isar" - David Herbert Lawrence; Roses On The Breakfast Table... https://www.poetrycat.com/david-herbert-lawrence/roses-on-the-breakfast-table

Danik 2016

07-25-2024, 08:20 AM

Beautiful poem, for me, about the ephemeral aspect of beauty.

"THE Kings go by with jewled crowns;"."Lollingdon Downs VIII by John Masefield
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/masef01.html#7

tailor STATELY

07-25-2024, 12:55 PM

"Yet God is as the sparrow falls," !!! Enjoyed :)

"Live all thy sweet life thro'," - Christina Georgina Rossetti ; A Summer Wish... https://allpoetry.com/A-Summer-Wish

Danik 2016

07-25-2024, 10:34 PM

Charming poem. Nature as modell of fulfillment.

"M in a vicious world-to love virtue". "Marianne Moore" by ee cummings
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8493771-Marianne-Moore-by-e.e.-cummings

tailor STATELY

07-26-2024, 03:09 AM

Interesting take on an acrostic in honor of Marianne Moore... enjoyed :)

"Night! the horrible wizard Night!"- Kate Seymour Maclean; Night, A Phantasy... https://www.poetrycat.com/kate-seymour-maclean/night-a-phantasy

Danik 2016

07-26-2024, 09:44 AM

I can emphatize. Night is for me the time when the fears take form,

"Out of Wonder World I think you come;"From Wonder World" by Kate Greenaway
https://www.poetrycat.com/kate-greenaway/from-wonder-world

tailor STATELY

07-26-2024, 10:00 AM

Delightful, tender poem:) and another by KG...

"Pray let me introduce you to" - Kate Greenaway; The Dancing Family... https://allpoetry.com/The-Dancing-Family

Danik 2016

07-26-2024, 01:02 PM

Enjoyed this lighthearted poem! :)

A poet with name starting with "Q":
"Like to the Artick needle, that doth guide". "Like to the Arctic Needle "-by Francis Quarles
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/arctic-needle

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07-26-2024, 04:07 PM

Enjoyed: "Inflame my thoughts, and fill my soul with fire, / That I am ravisht with a new delight; / But if thou shroud thy face, my glory fades, / And I remain a Nothing, all compos'd of shades." :)

"Rachel sings sweet —" - Walter de la Mare; Rachel... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw303.html

Danik 2016

07-26-2024, 10:35 PM

"Rachel "-Beautiful poem!

"SWeetly solemn see them stand," Christopher Morley (1890-1957),"HYMN TO THE DAIRYMAIDS STREET"
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw377.html

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07-26-2024, 11:22 PM

Udderly delightful :)

A very short poem (haiku)...

"The apparition of these faces in the crowd:" - Ezra Pound; In a Station of the Metro... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/12675/in-a-station-of-the-metro

Danik 2016

07-27-2024, 09:51 AM

lol!

Enjoyed Esra´s minimal poem. Reminded me of this picture by Tarsila do Amaral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_b8XAKch64&t=106s

"Unwind my riddle" "Unwind my riddle By Stephen Crane
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/crane03.html#8

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07-27-2024, 10:56 AM

Interesting video... reminiscent of Pink Floyd's art: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pink-floyd-animals-reissue-1376578/

In a 1969 document to .pdf that I couldn't access by Margaret Faison: "Crane portrays In four lines the cruelty of an uncaring universe. The "wounded men" suggests that this cruelty is seen in war ..."

"VENGEANCE, arise from thy infernal bed;" - John Brown; THE CURE OF SAUL. / A SACRED ODE.... https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o4985-w0200.shtml

Danik 2016

07-27-2024, 02:30 PM

This article under your Pink Floyd article caught my atention. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-if-reelected-wont-have-to-vote-fixed-1235069397/

The Cure of Saul". Impressive poem with Homeric dramatics. Enjoyed!

A favorite poem! There is some risk of it being a repetition!
"WHEN fishes flew and forests walked"."The Donkey" by G. K. Chesterton
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/chester2.html#19

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07-27-2024, 03:17 PM

Article... lol... inspiring:

rhymes with purple

too much distrust in the media
in the USA, my country, whether
blue, red, or purple...
ultimately I rely on our Constitution
and our motto: "In God We Trust"
as my country doth hirple

7/27/2024

Yes! I love Chesterton's poem too !

"XO," - Mark Toney; X-Ray Oscar... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/3827336/x-ray-oscar/

Danik 2016

07-27-2024, 09:23 PM

Lol! Following God and the Constitution seems very sound to me!

Enjoyed X-Ray Oscar. Intelligent use of X-Words.

"You were kind and sweet of temper, all the good graces were yours,"."You were kind and sweet of temper" by Yannis Ritsos
https://allpoetry.com/You-Were-Kind-And-Sweet-Of-Temper

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07-27-2024, 11:49 PM

Tender, sweet poem of loss... Enjoyed :)

"Zoom, zoom I'm pretty quick; can you keep up with me? You can sit there" - Sandra Juanita Nailing; Zoom, Zoom A Race With Life... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/599112/zoom-zoom-a-race-with-life/

Danik 2016

07-28-2024, 10:30 AM

Lively Zoom Zoom poem!

"A Brazen Pot, by scouring vext,"."The Brass-Pot, and Stone-Jugg"(A FABLE) by Anne Finch, countess of Winchilsea.
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00268.shtml

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07-28-2024, 05:23 PM

Wonderful poem :) Found some background here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Pots

"Beyond a ridge of pine with russet tips" - Pauline Johnson; Thistle-Down... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/thistle-down

Danik 2016

07-28-2024, 08:52 PM

Thanks for the instructive link, tailor. These pots have traveled quite long way from Aesop 's Fable to the poem by Anne Finch.

Thistle-down Beautiful images when the daylight fades into night.

"Could I from this valley drear"."Longing" by Friedrich Schiller
https://www.poetrycat.com/friedrich-schiller/longing

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07-29-2024, 03:17 AM

Enjoyed Longing... "'Tis by magic power alone / Thou canst reach the magic land!" :)

"Death in his palace holds his court," - Toru Dutt; Savitri. Part II.... https://www.poetrycat.com/toru-dutt/savitri-part-iii

Danik 2016

07-29-2024, 09:30 AM

"Savitri." Dramatic poem, found the whole ballad. Wanted to know the rest of the story.

"EVER let the Fancy roam,". "Fancy" by John Keats
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/keats04.html#20

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07-29-2024, 10:46 AM

Delightful poem by Keats - Enjoyed :) While straightforward found an analysis for more insight... https://eliteskills.com/c/4368

"Fate slew him, but he did not drop;" - Emily Dickinson; A Man... https://www.poetrycat.com/emily-dickinson/a-man

Danik 2016

07-29-2024, 11:09 PM

Thanks for the analysis. The romantic feeling more at home in his/her world of fancy than in the real world.

Enjoyed "A man". Interesting that fate is a female.

