Enjoyed the fine irony of the poem!
"Closed eyes can't see the white roses,"."Give Them the Flowers Now"
by Leigh M. Hodges
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/inspirational-poems/ #34
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Enjoyed the fine irony of the poem!
"Closed eyes can't see the white roses,"."Give Them the Flowers Now"
by Leigh M. Hodges
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/inspirational-poems/ #34
"So give them the flowers now!" :)
"Doubt me, my dim companion! " - Emily Dickinson; Surrender... https://app.textopian.com/read/1el2d!1?ppn=1
Lol! ED on a bad day, disappointed with whoever inspired that poem.
"Each morning is a time of new delight."."Beachmont"
by Ruby Archer
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/beach-poems/
"Each day when first the waves about me roll,
In one long sob I seem to lose my breath.
A trembling takes my limbs at touch of brine,
As if the ocean's heart beat close to mine." Love this poem so much :)
If I live near the sea I would wake at gegenschein to take it in all the daylight long :)
"From the icy niche where men placed you" - Gabriela Mistral; Death Sonnet I ... https://allpoetry.com/Death-Sonnet-I
Impressive sonnet, an unusual reaction to loss!
"Give away her gowns,"."Chorus" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
https://allpoetry.com/Chorus
Kind of a flip elegy poem... Enjoyed :)
"Her little hot room looked over the bay" - Katherine Mansfield; Sanary... https://allpoetry.com/Sanary
I'm loving KM's poetry.
"I climbed up the karaka tree"."When I Was a Bird" by Katherine Mansfield
https://allpoetry.com/When-I-was-a-Bird
Wonderful poem! The joys of being a child lost in thought :)
Oops... used that one already... back later :)
Poem with a title starting with 'j':
"For seven years, the shepherd Jacob slaved" - Luís Vaz de Camões; Jacob...
https://www.poetryinternational.com/...103-8411_JACOB
Sadly the baroque oppositions got lost in this somewhat free translation, but it is still beautiful.
Poem with a title beginning with "k":
"I've a humble little motto"."Keep A-Pluggin' Away"
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/pau...-pluggin-away/
I thought so :(
"Be thou toiler, poet, priest, / Keep a-pluggin' away." Enjoyed. Reminded me the axiom "How do you eat an elephant ? - one bite at a time" :)
"Let us go now into the forest." - Gabriela Mistral; Pine Forest... https://allpoetry.com/Pine-Forest
Lol!
Charming poem, unusual take on nature.
"My hand, a little raised, might press a star-"Sonnet on an Alpine Night" by Dorothy Parker
https://allpoetry.com/Sonnet-On-An-Alpine-Night
Sad poem... enjoyed the poem and the summary.
"Now tidy your house," - A. K. Ramanujan ; Chicago Zen... https://www.poemine.com/A-K-Ramanujan/Chicago-Zen.html
Enjoyed very much! Very symbolic images.
"Others make verses of grace."."Ardor" by Gamaliel Bradford
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8493655-A...aliel-Bradford
"But my songs must tickle and bite / And burn with the ardor of living": Enjoyed :)
"Poets are singing the whole world over" - Clement Scott; Rus In Urbe... http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...s-in-urbe.html
Beautiful poem! Another enigmatic LitNet situation. Sometimes the Poetry Atlas poems are displayed, sometimes they aren't. At present I can read and use them.
"Queenly lily, fair and fragrant,"."Lily of the Nile" by Martha Lavinia Hoffman
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...-the-nile.html
Enjoyed the ode/homage to the Lily of the Nile :)
"Restless dragonfly, darting, dancing" - Arthur Christopher Benson; The Dragonfly... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/dragonfly-poems/
Ai!
"Sure maybe ye've heard the storm-"Birds"
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/bird-poems/ #3
Wistful sad poem. Enjoyed :)
"There's a dandy little fellow," - Nellie M. Garabrant; Dandelion... https://rainydaypoems.com/poems-for-...e-m-garabrant/
Cute and realistic poem. The transformation through aging. Snif!
