An original take!
A poem with its title starting with "q":
"Ho all you eager travelers!"."Quest"
by Winifred Webb
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/winifred-webb/quest/
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An original take!
A poem with its title starting with "q":
"Ho all you eager travelers!"."Quest"
by Winifred Webb
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/winifred-webb/quest/
"If you have found it, won't you tell / Its happy name to me?" Ah, wouldn't it be nice to edit out our bad memories... of course only if beneficial in the long run as we learn and grow from all experiences. Enjoyed :)
#20 "Roll on, roll on, you restless waves," - Aunt Effie; The Waves on the Sea-Shore... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/beach-poems/
Nice, friendly poem about setting limits. Wondering whose aunt Effie is.
"Squat-nosed and broad, of big and pompous port;"."The Swashbuckler
by Madison Cawein
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/mad...-swashbuckler/
Not exactly as I would imagine a swashbuckler, but enjoyed :)
"the night is calm and the breezes are free" - Robert Poleski; Jasmine Love... https://new.allpoetry.com/contest/28...-with-letter-J
A very scented poem. Enjoyed!
A poem with a title starting with "u":
"The sleep of this night deepens"."Under Stars"
by Tess Gallagher
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...61/under-stars
https://poemanalysis.com/tess-gallagher/under-stars/
Long distance relationship via snailmail. Enjoyed :)
"vain mankind!" - Kobayashi Issa; Vain Mankind!...
vain mankind!
even in blossoming Kyoto
autumn wind
Lol! Like the word snailmail.
Enjoyed the subtlety of the haiku.
"WHO will go drive with Fergus now,"."Who goes with Fergus?" by William Butler Yates
https://new.allpoetry.com/Who-Goes-With-Fergus-
Felt ambiguous about Fergus so did some digging:https://www.poetryverse.com/william-.../poem-analysis... I would follow Fergus :) Enjoyed :)Quote:
Published in the Rose: Written early in Yeats's career and published in The Rose (1892), this short lyric draws on Irish myth to offer a ritualized invitation. It summons the youth to join Fergus — a mythic ruler who governs woods, sea and stars — promising escape from anxious love and private brooding. The poem reflects Yeats's early romantic interest in national mythology and symbolic, consolatory imagery rather than autobiographical detail.
Poem with an 'x' in the title:
"As you are both Malcolm's" - Joshua Bennett; X... https://poetrysociety.org/poems-essa...a-bennett-on-x
:) Enjoyed the analysis!
No direct access to complete X poem. Your link doesn't work for me, other links I found on Google neither. Maybe blocked because it's a different country.
"Ye lonely peaks, with brows of ice!". "Swiss Mountains by Night"
by F.B. Money-Coutts
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-mountains/ #5
So sorry... it is a wonderful poem in my estimation and the page gave an author-analysis of the poem... that being said there are options to share the page, so I will hazard to quote the poem
The analysis was featured in The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016). All rights reserved. Reprinted courtesy of the author, so I wont quote from it.Quote:
X
As you are both Malcolm's
shadow & the black unknown
he died defending, I praise
your untold potential, the possible
worlds you hold within your body's
bladed frame. I love how you stand
in exultation, arms raised
to welcome the rain, the bolt,
whatever drops from the sky's slick shelf
without warning, as all plagues
do. Miracles too. & bombs that fall
from planes which hold men with eyes
aimed through long glass tubes. Tubes
that make a civilian's life look small.
Small enough to smoke. X marks the cross
-hairs, & the home an explosion turns to blur.
X marks the box on the form that bought
the bombs, paid the trigger man, sent
the senator's son off to school
without a drop of blood to temper
his smile, stain leather
boots, mar the occasion.
X: every algorithm's heart
-beat, how any & all adjacent
quantities bloom. A kiss.
How a signature knows
where to begin its looping
dance. Two hands balled
into fists, crossed
at the wrist, repping
the borough that gave
us b-boys, the Yankees,
my mother's left
hook, swift enough
to knock any living
thing off its feet
like a cartoon villain
bested by banana peel
or spilled oil, his eyes
now two black x's,
denoting absence.