"THE garden's full of scented wallflowers,"."Elinor Wylie, "The Lost Path"

https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/wylie01.html#6

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07-30-2024, 08:45 AM

A lost spirit ? Death ? Enjoyed the poem and its tension but hard for me to pin down :)

"How necessary it is to have opinions! I think the spotted trout" - Mary Oliver; Yes! No!... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/mary_oliver/poems/15818

Danik 2016

07-30-2024, 04:00 PM

Didn´t find an anlysis but here is a link about the poet:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/elinor-wylis
For me it is necessary to have opinions but I agree that one doesn´t observe nature enough.

"I AM a pool in a peaceful place,"."The Sea Wind" by Sara Teasdale
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/books/teasdale/rivers02.html#2

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07-30-2024, 06:31 PM

re: Elinor - "Oh no! Page not found (404 error)
Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out."..........................lol! I'll research too a bit later.

"Just lost when I was saved!" - Emily Dickinson; Called Back... https://rainingpoetry.com/Called-back-by-Emily-Dickinson/

re: ED... inspires:

(sigh)

the sea calls to me -
memories: (sigh)
both terrible and kind

7/30/2024

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Danik 2016

07-30-2024, 10:15 PM

Sorry! There was a mistake in the name, I lost this link before:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/elinor-wylie
ED Beautiful poem. Perhaps recovery from an illness.

"KNELLER, with silence and surprize"."TO Sir GODFREY KNELLER, ON HIS PICTURE of the KING." by Joseph Addison
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o4226-w0020.shtml

sweet little poem!

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07-31-2024, 05:08 AM

EW: Notorious !

Picture portrait: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_King_George_I_by_Sir_Godfrey_Knel ler.jpeg
Imperious droning poem! Enjoyed :)

"Lost in the forest, I broke off a dark twig" - Pablo Neruda; The White Mans Burden... https://allpoetry.com/The-White-Mans-Burden

Danik 2016

07-31-2024, 09:35 AM

Picture-Lol! George I looks exacly like one would expect him to look.

Beautiful poem by Pablo Neruda. Perhaps a moment or feeling of exile.

Video of Neruda´s house, one of the two I visited. When I was there in the 80ties or nineties, there wasn´t any street art as yet and the house was preserved as he left it , but not turned into a museum. I remember mostly the staircase that united first and second floor, Santiago being very mountainous and a second very small and discreet exit door, very useful in those political times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGLhX_Ke6ro&t=12s

"MANY a year has fled away".Christopher Pearse Cranch, "My Old Palette".
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/cranch01.html#4

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07-31-2024, 05:22 PM

Loved all the nooks and crannies in Neruda's home :)

Enjoyed CPC's poem :)

“North is not final” - M. Seppola Simonsen; North is not final... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/162789/north-is-not-final

Danik 2016

07-31-2024, 10:00 PM

Enjoyed the poem very much. It's how Brazil was created. Ancient maps were partly or completely ignored.

"O bard of fortune, you deem me nought"."The Song Of The Waste-Paper Basket" by Henry Lawson
https://www.poetryverse.com/henry-lawson-poems/the-song-of-the-waste-paper-basket

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08-01-2024, 05:05 AM

Lol poem on "verse to waste bin"... enjoyed :)

"Play, Phoebus, on thy lute," - Robert Herrick; A Canticle To Apollo... https://www.poetrycat.com/robert-herrick/a-canticle-to-apollo

Danik 2016

08-01-2024, 09:35 AM

Enjoyed the informality of the "Canticle to Apollo"!

"Quoth John to Joan, wilt thou have me?"."The Clown's Courtship" by Anonymous?
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/ballad04.html#022

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08-01-2024, 12:12 PM

Lol... enjoyed, etc... :)

"Rare temples thou hast seen, I know," - Robert Herrick; The Fairy Temple; Or, Oberon's Chapel Dedicated To Mr. John Merrifield, Counsellor-At-Law.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/robert-herrick/fairy-temple-or-oberons-chapel-dedicated-to-mr-john-merrifield-counsellor-at-law-18737

Danik 2016

08-01-2024, 10:11 PM

"Sacred Religion! "mother of form and fear,""The River Duddon - A Series Of Sonnets, 1820. - XVIII - Seathwaite Chapel" by William Woodsworth
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-wordsworth/river-duddon-a-series-of-sonnets-1820-xviii-seathwaite-chapel-4318

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08-02-2024, 02:13 AM

Enjoyed :) Some background... https://wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2014/10/15/wordsworth-and-the-river-duddon/

"The shadow was so black," - Stevie Smith; Conviction (III)... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8499771-Conviction--III--by-Stevie-Smith

Danik 2016

08-02-2024, 01:31 PM

Enjoyed the background link to " River Duddon" very much. A nice idea to exalt not so famous local rivers.

Nice, witty shadow poem by Stevie Smith.

"THERE may be chaos still around the world,".George Santayana,"There May Be Chaos Still Around the World"
https://theotherpages.org/poems/santa01.html#3

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08-02-2024, 04:16 PM

Wonderful poem by Santayana! - "They threat in vain; the whirlwind cannot awe / A happy snow-flake dancing in the flaw." :)

"Upon that night, when Fairies light," - Robert Burns; Halloween... https://poets.org/poem/halloween

lololol... maybe this link is better... http://www.robertburnsfederation.com/poems/translations/halloween.htm

Danik 2016

08-02-2024, 10:46 PM

Lololol I thought some halloween playfull spirit had possessed you. It's true I love the Scottish dialect and I got as far to understand that whatever was happening in this big poem ended well, but the second link is definitely better!

"Vegetarian, non - resistant, free-thinker, in ethics a Christian;".". Lloyd Garrison Standar by Edgar Lee Masters
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/edgar-lee-masters/w-lloyd-garrison-standard-37486

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08-03-2024, 03:56 AM

Found an analysis: https://www.songmeaning.ai/songs/Edgar-lee-masters-w-lloyd-garrison-standard Enjoyed :)

"When I was a boy I called the moon a" - Li Po; Good Old Moon... https://allpoetry.com/Good-Old-Moon

Danik 2016

08-03-2024, 10:42 AM

Enjoyed the analysis. The poem is much more complex than I thought. Curiously the link opened only when transferred to Google.

Wonderful moon poem. I guess the moon has been swallowed again.

Cheating a bit:

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

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08-03-2024, 03:58 PM

Curious poem... enjoyed but will have to ponder upon it a bit more :)

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

Danik 2016

08-03-2024, 09:11 PM

re: Don't worry about the X-mas poem. As you know there are very few poems starting with "x" or "z". So the poems aren't always so good.

I love this Wendy Xu poem!

"DEAD as I am, and cold my Breast"."Zeal" by Rev. Charles Wesley
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o3900-w0090.shtml

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08-04-2024, 04:02 AM

Enjoyed! Some of Wesley's songs are in my hymnal that we often sing :)

"Art thou not sweet," - Kate Seymour Maclean; Bird Song... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/kate-seymour-maclean/bird-song-25598

Danik 2016

08-04-2024, 09:44 AM

AAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!Very sweet indeed!

