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Selfless service. Enjoyed :) Summary at AllPoetry: https://allpoetry.com/The-Bridge-Builder
"But then there comes that moment rare" - Katherine Mansfield; Voices of the Air... https://allpoetry.com/Voices-of-the-Air
• Bio: https://allpoetry.com/Katherine-Mansfield
Thanks! Will Dromgoole was a woman!
Charming sound poem!Thanks for KM bio.
"Cheerful and happy was his mood,"."The Good Man" by Jack Mcyntire
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/character-poems/ #11
"Will Dromgoole was a woman!" Thanks, I didn't catch that... and very prolific too! :)
May we all aspire to like The Good Man... Enjoyed :)
"DEFEATED! but never disheartened!" - Paul Hamilton Hayne; The Soul-Conflict... https://allpoetry.com/The-Soul-Conflict
Well, some good men and women are too good!
Strong representation of a soul conflict.
"Each small gleam was a voice,"."Each small gleam was a voice" by Stephen Crane
https://www.poemine.com/Stephen-Cran...s-a-voice.html
"Songs of carmine, violet, green, gold." Enjoyed :) Our Easter program is today, the 29th :)
"Fair orb of eve, I view thee o'er the sea," - Eliza and Sarah Wolcott; To The Moon Rising Above The Waters... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-the-moon/
Happy Palm Sunday Easter programm!
Enjoyed that serene moon poem!
"God's house has a ceiling that's curved and far and high"."God's house has a ceiling" by Annette Wynne
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/ann...has-a-ceiling/
Thank you... Happy Palm Sunday to you as well ! :)
And I might add a shoutout to the Moon. Enjoyed :)
"Hold fast, golden buttons --" - Frederick R. Mccreary; Buttons... https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem26.php?pid=10105985
A joyous poem! Enjoyed!
"I made a hundred little songs"."The Song Maker
https://allpoetry.com/The-Song-Maker
Enjoyed so much... it matches her bio to a 't': https://allpoetry.com/Sara-Teasdale :)
"J azz music lover" - Blue Jay; acrostic poem... https://www.poeticous.com/blue-jay/acrostic-poem
Yes, I agree about Sara Teasdale. Maybe she was a romantic herself.
Ingenious acrostic, but with a small mistake with the letter "I".
Poem by a poet with "K" in her name.
"DEBORAH danced, when she was two,"Experience" by Aline Kilmer
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/...er05.html#walk
Sara: yes, I think so.
Lol... yes I see that now.
Delightful poem of a child who has gone from the innocence of two to the 'intelligent' being she is now at three. Enjoyed :)
"Listen, children:" - Edna St. Vincent Millay; Lament... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8476165-L...incent-Millay/
A very convincing poem about grief.
"Make the best of life today—"Do Your Best"
by Kate Louise Wheeler
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/kat.../do-your-best/
Doin' the best I can... Enjoyed :)
"Now tidy your house," - A. K. Ramanujan ; Chicago Zen... https://www.poemine.com/A-K-Ramanujan/Chicago-Zen.html
A very interesting poem, wisdom bordering the nonsensical. Enjoyed it very much!
"Out of the infinite sea of eternity"."Life" by James Johnson.
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/life-1151/
Poemhunter.com hates me - I have to resort to converting the page to plain text for some reason, but, it's doable.
Enjoyed the poem, though I think it came up a line or two short :)
"Pent in this common sphere of sensual shows," - Paul Hamilton Hayne; Pent in this common sphere... https://allpoetry.com/-Pent-in-this-common-sphere-
Oh my, so no poemhunter in future. The explanations I have: either they want to force you to spend money on the site ( nobody in Brazil would pay in dollars to read a poem) or you have a different Window software, mine is 11.
Anyway here is the full. poem just for check:
"Out of the infinite sea of eternity
To climb, and for an instant stand
Upon an island speck of time.
From the impassible peace of the darkness
To wake, and blink at the garish light
Through one short hour of fretfulness.
James Weldon Johnson Friday, April 2, 2010"
Delightful romantic poem!
A poem with the title beginning with "Q"
"Of all the questions you might want to"."Questions About Angels"
by Billy Collins
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s-about-angels
I was able to read the poem on poemhunter.com by using an Opera browser extension that turns a page into plain text, but thank you for posting the poem :)
Turns out the page doesn't play nice with my Opera browser... also have problems with videos on Opera. The page works fine on the Edge browser as do videos however, so I guess I'll have to make the switch to another browser soon, sigh. So poemhunter.com is fine to use.
Whimsical musings on angels. Enjoyed :)
"Recall from Time’s abysmal chasm" - Arthur Guiterman; Ode to the Amoeba... https://orebody.com/2005/11/18/simple-creatures/
I had this browser problem years ago with the LitNet page itself. The page appeared cracked in all modern browsers. Then I switched to Duck Duck Go which has less resources but works fine so far
Ode to the Amoeba-a zoological find. Profound and rolicking. Enjoyed immensely!
"Sleep is supposed to be"."Sleep is supposed to be" by Emily Dickinson
https://allpoetry.com/Sleep-is-supposed-to-be
https://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.c...f-35-1848.html
Enigmatic sleep... Enjoyed the poem and the summaries :) Oh, to sleep and dream.
"The low sandy beach and the thin scrub pine," - George Santayana; Cape Cod... https://allpoetry.com/Cape-Cod
Enjoyed the poem. The feelings expressed seem so very up to date to me.