The wrong answer
on a test. How
my great-great
grandfather,
who could not read,
rendered his name,
as if an homage
to his own opacity,
as if to say, I contain
the unthinkable, or, I abstain.
Loved these lines: "Repentant of renouncèd love, / Lies at your feet the lake". Enjoyed :)
Poet with a 'z' in their name:
"The rudder breaks, the sails are ripped, the roar" - Adam Mickiewicz; The Storm... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8532067-T...dam-Mickiewicz
It's certainly not your fault. It's from a living author, so there are rules to be followed. But thanks for sharing it, it's a great poem indeed, much of US culture and history in a few lines! Enjoyed it very much.
Very intense and probably realistic representation of a storm and the reactions of the crew of the ship attacked by it. Interesting poet.
"A wish is quite a tiny thing"."A Wish Is Quite a Tiny Thing"
by Annette Wynne
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/ann...-a-tiny-thing/
"And builds a safe nest anywhere." Enjoyed :)
"Be gentle, O hands of a child;" - Walter De La Mare; Dreams... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/dreams-39566436687
Delicate nostalgic poem
"Crocuses and violets,"."Crocuses and Violets" byHarvey Carson Grumbine
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/violet-poems/ #15
Cheery poem of 2-triolets. Enjoyed :)
"Dreaming for ever, vainly dreaming," - Thomas Moore; Dreaming For Ever... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...er-38012795405
Delicate but pessimistic.
"The Shell and the Heart
by Ruby Archer
Even as the shell doth glow
To myriad tints of beauty
Only upon that side
Not buried in the sand
But yielded to the magic
Of the sun,—
So will the heart take on
Its fairest hues of joy—
The radiance of being—
Turned to that light ineffable
Of love.
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/rub...and-the-heart/
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Beautiful poem :)
"Floating!" - Bliss Carman; Down The Songo... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...go-69578442006
Beautiful poem! Made for dreamers.
"Good morning, pretty Butterfly!"."The Captive Butterfly"
by Hannah Flagg Gould
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-freedom/ #29
Delightful interactive poem of fancy... with a happy ending. Enjoyed :)
"How strange are dreams. Last night I dreamed about you." - Emma Wheeler Wilcox; Only In Dreams... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ms-82055776970
Lol, a somewhat vindictive poem!
"I am myself—poor, foolish, weak—"."Addition" by Anonymous
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/friendship-poems/ #2
"My life is all a happy sum; / I'll add as long as figures come!" A simple calculus. Enjoyed :)
"June is here, the month of roses, month of brides and month of bees," - Edgar Albert Guest; June... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8470789-J...r-Albert-Guest
Nice, friendly June poem, but I sit here in the cold of a rainy day. I suppose the bees have all looked for shelter.
Still I much prefer this weather to the heat.
Poem by a poet with "k" in her nname
"Our blue sierras shone serene, sublime,"."A Mountain Storm" by Katharine Lee Bates
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/kat...ountain-storm/
I agree with the heat aversion... trying not to use the AC until the triple digits come. Can tolerate 91°F/33°C or so in the house, Tinky too :(
"All nature seemed convulsed in some fierce crime, / And then a rainbow, and behold! the sun / Went comforting the harebells one by one;" Stormy weather. Enjoyed :)
"Listen! the sombre foliage of the Pine," - Paul Hamilton Hayne; The Pine's Mystery... https://allpoetry.com/The-Pine's-Mystery
Some damp cloths strategically out of the reach of Tinky may help too. And ice cream and much, much water, for Tinky too.
A beautiful but dark nature poem. I love pines and never thought them sorrowful.
"Maids shout to breakfast in a merry strife,"."Farm Breakfast"
by John Clare
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/joh...arm-breakfast/
Enjoyed this rustic poem :)
"Now when I sleep the thrush breaks through my dreams" - Fredegond Shove; A Dream In Early Spring... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ng-71983810483
Beautiful poem about the ephemeral nature of life?
"Once a spider built a cobweb on a rainbow bright and gay,"A Rainbow Foundation"
by Anonymous
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/rainbow-poems/#9
""I'll be content / With foundations not so showy, but more firm and permanent!"" Enjoyed this spiritual poem :)
"Poet, a truce to your song!" - Richard Le Gallienne; Inscriptions (Of Poets And Poetry)... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ry-62209354170
Enjoyed this poem that exalts the small contributions.