"Beyond my window in the night"."A Town Window" by John Drinkwater
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/gp2_4a.html#window

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08-04-2024, 03:52 PM

Wonderful poem... enjoyed :)

"Crass rays streaming from the vestibules;" - Lola Ridge; Flotsam... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/lola-ridge/flotsam-29080

Danik 2016

08-04-2024, 08:53 PM

Reads very modern to me, powerful images!This link explains a lot:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Ridge

"Days the weather sits"."Place to Be" by Robert Creeley
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2016/04/26/place-to-be-by-robert-creeley/amp/

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08-04-2024, 09:31 PM

Interesting bio of LR. Her images really stand out.

RC - very short and concise... enjoyed :)

"Eleven o’clock, and the curtain falls." - Louis Untermeyer; End of the Comedy... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/12/20/end-of-the-comedy-by-louis-untermeyer/

Danik 2016

08-05-2024, 08:57 AM

End of the Comedy...-So true!Natural forces are rebelling, but human forces are too.

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

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08-05-2024, 02:22 PM

Love this poem so much: "... if only there had been a flower." :)

"grass is unusual" - Ward Maxwell; grass... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/grass

Danik 2016

08-05-2024, 11:23 PM

Enjoyed the grass poem. Grass is so welcome in places where there is only asphalt and stones!

"Hello, listen, I’m on a field phone, do not speak until I say “over.” "Fire Watch" by KEN BABSTOCK
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/fire-watch

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08-06-2024, 04:29 AM

Lol..."I’ve been contracted to watch this horizon and will / be here until something happens." Enjoyed this lonely poem :)

"i twist and gasp" - KATERI AKIWENZIE-DAMM; sturgeon... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/sturgeon

Danik 2016

08-06-2024, 09:32 AM

Gripping poem! One feels a sturgeon on reading it.

"THE Jester shook his hood and bells, and leaped upon a chair,"."The Jester's Sermon" by George Walter Thornbury
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/thorn01.html#1

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08-06-2024, 02:51 PM

A rollicking sermon... Enjoyed :)

"Kisses can kiss us" - Gertrude Stein; Readings... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/01/15/readings-by-gertrude-stein/

Danik 2016

08-06-2024, 10:10 PM

Enjoyed the synthetic and somewhat cryptic poem.

"let it go – the"."let it go – the" e.e. cummings
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/02/04/let-it-go-the-by-e-e-cummings/amp/

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08-07-2024, 02:13 AM

Another enigmatic offering by e.e.. Found the following as a worthy attempt to unravel... https://missprint.wordpress.com/2016/04/02/poetically-speaking-with-me-miss-print-about-let-it-go-by-ee-cummings/ Enjoyed :)

"Morning thick with inscrutable dinge;" - Erin Belieu; Late Autumnal, with Cockroach... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/browse#page=2&sort_by=recently_added

... the link works then blips out then works then blips out... captured somehow as:

Morning thick with inscrutable dinge;

another season drained. I’m watching

the pest control man fill the rat bait

station, black attaché of poison hidden

in the hedge.

And while I pay a monthly

bill for him to do my killing, still

it seems miraculous, how much insists

on surviving, despite us. What grinds it

out. What hustles simply to continue.

Like this plumply enormous

roach, its carapace the molten brown of

topaz, tooled cannily to fold into a ceaseless

package: look at it now collapsing to fit exactly

between my deck’s wooden slats.

No matter what unspeakable

agents we devise for it to carry to its nest,

there comes a calm in knowing there will always

be an awful, inexorable more of something,

other than us, to crawl or slither, gnaw & be

gnawed; a peaceful certainty of moreness,

creeping through our filth to greet what’s

coming soon.

Unloved, ingenious creatures,

the few truly diligent, whom we can never

drive off or annihilate completely, this poem

remembers you, waiting in our unplugged

cracks & fuming sewers, seeing the relentless

engines you’ve willed yourselves to be, the valor

of your tidy & despised machinery.

Source: Poetry (July/August 2024)

Danik 2016

08-07-2024, 09:01 AM

The analysis of Miss Print makes sense. Somehow one has to get read of relationships that don´t work anymore to make room for those relationships that matter. But I don´t think, in real life things are so cleanly cut out. One carries relationships along that are often mixed. And one needs them as they are.
There is also an aspect the poem doesn´t contemplate: the people or circunstances that let one go, whether one is prepared or no.

re poem: Thanks for posting the poem. I think that is former generous poetry foundation making life difficult for non subscribers.
The poem might be written by Clarice Lispector, who had a fascination for roaches:https://miamiartscharter.net/ourpages/auto/2017/8/23/55609573/LISPECTOR_%20Clarice_The%20Fifth%20Story.pdf (Don´t know who the translator is, but the translation is good)

"A NARROW Fellow in the Grass"."A narrow Fellow in the Grass [cc]" by Emily Dickinson
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/dickin01.html#22

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08-12-2024, 07:57 AM

Enjoyed ! "Yet when a Boy, and Barefoot--"... channeling a young boy ?

"Oh, who will hush that cry outside the doors," - Josephine Preston Peabody; The Feaster... https://www.poetrycat.com/josephine-preston-peabody/the-feaster

Danik 2016

08-12-2024, 09:55 AM

I think ED is impersonating a childhood remembrance of a male lyric voice

"O house me, glories! Give me house and home/Here for my homelessness." AI!

"Perch on their water perch hung in the clear Bann River"."The Perch" by Seamus Heaney
https://www.poetrycat.com/seamus-heaney/the-perch

Found this analysis:
http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/poetry/heaney.htm#:~:text=Back%20to%20top-,Perch,how%20the%20perch%20remain%20unmoved.

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08-12-2024, 04:20 PM

Wonderful language ! Such a dreamy waterscape... enjoyed very much :) Enjoyed the background and analysis too :)

"Queen of the silver bow! — by thy pale beam," - Charlotte Smith; SONNET [04] IV. To the Moon.... https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/n22cs-w0040.shtml

Danik 2016

08-12-2024, 10:27 PM

Enjoyed the sonnet! How many women poets are there in this collection of the eighteenth century!

"Remote from Strife, from urban Throngs, and Noise"."By a Person of Quality." by Mary Barber

https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/pba35-w1060.shtml

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08-13-2024, 01:54 AM

"Remote from Strife, from urban Throngs, and Noise.
Here dwells my Soul amidst domestic Joys:
...
Wrapt up in all the Sweets of rural Ease,
My great Creator's Works my Senses please.
The Mind, in peaceful Solitude, has Room
To range in Thought, and ramble far from home,
...
"Whilst I, in sacred Silence, truly live."

Ah yes, why I moved to the country... if it wasn't for fire danger here it would be more than adequate. There are other avenues to pursue... seaside haunts have always been on my mind... perhaps.

"She always writes poems. This summer" - Marie Ponsot; The Problem of Fiction... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2005/08/27/the-problem-of-fiction-by-marie-ponsot/

Danik 2016

08-13-2024, 03:56 PM

"Read a Little Poetry" has become a paid site but found the poem here:https://exceptindreams.livejournal.com/575399.html
Loved it(only a bit too much biting in it). But the problem of fiction would be making fiction with the elements you have.

Living in the country or at the seaside must be lovely. I never lived on the country, but in small towns and I liked it at the time.
Today I probably would have to get used to them again, because São Paulo is an immensity.