"Under its branches, I picnicked with Mom"."Russian Olive" by Andrea Hollander
https://triggerfishcriticalreview.co...rea-hollander/
Wonderful retrospective poem; a stream of consciousness elicited from the memory of the falling of an old Olive tree. Enjoyed :)
"Violets, I hold you" - Ruby Archer; Violets... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/ruby-archer/violets/
Sweet violet poem!
"Where does the clerk of the" ."The Secret of it" by Amos Russel Wells
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/positive-poems/ #2
Delightful poem... choose joy ! Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name/title:
"Body is the bodhi tree" - Shenxiu/Derek Lin; Shenxiu’s Poem... https://taoism.net/shenxius-poem/
The story behind Shenxiu's poem is even more interesting as the poem itself because it relates the process of adquiring supreme wisdom. It somehow profundises the more concrete idea of the two doors in the poem by Amos Wells.
"Yours a dog's life, do you moan?"." A Dog's Life" by Anonymous
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/positive-poems/ #5
Yes :)
A poem of oppression, or perhaps just poverty, on two levels. Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:
"And now the lamp is out and now the night is silent and clear" - Zacharias Topelius; Milky Way... https://allmogens.se/en/poetry/vintergatan/
Maybe it's ironic for dogs, unless they are strays or are owned by bad people, don't, ead dogs lives.
Lol!I followed your link and landed on a Swedish site. Followed the link on Google, same Swedish site. Fortunately found the beautiful poem here: https://bellmansenglish.substack.com/p/the-milky-way.
"A butterfly among the flowers"."“The Butterfly And The Sundial” by A. M. Stewart
https://wordwool.com/poems-about-butterflies/
Weird... my History link did the same so I at least copied the url correctly... glad you could find it - it is such a wonderful poem :)
Delightful butterfly poem... Enjoyed :)
"Butterflies are white and blue" - Edna St. Vincent Millay; Mariposa... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8476151-M...incent-Millay/
Ai!An ephemeral life. In Portuguese "Mariposa" is the nightly equivalent of the butterfly, brown and with small, long, folded wings, that dies when exposed to the heat of the bulbs of light.
"Come and marvel at the sunset!". "Storm-Sun"
by Ruby Archer
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-storms/
Mariposa is generic for butterfly in Spanish I believe. I have a poem somewhere on LitNet (games?) that uses many exotic names for butterflies... it's a .png, .gif, or .jpg so not really searchable, same for my Padlet*. There's also my La Mariposa de Hierro: En Dios es Vida Pura titled poem, though the poem itself is in better English than my poor Spanish in the title.
*Note: Just made my .png, .gif, or .jpg butterfly poem searchable on my Padlet using the search term "butterfly"... Its title is oh, butterfly!
Wonderful language giving color to the storm. My first impression was that the people fearing the storm had been in drought and perhaps now expect a flood ? Dunno. Enjoyed very much :)
"Detestable race, continue to expunge yourself, die out." - Edna St. Vincent Millay; Apostrophe To Man ... https://allpoetry.com/Apostrophe-To-Man
I'm still rather stupid at using QR code. I didn't find the search symbol to look for your poem.
I like Edna Millay better at each poem by her I read. How up to date this poem is.
"Each morning is a time of new delight."."Beachmont"
by Ruby Archer
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/beach-poems/
Cntl-F works in a pinch.
Up to date: unfortunately
Wonderful poem... triggers my longing for the sea. Enjoyed :)
"For all those beaten, for the broken heads," - Stephen Vincent Benet; Litany for Dictatorships... https://www.poemine.com/Stephen-Vinc...atorships.html
"We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong." What else can I say if it's terribly true?
"Grace spare not and spare no labour"."Children's Anthem" by Berthold Brecht
https://allpoetry.com/poem/9738405-C...Bertolt-Brecht
Happy Easter !!!
Sad, but true :(
Love of country... Enjoyed :)
"How doth thee" - Lewis Carroll; The Crocodile... https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/p...&episode_no=12
Thanks! A happy after Easter!
A grim poem! Enjoyed the presentation.
"I may not reach the heights I seek,"I Will Be Worthy of It "
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/positive-poems/ #15
ABABCC "I will be worthy of it."... Enjoyed :)
"January marches joyously through the Deep South" - Lady Dragonwyck; J I V I N'... https://allpoetry.com/contest/238558...with-letter-J-
Charming spring acrostic!
"Keep a bright face, darling,"."Keep a Bright Face"
by Kate Slaughter McKinne
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/positive-poems/ #14
Delightful uplifting poem :) Enjoyed. Reminded me of a song lyric: "Always look at the bright side of life" from the ribald movie The Life of Brian.
"Let us be kind;" - Walter Lomax Childress; Let Us Be Kind... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/wal...et-us-be-kind/
Tender conforting poem! Enjoyed!
"Make me too brave to lie or be unkind."." A Prayer for Every Day by Mary Carolyn Davies
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/mar...for-every-day/
The altruist within me leapt with joy :)
"Now this is the story of Olaf" - Katherine Mansfield; Fairy Tale... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8447801-F...rine-Mansfield
Enjoyed this tender poem. I knew K M only as an author of short stories, not as a poet.
"Outside the sky is light with stars;"."Camomile Tea" by Katherine Mansfield.
https://allpoetry.com/Camomile-Tea