"Unless I yield my love to you, you swear"."Mood" by Dorothy Parker
https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem26.php?pid=10013042
Doubt. Enjoyed. :)
"VENUS, take my votive glass:" - Matthew Prior; The Lady who offers her Looking-Glass to Venus... https://englishverse.com/poems/the_l...glass_to_venus
Incisive and sucint.
"We have met,"."To a Butterfly" by William H. Davies
https://wordwool.com/poems-about-butterflies/
Lovely butterfly encounter poem... Enjoyed :)
Poem title with an 'x' in it:
"Hand shaking on the stop-****, she looks" - Imtiaz Dharker; X... https://www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/x-14098
Tense poem. Seems someone is taking forbidden water and getting shot in the leg.
"You are everybody’s child:"Grace" by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers
https://www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/grace-5934
Wonderful language... Enjoyed :)
Poem with a 'z' in the title:
"Citadel of our best names—angsty Zooey &" - Julie Marie Wade; Z... https://poets.org/poem/z
Enjoyed this original poem so much, playing with the possibilities of the letter "z"! :)
"A thousand winters' words have sounded clearer"."* * * [A thousand winters]" by Matvei Yankelevich
https://www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/t...-winters-13015
"As day dawns misty, I'm a ghost." Deep poem, I may have to revisit. Enjoyed :)
"Bless us, and save us! What's here?" - Paul Hamilton Hayne; The Ground Squirrel... https://www.poetryplatform.org/poem/...round-squirrel
Lovely poem!
"Child"."One With The Sun" by A F Moritz
https://www.poetryplatform.org/poem/...e-with-the-sun
Enjoyed so much. Reminded me of my youthful wanderlust :)
"Dandelions—Dandelions! I used to pass you by;" - Franklin Stanwood ; Dandelions... https://www.wildsidehealth.co.uk/pos...h-lion-s-teeth
Enjoyed poem and article. Will look for Dandelion tea in the herb store nearby.
"Exhilaration is the Breeze"."Exhilaration is the Breeze" by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poetryplatform.org/poem/...-is-the-breeze
https://allpoetry.com/poem/14326763-...mily-Dickinson
Enjoyed Emily's poem. I think of losing one's self in a book and coming out exhilarated... :)
"Fearless little pioneer," - Thomas Hill; The Earliest Fire-Fly... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/tho...iest-fire-fly/
Lovely poem! It soars together with the firefly.
"God made the little birds to sing,"."God made the little birds to sing," by Anonymous
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/bird-poems/
Sweet little quatrain :)
#3 nearly 1/2 way down:
"Happy little Dandelion" - Helen Barron Bostwick; Little Dandelion... https://khamush.com/dandelion-poems/
Sweet poem about the life ciclus of the Dandelion ( that of humans implied).
"It took centuries"."Shunya" by Shanta Acharya
https://www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/shunya-13640
"reflecting sum of the universe, / reducing all to Itself, always transforming... " Enjoyed :)
"JAZZ is my religion and it alone do I dig the jazz " - Ted Joans; JAZZ IS MY RELIGION... https://aaregistry.org/poem/jazz-is-...-by-ted-joans/
Nice homage to USA Jazz
I poem by an poet with name beginning with "K".
"Over the murmurous choral of dim waves". " Starlight at Sea"
by Katharine Lee Bates
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-stars/ #13
"life that raves / Like surf against the rocks". A spiritual poem of a beginning of man culminating in the empurpled hills with our Shepherd... Enjoyed :)
"Love! Love! Your tenderness," - Katherine Mansfield; Covering Wings... https://allpoetry.com/Covering-Wings
Enjoyed this interesting poem!
"Mortal, mortal, have you seen"."The Queen of Night"
by Bliss Carman
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/bli...ueen-of-night/
Love the watercolor... First time encountering Astarte: "Then, enraptured, you shall hear / Secrets for a poet's ear." Enjoyed :)
"Nature has a thousand choirs" - Freeman Edwin Miller; Nature Has A Thousand Choirs... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...rs-79289121776
A joyous poem!
"Once in the fields she watched her"."Joan D'Arc
by James B. Kenyon
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-courage/
Enjoyed this side of Joan :)
"Poets love Nature, and themselves are love." - John Clare; Poets Love Nature--A Fragment ... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...nt-31096414169