"The heart of a bear is a cloud-shuttered"."Arrhythmia" by Hailey Leithauser
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/arrhythmia/

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08-13-2024, 05:58 PM

Not paywalled here yet :(

Wonderful poem with twists and turns for language... enjoyed so very much :)

"Upon a Lilac Sea" - Emily Dickinson; 'Upon a Lilac Sea'... https://eliteskills.com/c/5673

Danik 2016

08-13-2024, 10:28 PM

I confess I am a bit confused about the interpretation of E Ds poem. The interpretation refers to several lines that are not in the poem. I looked up other posts of the poem to see if this is an abridged version but the versions I found are all alike.

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

(Seems there are currently two versions of "Read a Little Poetry" on line: the older one we have been using and the new one associated with a paid site).

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08-14-2024, 04:05 AM

Lololol... you're right !

Intriguing poem with its wonderful last line :)

"When you caught one to keep," - Kimberly Casey; Golden Hour... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/golden-hour/

Danik 2016

08-14-2024, 10:07 AM

"Golden Hour". Impressive poem about "natural" violence.

"X marks". "X Marks the Spot" by Sage Sweetwater
https://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?id=362663&AuthorID=29292

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08-14-2024, 04:35 PM

Enjoyed :)

"You and I, our hands" - Anthony Orozco; mano a mano... https://www.thenasiona.com/2020/03/07/four-poems-by-anthony-orozco/

Danik 2016

08-14-2024, 09:14 PM

"mano a mano"- Beautiful poem!

"I dreamt last night; and in that dream"."Z---------'s Dream" by Anne Bronte
https://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=345201

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08-15-2024, 04:17 AM

Enjoyed. Complex poem for me... found some enlightenment here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14748932.2023.2209606#abstract :)

"After all," - Yukunno Ghirmay; QESINE... https://www.poetry.com/poem/163043/qesine

Danik 2016

08-15-2024, 09:41 AM

Thanks for the very interesting and complete critique on "Z_______Dreams".

Enjoyed the minimalism of QESINE...

"The barnacle is rather odd —"."The Barnacle" by A.E. Stallings
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-barnacle/

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08-15-2024, 01:22 PM

Enjoyed the étude on the barnacle :)

"Come, let us weep for Begum; he is dead."- John Kendall; Elegy On A Rhinoceros (Recently Deceased)... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/elegy-on-a-rhinoceros-recently-deceased-49304343604

Danik 2016

08-15-2024, 10:44 PM

Ai! Beautiful poem on the death of Begun! Didn't find a bio of the poet, 19 C perhaps?

"Dancing and prancing to town we go,"."On The Wall Top." by Kate Greenaway

https://www.poetrycat.com/kate-greenaway/on-the-wall-top

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08-16-2024, 03:44 AM

Found something:
• https://prabook.com/web/john_kaye.kendall/748453
• https://orlando.cambridge.org/people/433d076f-d8da-4128-8408-c0c970b75e96
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76016851
• https://www.picturesofengland.com/England/Cornwall/Lanlivery/pictures/1131480

• From https://www.ststephensgreatwigborough.org/post/john-betjeman-and-the-wigwigs-the-truth-revealed
We get:

Dum-Dum it turned out was someone different altogether. A search of author pseudonyms quickly revealed it was the pen name of Captain John Kaye Kendall (1869 -1952), who wrote light hearted poems on subjects as diverse as women’s hockey, an elephant’s bath and the best kind of Christmas gift.

A Gunnery Instructor with the Royal Artillery in India, he started writing to banish the tedium of a long colonial posting abroad, and published several books of humorous verse, of dubious quality and now largely forgotten. These included At Odd Moments: A book of Verses and Parodies (1900), In the Hills and other Views (1903), The Crackling of Thorns (1906), A Fool’s Paradise (1910) and Odd Creatures (1915).

On his return from India, he made his name writing poems and articles for Punch (from 1902 onwards) under the pseudonym of Dum-Dum. He married the playwright Githa Sowerby and died in 1952.

What’s surprising is he wrote this poem, not after a visit to the Wigboroughs, but based solely on a newspaper article about them.

Interestingly, the poem was written (and published in Punch) exactly 50 years after the Great English Earthquake of 1884, in which so much damage was caused to Great and Little Wigborough. Was the newspaper article he read about the villages commemorating the anniversary of this important event? It certainly seems a strong possibility.

So, in conclusion, the poem is perhaps disappointingly, but quite definitely, not the work of John Betjeman, but rather that of a less well-known poet and writer, Captain John Kaye Kendall (aka Dum-Dum).

However, this should not detract from its value or sentiment, as a fulsome celebration of the rural idyll, and of the author’s desire, echoed by many of us today, to find a peaceful spot to live at one with nature, away from traffic and the stresses of modern life.

• Pg 7 of 20 of the following link shows a photo of John Kaye Kendall in a bio about his wife Githa Sowerby (Pg 5 of 20) https://minttheater.org/mint/wp-content/themes/mint/RuthfordProgam.pdf
• More on Githa: (start pg 5) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54ee4d0ee4b0ae0904d7b326/t/5f84aef9b376fe1153a05d1e/1602531070381/OfficialRutherfordProgramQTG.pdf

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/opinion/echowoman/10449876.womans-work/

• His Mother: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Peard-125
• Some background on Begum: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380355182_Taxonomy_and_Nomenclature_of_Dicerorhinu s_sumatrensis_in_South_Asia

Sweet, light, short poem by KG... enjoyed :)

"Even a rock" - Molly Peacock; How I Come to You... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/04/09/how-i-come-to-you-by-molly-peacock/

Danik 2016

08-16-2024, 10:17 AM

Lololol! If someone badly in need of a goodliterature researcher reads the post above, it might be the end of your retirement!
Through his better known wife and a poem wrongly attributed to a more famous poet! Even Begum from an Indian Zoo was contemplated by the research!

Coming back later! Must try to get at the old version of "Read a Little Poetry" to read your poem. Probably my fault. Author of the site must have detected a massive interest from South America in the poems and thought this was the right time to transform the site in a paid site.

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08-16-2024, 10:44 AM

I love to research out of curiosity; JKK seemed worthy of a deeper dive :)

Hmmm... When I first copied the link there was no problem... but when I tried again there was a popup to "subscribe" in a free manner, which I did, so no pay wall for me, but they must be noticing the traffic coming through with their analytics... it's a shame they feel the need to interrupt casual browsing.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

Danik 2016

08-16-2024, 02:45 PM

Molly Peacock; "How I Come to You"_Wonderful description of a person, starting a new relationship? still with the scars of the old one. I had sawed (and used a lot) the alphabetical list of first lines of the site, so I could read the poem. The second reading was interrupted and I subscribed.

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

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08-16-2024, 06:11 PM

re: MP... I think you're right.

Sweet poem... haven't had a peach in ages... enjoyed :)

"grass is unusual" - Ward Maxwell; grass... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/grass

Danik 2016

08-16-2024, 10:23 PM

Grass- quite an unusual subject for a poem. Enjoyed !