Poem by a poet with 2 "qs" in his name
"Finches flash yellow through the Imperial"."To my Friend in the Capital"
by Qian Qi
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...e-capital.html
"But spring is no help to a man bewildered, / Who would be like a cloud upholding the Light of Heaven," Lovely, albeit melancholy poem of the imperial city. Enjoyed :)
#49 "Reflecting ragged" - Raymond Garfield Dandridge; A Brook... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-water/
Charming river poem.
"Soft little hush songs heard in the night,"."Birds at Night"
by Amos Russel Wells
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/bird-poems/ #11
Likening one's soul to a bird in the night, delicate poem. Enjoyed :)
"'Tis once in life our dreams come true," - Edward Smyth Jones; Harvard Square... https://originalpoems.com/poem?id=24952
Interesting poem. Looked for a bio of the poet, to see if that was a real episode in his life, but wasn't lucky.
"Up o'er the tops of the mountains,"."The Rainbow"
by Lizzie F. Baldy
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/rainbow-poems/ #14
Edward Smyth Jones: https://poets.org/poet/edward-smyth-jones
"Can the loved ones who have left us / Wander down the golden stair, / Bringing heaven from God's palace, / So that heaven is everywhere?" Enjoyed :)
#20 "Voice of the sea that calls to me," - William Stanley Braithwaite; Voice of the Sea... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/ocean-poems/
Thanks for the link with Jones' bio. Sadly the poem is the result of a real experience.
"I am part of your mystery—/Moved by the soul your own soul moves.".Enjoyed!
"WHERE shall we go for our garlands glad"." A Song of Autumn" by Adam Lindsay Gordon
https://new.allpoetry.com/A-Song-Of-Autumn
"But I go where the last year’s lost leaves go / At the falling of the year.’" Enjoyed :)
Poet with an 'x' in their name:
"for four out of the five years of its life, the Rafflesia arnoldii exists as a single strand of cells within" - Yin Xzi Ho; rafflesia in translation... https://allpoetry.com/poem/15295122-...-by-Yin-Xzi-Ho
One of your amazing discoveries, tailor: a budding poet. Loved the poem immensely, hope we will hear more from her.
"Watching the first sunlight"."Wild Oats"
by W. S. Merwin
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2021/0...by-w-s-merwin/
Found a nice short bio about Yin Xzi https://www.squamishchief.com/local-...poems-11291000
Another 'w' by you... "In my youth I believed in somewhere else / I put faith in travel / now I am becoming my own tree" Enjoyed :)
Cool, let me search for another 'x'...
Another poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name, which just happens to start with a 'y' so you may choose either a 'y' poem or a 'z' poem after :)
"You are Rapunzel fresh out the tower." - Wenyi Xue; letterboxd review of umma (2022)... https://aaww.org/letterboxd-review-of-umma-2022/
Lovely, also her site. But the poem you posted seems to come from a very young girl. Maybe an old poem, or she is impersonating a young girl.
Oh myohmy! Let's see what I can find to follow your wonderful text!
Poem by an poet with "z" in his name.
"All in the world know the beauty of the". "The Beauty of the Beautiful" by Lao Tzu
https://www.poetseers.org/the-poetse...-te-ching/2-2/
Enjoyed this philosophic poem: "Therefore the sage manages affairs without doing anything, and conveys his instructions without the use of speech." :)
"After the doctors diagnosed my violences," - Amrita Chand; After the doctors diagnosed my violences, I guessed I’d die immortal... https://aaww.org/1947-poem/
Again a stunning female poem. The feeling of foreigness is expressed in very unusual images.
We have kept the same letters for so long, that I have to get used to the change.
"Break, break, break,"."Break, Break, Break" by Alfred Tennison.
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/alf...k-break-break/ #2
Me too.
"And the stately ships go on / To their haven under the hill" Enjoyed :)
#4 "Clouds that wander through the sky," - Anonymous; The Clouds... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-clouds/