"Helen, thy beauty is to me"."To Helen" by Edgar Allan Poe
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/helen

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08-17-2024, 01:28 AM

Thought it was a simple homage to Helen of Troy - but my curiosity got the better of me... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Helen... Enjoyed :)

"In a logged over meadow" - Stephen Meadows; Tenmile... https://www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com/stephen-meadows-and-brigit-truex/

Danik 2016

08-17-2024, 10:17 AM

re "To Helen"-Thanks for the enlightening analysis. I had no idea how important this poem is in Poe´s oeuvre. For me it was also just a homage to Helen of Troy.
"Tenmile" -Enjoyed very much. For me a minimalist take on the Indians that were "disappeared" from their own soil.

"THE jewelled steps are already quite white with dew,"."The Jewel Stairs' Grievance" by Ezra Pound
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/pound01.html#10 (10th Pound poem)

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08-17-2024, 04:57 PM

"Tenmile" was written by my Gold Country poet friend :)

Interesting choice... enjoyed the poem and the analysis :)

"Kate-a-Whimsies, John-a-Dreams," - William Ernest Henley; Kate-A-Whimsies, John-A-Dreams... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/15039/kate-a-whimsies-john-a-dreams/

Danik 2016

08-17-2024, 11:00 PM

re: Yes, I noticed that he is from Sacramento.I hope there are more poems by him in the net.
"Kate-a-Whimsies..."Well, maybe the poet is just saying that nothing is for ever: neither life, nor love and no one's dreams or whims.

" 'LET little children come to me,' " "ST. LUKE XVIII. 16." by Joanna Baillie
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/bjb18-w0850.shtml

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08-18-2024, 02:19 AM

Not from Sacramento, closer to Monterey I believe, and resides now in the Gold Country :)

Sweet poem; my favorite latter-day scriptures are with the children in 3Nephi 17... https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/17?lang=eng
& 26... https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/26?lang=eng... Enjoyed :)

"Music, like an ocean, often carries me away!" - Charles Baudelaire; Music... https://www.best-poems.net/charles_baudelaire/music.html

Danik 2016

08-18-2024, 10:44 AM

Re poet: Do you know him personally?

Thanks!These scriptures seem to me based on the Bible.

Powerful Baudelaire poem on music!

"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,". "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-new-colossus/

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08-18-2024, 07:25 PM

re: Poet - Yes :)

Enjoyed EL's poem; not so few in my family heard her promise, felt her alure :)

"Oh sudden motion, and shaking of the earth," - James Yates; (printed in 1582 in "The Castell of Courtesy")... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1580_Dover_Straits_earthquake

Danik 2016

08-18-2024, 08:53 PM

Interesting not only the chosen poem, but the literary hubbub created on behalf of the earthquake. Enjoyed this immense title s
" A Warning to the Wyse, a Feare to the Fond, a Bridle to the Lewde, and a Glasse to the Good; written of the late Earthquake chanced in London and other places, the 6th of April, 1580, for the Glory of God and benefit of men, that warely can walk, and wisely judge. Set forth in verse and prose, by Thomas Churchyard, gentleman." and
"A Bright Burning Beacon, forewarning all wise Virgins to trim their lampes against the coming of the Bridegroome. Conteining A generall doctrine of sundrie signes and wonders, specially Earthquakes both particular and generall: A discourse of the end of this world: A commemoration of our late Earthquake, the 6 of April, about 6 of the clocke in the evening 1580. And a praier for the appeasing of Gods wrath and indignation. Newly translated and collected by Abraham Fleming."

"Perhaps to love is to learn"."Coda" by Octavio Paz
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2005/10/12/coda-by-octavio-paz/

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08-19-2024, 08:35 AM

Wonderful poem!
Their cottage was changed into a temple, and they became priest and priestess of it. Later the gods granted their wish that they might both die at the same time by turning them into trees—Baucis into a linden, Philemon into an oak. Among literary sources the story is found only in Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses. - Britannica

"Queen of inventive thought, thy dreams" - Anne Hunter; CARISBROOK CASTLE... https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/bah18-w0140.shtml

Danik 2016

08-19-2024, 04:31 PM

:)

Enjoyed that dark castle saga!

"Rejoice ye jovial sons of mirth,"."ON CONTEMPLATIVE EASE." by Elisabeth Hands
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/peh89-w0250.shtml

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08-19-2024, 04:47 PM

Excluded from the drunkenness some men call mirth she walks peaceably in solitude under the stars... Enjoyed ! :)

"Sprung from great Brahma, Manu had two sons," - Toru Dutt; The Legend Of Dhruva... https://www.poetrycat.com/toru-dutt/the-legend-of-dhruva

Danik 2016

08-19-2024, 10:10 PM

Enjoyed the legend! Expected a different poem, a story of war and strife between the two brothers.

"The road led straight to the temple."."A Hall" by Czeslaw Milosz

https://www.poetrycat.com/czeslaw-milosz/a-hall

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08-20-2024, 02:27 AM

Contemplative poem set in a dream... Enjoyed :)

"UNtouch'd by love, unmov'd by wit," - David Garrick; VERSES written in SYLVIA'S PRIOR... https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o5154-w0510.shtml

Danik 2016

08-20-2024, 08:21 AM

THis beautiful poem sounds familiar. Maybe one of us posted it recently.

"THE vivid grass with visible delight"."The Castaways" by Claude McKay
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/mckay03.html#41

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08-20-2024, 03:25 PM

Oops! You're right, forgot to strike it from my queue :)

A tragic turn to the poem... saved to share with my poetry group... enjoyed :)

"Wouldst know what tricks, by the pale moonlight," - Thomas Moore; The Legend Of Puck The Fairy... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/legend-puck-fairy

Danik 2016

08-20-2024, 11:04 PM

Lol! Puck's pranks.
"Seeing Off a Friend by Xue Tao"
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8620651-Seeing-Off-a-Friend-by-Xue Tao

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08-21-2024, 02:48 AM

Wistful poem... enjoyed :)

"You who know what easeful arms" - Thomas Runciman; Song... https://all-poetry.com/thomas-runciman/song-30045

Danik 2016

08-21-2024, 09:32 AM

Enjoyed the song!

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

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08-21-2024, 10:15 AM

An intimate poem of the night... enjoyed :)

"A petite fossilized being of the species" - LUCILLE LANG DAY; ‘Lucy’... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/poem-lucy/

Danik 2016

08-21-2024, 10:31 PM

"Loved Lucy"!

"Because birds will show only"."Why Birds Fly" by Simeon Dumdum, Jr.
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2012/05/11/why-birds-fly-by-simeon-dumdum-jr/

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08-22-2024, 01:07 AM

Not sure I understand the poem, as brief as it is (prolly meant to be enigmatic)... but I enjoyed :) Bio: wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Dumdum_Jr.

"Calligraphy of geese" - Yosa Buson; Calligraphy of geese... https://allpoetry.com/Calligraphy-of-geese

Danik 2016

08-22-2024, 03:49 PM

Internet issues during the morning.

Wikipedia seems to have problems with poets called Dumdum, But I found a more comunicative page here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Dumdum_Jr. I agree with you about his poem . Tried to find an analysis but found only a academic paper one must inscribe oneself to get at it.

"Calligraphy of geese" - A delicate poem, enjoyed it. Also the analysis and specially the very pertinent comments of the readers.

Another Haiku by Yoda Buson:
"Departing spring". "Haiku" by Yoda Buson
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8516635-Haiku-by-Yosa-Buson

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08-23-2024, 12:32 AM

Beautiful poem! :)

"Each gesture" - Robert Creeley; A Reason... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2005/11/04/a-reason-by-robert-creeley/

Danik 2016

08-23-2024, 09:31 AM

Enjoyed "A Reason" in spite of its pessimism. Strong images!

"My father knows the proper way". "Father" by Edgar Albert Guest
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/father/

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08-23-2024, 11:31 AM

Amusing and lighthearted poem... enjoyed :)

"Gramophones were weapons, swallowing" - Kinsale Drake; Kitchen Table, or When Mildred Bailey Sings... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/162833/kitchen-table-or-when-mildred-bailey-sings

Danik 2016

08-23-2024, 04:25 PM

A very original poem. The Blue Angel, a reference that caught my attention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Angel
or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Angel

"He lived—childhood summers".[He Lived—Childhood Summers] by Lorine Niedecker
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/he-lived-childhood-summers/

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08-23-2024, 06:26 PM

Blue Angel: funny how poetry does that - interesting film summary.

Enjoyed the puzzling poem: More on LN... https://sibila.com.br/english/lorine-niedecker-the-anonymous-gender-class-genre-and-resistances-2/3439 :)

"It has to come from here," - Julia de Burgos; Farewell from Welfare Island... https://allpoetry.com/Julia-de-Burgos

Danik 2016

08-23-2024, 10:46 PM

Read a good part of that phantastic essay on L N. Maybe US should pay more attention to her inumerous unknown or little known poets.

"Farewell from Welfare Island"-Powerful though small poem!

"Johnnie Crack and Flossie Snail"."Johnnie Crack and Flossie Snail" by Dylan Thomas.

https://allpoetry.com/poem/11898210-Johnnie-Crack-And-Flossie-Snail-by-Dylan-Thomas

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08-24-2024, 02:30 AM

True!

Disturbing poem by DT... :)

"Kiss me and comfort my heart" - Vachel Lindsay; The Beggar's Valentine... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/vachel_lindsay/poems/19429

Danik 2016

08-24-2024, 09:47 AM

"The Beggar's Valentine.." Vachel Lindsay at his most incisive!

"Life is a stream"."Petals" by Amy Lowell
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/alowell2.html#amy1.5

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08-24-2024, 02:28 PM

Delightful poem! Enjoyed :)

"My Sweetheart is the TRUTH BEYOND THE MOON," -
Vachel Lindsay; Beyond The Moon... https://allpoetry.com/Beyond-The-Moon

Danik 2016

08-24-2024, 04:40 PM

"Beyond the Moon" is beyond the moon!

"NAME of my heroine, simply 'Rose;' "The Tale of a Pony" by Bret Harte
http://ppp244-72.static.internode.on.net/authors/H/HarteBret/verse/completepoetical/pony.html

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08-24-2024, 06:11 PM

Amusing and colorful tail, er, tale... Enjoyed :)

"Out in the upland places," Violet Jacob; Back To The Land... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/back-to-the-land-91058348103

Danik 2016

08-24-2024, 10:37 PM

"Back to the Land"-Intense nostalgic poem. Interesting poet.

"Pierrot is dying:" "Pierrot" by Adelaide Crapse
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8543805-Pierrot-by-Adelaide-Crapsey
https://uploads5.wikiart.org/images/aubrey-beardsley/the-death-of-pierrot.jpg!HD.jpg

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08-25-2024, 02:01 AM

An ekphrastic poem! Enjoyed the poem and the pix ! :)

"Questions find the answers" - Wallace Dean LaBenne; Questions Are In Question... https://www.poetry.com/poem/82499/questions-are-in-question

Danik 2016

08-25-2024, 10:41 AM

Lol! No questions about "Questions are in Question!"

"ROSE, harsh rose,"."Sea Rose" by H. D.
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/hd01.html#8

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08-25-2024, 11:56 AM

Enjoyed !; a summary... https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/sea-rose#:~:text=H.D.%20captures%20this%20rejection%20 of,by%20the%20sea%20and%20wind.

"Silver clock! O silver clock! tell to me the time o' day!" - Virna Sheard... The Fairy Clock... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/the-fairy-clock-19704487012

Danik 2016

08-25-2024, 08:59 PM

Enjoyed so much the summary about H D. Doolittle must have cropped up somewhere with another poem, not sure if in alphabetical.
A silvery poem!

"This is not Love, perhaps,". "Not Love, Perhaps" by A.S.J. Tessimond
https://allpoetry.com/Not-Love-Perhaps

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08-25-2024, 10:26 PM

Incredible poem! - "But something written in lighter ink," Enjoyed :)

"Uncommon Charms, I plainly see," - Mary Barber; To Mrs. Putland... https://www.best-poems.net/mary-barber/to-mrs-putland.html

Danik 2016

08-26-2024, 03:02 PM

Poor Mrs. Putland. I don´t think she enjoyed this poem.

"VIRTUE and prudence once agreed,". "APPEARANCE AND REALITY." by Eliza Day
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/bed98-w0040.shtml

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08-26-2024, 04:09 PM

Mrs. Putland: Lol

Enjoyed the personification poem: "Without Appearance few would see / The merits of Reality." :)

"Water hollows stone," - Ocavio Paz; Wind, Water, Stone / for Roger Caillois / TRANSLATED BY ELIOT WEINBERGER... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58334/wind-water-stone

Danik 2016

08-26-2024, 10:04 PM

Loved the play with "wind, water and stone" in Octavio's Paz poem

"Flowers bloom:"."Gazing at Spring" by Xue Tao
https://allpoetry.com/Gazing-at-Spring

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08-27-2024, 02:01 AM

Enjoyed the existential simplicity of the poem's premise :)

"Youth is the time when hearts are large," - Herman Melville; On The Slain Collegians... https://www.poetrycat.com/herman-melville/on-the-slain-collegians

Danik 2016

08-27-2024, 09:47 AM

Looked for some context to this poem but the one reference I found is behind paywall. It seems to refer to a battle in the Civil War

"A home above the year's seasons". "Home" by Zbigniew Herbert
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8508019-Home-by-Zbigniew-Herbert

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08-27-2024, 06:48 PM

Herm: Found this thoughtful piece: https://www.huckgutman.com/blog-1/melville-and-modern-war
• an electronic book with more of his war poetry: https://melville.electroniclibrary.org/battle-pieces-corrected-first-edition-and-bound-proofs
• Project Gutenberg version: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12384/12384-h/12384-h.htm
• Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville

Incredibly rich for such a short poem... saving for use in our poetry group for our short reciting segment: "poems by other poets". Enjoyed :)

"By promise fair and artful flattery" - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet LVI. Amor con sue promesse lusingando. / Love Chains Are Still Dear to Him... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/sonnet-lvii

Danik 2016

08-27-2024, 10:05 PM

Thanks for this complete Melville research, specially the poems and the analysis by Huck Gutman!

Prefered the translation of Wolaston of Petrarca.

"Closed like confessionals, they thread"."Ambulances" by Philip Larkin
https://www.poetrycat.com/philip-larkin/ambulances

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08-28-2024, 01:52 AM

Odd, my mistake... my link referenced the wrong poem; should have been: https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/sonnet-lvi-52591204701

Enjoyed Larkin's poem... I believe he's beginning to grow on me in the literary sense; a review: https://philiplarkin.com/poem-reviews/ambulances/

"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee" - John Donne; Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/holy-sonnets-death-be-not-proud/

Danik 2016

08-28-2024, 09:22 PM

I noticed it but ok! Got conjunctivitis so little internet today.
Thanks for the Larkin review. Going to enjoy it when my eyes are better.
Overcoming death!

"EACH saucy cit, who strolls from town,"."Written near BATH." by Richard Graves
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o5156-w0310.shtml

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08-29-2024, 04:05 AM

Take care of your eyes... I get allergic conjunctivitis nearly every year :(

Enjoyed :)

Epigraph: "What you say to the desolate and inhospitable you, calls pleasant with me who feels." ? (ran through google translate)

• Poems about Bath... http://www.poetryatlas.com/search/bath.html
• Chronology of Bath... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Bath,_Somerset

"From Cocoon forth a Butterfly" - Emily Dickinson; From cocoon forth a butterfly (The Butterfly's Day)... https://poemanalysis.com/emily-dickinson/from-cocoon-forth-a-butterfly/

Danik 2016

08-29-2024, 03:50 PM

Thanks. Seems to be allergic, trying to find a doctor for confirmation.

Thanks for translating the epigraph and for the amplification links.

Enjoyed this charming ED poem. One possible reference you probably know:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fables_(La_Fontaine,_tr._Wright)/The_Grasshopper_and_the_Ant

"The gardener does not love to talk."."The Gardener" by Robert Louis Stevenson
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/rls03.html#17

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08-29-2024, 04:06 PM

Delightful fable ! I hadn't read this version before :)

Lol! Wonderful poem about a young man's dealing with the gardener... Enjoyed! :)

"He said no word of her to us" - Stevie Smith; Nor We of Her to Him... https://allpoetry.com/Nor-We-of-Her-to-Him

Danik 2016

08-29-2024, 10:47 PM

:)

https://www.best-books-for-kids.com/robert-louis-stevenson-poems.html
"He said no word of her to us". Loved this wordplay revealing a concealed very destructive relationship.

"If ever the time comes for me to die". "My Wake" by Albinas Zukauskas.
https://allpoetry.com/My-Wake

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08-30-2024, 03:25 AM

I didn't remember/know of RLS's delightful child verse... I wonder if Alan Rickman was ever approached to portray him.

AZ put a lot of thought in his wake poem... enjoyed :)

"Just this one day in all the year" - Dora Sigerson Shorter; The Skeleton In The Cupboard... https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Collected_Poems_of_Dora_Sigerson_Shorter/The_Skeleton_in_the_Cupboard

Danik 2016

08-30-2024, 01:16 PM

"The Skeleton In The Cupboard..." Very interesting take. Enjoyed! The demand to be happy on Christmas Eve has sometimes the opposite effect, families quarrel, lonely people are sad, destituted people are reminded of their losses...

Flexibilising the rule a bit:
"I am king of the room"."The King" by Fouad Mohammad Fouad (translation Atef Alshaer)
https://www.poetrytranslation.org/poems/the-king

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08-30-2024, 02:07 PM

Sad poem of the aged... we kings and queens in waiting... Enjoyed :)

"Let us build a fire" - Joseph O. Legaspi; Poetry... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/162799/poetry-6667f0ff4bf70

Danik 2016

08-30-2024, 10:57 PM

Yes, alas!
Enjoyed the imagery of this poem about destruction of one's home.

'My brother holds a snake by its head. The whole"."Cyrus & the Snakes" by Ada Limón
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/162176/cyrus-the-snakes

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08-31-2024, 04:02 AM

Enjoyed the retrospective by Ada :)

"Nature, the gentlest mother," - Emily Dickinson; Nature, the gentlest mother...
• Poem: https://songofamerica.net/song/nature-the-gentlest-mother-1/
• Music: https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&client=opera&hs=BFi&sca_esv=9927d4fa94a77240&sxsrf=ADLYWIJ3bvkl6OYM4dELA6AyMQySKFBo9w:172509116 5017&q=Copland+turned+to+the+pioneering+poetry+of+Emily +Dickinson&tbm=vid&source=lnms&fbs=AEQNm0AbzhUJjXv6jRup8eVc0BvPyH5PazCaW205cG-Bd0in0SeU-Q4GVbDidOCCAlv8ddz_JDlkDHfHwu6ZdNN2gK7iwmPflMjTXNE 3D4dG3cbrOKNfHaV1RN-jH5INQjna5wQx46aObV1gElNVxObSibzKOI7BpW3oR_Ci7Gfka Ar4x0Ebs9yfytP3Ug8D3v6HPoi3zUWiEEyjG4r-XfnY74QMRP1vhA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjBh-Kw4Z6IAxV0LdAFHaMqDsYQ0pQJegQIDxAB&biw=1162&bih=533&dpr=1.65#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:10a726da,vid:amrtV931pjo,st:0

Danik 2016

08-31-2024, 10:39 AM

Thanks for EDs gentle poem and the music!

'O black and unknown bards of long ago,"."O Black and Unknown Bards" by James Weldon Johnson
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/johnson3.html#2

tailor STATELY

08-31-2024, 11:43 AM

Wonderful poem... Enjoyed :)

"Pain has an element of blank;" - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson ; The Mystery Of Pain... https://allpoetry.com/The-Mystery-Of-Pain

Danik 2016

08-31-2024, 10:28 PM

E D explores a quite unusual aspect of pain in this poem. Enjoyed!

"Quiet form of silent nun,"."Soeur Monique - A Rondeau By Couperin" by Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/alice-meynell/soeur-monique-a-rondeau-by-couperin-38432

tailor STATELY

09-01-2024, 03:12 AM

Nice "Q" find - An homage to an idyllic nun: "Was his music-dream of you / Of some perfect nun he knew, / Or of some ideal, as true?"... enjoyed :)

"Rhaicos was born amid the hills wherefrom" - Walter Savage Landor; The Hamadryad... https://allpoetry.com/The-Hamadryad

Danik 2016

09-01-2024, 07:51 PM

Sorry, tailor, lost the poem I had selected so starting again.

Enjoyed the legend.

"Sent as a present from Annam—". The Red Cockatoo byi Bai JuYi
https://allpoetry.com/The-Red-Cockatoo

tailor STATELY

09-01-2024, 09:10 PM

Sad tale... enjoyed... You and I met Bai Juyi through his poetry some time ago:
• More poetry: http://www.chinese-poems.com/bo.html :)
• Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bai_Juyi

"Tenuous and Precarious" - Stevie Smith; Tenuous and Precarious... https://allpoetry.com/Tenuous-and-Precarious

Danik 2016

09-02-2024, 09:31 AM

Thanks for the links about Bai Juyi and his poems. :)

Lol"Tenuous and Precarious"! Stevie Smith (another new poet I enjoy very much) summing up what I think about 21C.

"UNLESS I learn to ask no help". "III.Lessons" by Sara Teasdale
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/books/teasdale/lovesongs02.html#3

tailor STATELY

09-02-2024, 10:25 AM

Lessons ? Have to ponder... enjoyed :)

"VAIN Love, why do'st thou boast of Wings," Anne Kingsmill Finch; Jealousy... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8509161-Jealousy-by-Anne-Kingsmill-Finch

Danik 2016

09-02-2024, 10:34 PM

A very realistic depiction of jealousy.

"When I was born, a crooked angel,"."Seven-Sided Poem" by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
https://allpoetry.com/Seven-Sided-Poem

tailor STATELY

09-03-2024, 01:23 AM

I remember this incredible poem... Enjoyed :)

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

Danik 2016

09-03-2024, 08:16 AM

Oh sorry if it was a repetition!
legit X poem!
"We sat together at one summer’s end,"Adam’s Curse By William Butler Yeats
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/adams-curse/

tailor STATELY

09-03-2024, 09:35 AM

Andrade: No, not in this game... another game in the past (authors?) :)

Incredible poem by Yeats :)

"zoom" - Elizabeth Squires; Broom That Zooms... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/522379/broom-that-zooms/

Danik 2016

09-03-2024, 04:13 PM

Good memory!

Nice children poem.

"A happy vicar I might have been"."A Little Poem" by George Orwell
https://www.poetrycat.com/george-orwell/a-little-poem

tailor STATELY

09-03-2024, 05:32 PM

Light and dark poem... dark - (Arum) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Aram... followed later by "I wasn’t born for an age like this;"; I wonder who hasn't thought this in the modern age ? ~ Enjoyed :)

"Because my mama lost her daddy when she was too young" - Kinsale Drake; How I learned to hold grief at such a young age... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/162836/how-i-learned-to-hold-grief-at-such-a-young-age

Danik 2016

09-04-2024, 07:35 AM

Curious dark character, this Aram. The curious thing is, it seems he wanted the goods mainly to pay his debts. He disn´t acquire goods of his own. And with his learning perhaps he might have got a better position.

Beautiful poem about ancestry!

"Caught -- the bubble". "Sonnet" by Elisabeth Bishop
https://www.poetrycat.com/elizabeth-bishop/sonnet-1979

tailor STATELY

09-04-2024, 04:41 PM

Such great language usage! Enjoyed very much :) A link: https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/poetry/soundings/bishop.htm

"Don't box down to the little box" - Vasko Popa; The Enemies Of The Little Box... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22624

Danik 2016

09-04-2024, 11:52 PM

re EB:true! Enjoyed so much the article!
Harsh poem! This little box can have so many meanings!

"Even as we speak, there's a smoker's cough"."Cows" by Paul Muldoon
https://www.poetrycat.com/paul-muldoon/cows

tailor STATELY

09-05-2024, 03:56 AM

Enjoyed, though I was a bit out to sea on this poem and found some help... https://eliteskills.com/c/17774 :)

"From Deutschland I come with my light wares all laden," - Walter Crane; Buy A Broom... https://www.poetrycat.com/walter-crane/buy-a-broom

Danik 2016

09-05-2024, 09:36 AM

Thanks for the analysis tailor, but I'm getting crazy at these analyses of eliteskills. Where are the cows on the fields? Where are the birds? This seems to refer to another poem. I can´t say that I understood this poem well, but as far as I did understand it, these cows are being taken to the slaughterhouse (I only chose it because I had difficulty in finding an "E" poem).

"Buy A Broom' Cute poem in it´s Bavarian style. :)

"Goldbrown upon the sated flood". "Flood" by James Joyce
https://www.poetrycat.com/james-joyce/flood

tailor STATELY

09-05-2024, 11:21 AM

Muldoon's poem is a bit enigmatic/surreal (perhaps Dada)... cows and cattle are mentioned by name including kine and calves. Birds are alluded to in "bottle of Redbreast" in S3 and S6 gives us ""through the air"" then perhaps "should one taillight flash and flare / then flicker-fade / to an afterimage of tourmaline / set in a dark part-jet, part-jasper or -jade?". But yes, the summary does seem to go far of field.

Enjoyed Joyce's dreamy poem about a flood :)

"Her oval face is so soft and succulent" - Penman; QUEEN OF BEAUTY... https://www.poetry.com/poem/136530/queen-of-beauty

Danik 2016

09-05-2024, 02:25 PM

You are right. I am not familiar with bird names specially not in English so I didn´t recognise them. I also think, that to undestand this poem one must decipher it´s allusions. What may have happened too is that this analysis was the work of AI that caught the elements but not the complexities of the poem and thus tried to simplify it.

Queen of Beauty-Some unexpected comparisons "Gap toothed like the cymbal of famous artists" but enjoyed.

"I'm a fussy little fellow"."The YellowTailed Thornbill" by C.J. Dennis
https://allpoetry.com/'The-Yellow-Tailed-Thornbill'

tailor STATELY

09-05-2024, 03:44 PM

Sweet poem !!! "If you'll listen to this cheerful little air -- / "Chip, chip." / Oh, I'll charm you with my cheerful little air." Enjoyed ! :)

"joyful to see" - PinkFaerie5; Joy... https://allpoetry.com/poem/17971388-joy-by-PinkFaerie5

Danik 2016

09-05-2024, 10:49 PM

"joy" Aiii! Loved the poem!

"KITTY's charming voice and face,"."The PLAY-THING chang'd." by Anonymous.
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o5157-w0790.shtml

tailor STATELY

09-06-2024, 01:27 AM

Another sweet poem... Enjoyed! :)

"LIKE to the damaske rose you see," - Francis Quarles; Hos Ego Versiculos... https://allpoetry.com/Hos-Ego-Versiculos

Danik 2016

09-06-2024, 03:17 PM

My half finished answer blown away!
Enjoyed the poem! About the title:https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2009/04/behind-the-title-why-the-beehive/

"Mysterious keeper of the key". 'Music" by Alaric Alexander Watts
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8572961-Music-by-Alaric-Alexander-Watts

tailor STATELY

09-06-2024, 06:54 PM

Enjoyed the link and tie-in to Virgil and Bathyllus. The MA Historical Society would have many a note about some of my distant cousins (Adams), and in the article therein even a mention of another surname with whom I may also be related :)

The beehive theme is used quite often in my faith... the term "Deseret" being very beloved :)

I can identify wholeheartedly with Watts' poem. Enjoyed Very much. Music takes hold of our hearts, minds, and spirits: I'm often taken away on flights to bygones past, covering every emotion possible by a riff or a song... sometimes goosebumps may appear :) other times a melancholy may beset me (more often) :( and then, when singing in the choir or with the congregation at church, to a higher place. :)

"Now rests my love : till nuw her tender brest," - Francis Quorles; Sion's Sonnets... Bridegroom.... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sion-s-sonnets/