Lovely cloud poem.
"Dear heart dost thou complain"."The Blessed Rain"
by Frank L. Stanton
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-rain/ #34
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Lovely cloud poem.
"Dear heart dost thou complain"."The Blessed Rain"
by Frank L. Stanton
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-rain/ #34
Bring us the blessed rain... Enjoyed :)
#10 "Each that we lose takes part of us;" - Emily Dickinson; Each that we lose takes part of us... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-the-moon/
Few lines that say so much! Enjoyed!
"From the lips of Morning,"."Sky Blooms"
by Amos Russel Wells
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/sunrise-poems/ #4
Enjoyed :)
"Golden Fairies, one and all—" - Thomas Lake Harris ; Song Of The Fairies’ Gathering... https://allpoetry.com/Song-Of-The-Fairies-Gathering
Enjoyed! I think we badly need another Golden Age or, at least more emphaty and harmony.
"Have you seen red-cap moss"."Red-cap Moss" by Hilda Conklin
https://allpoetry.com/Red-cap-Moss
Me too :)
Lovely, lovely short poem that suits my sensibilities :)
#21 "It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; The Harvest Moon... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-the-moon/
Enjoyed this descriptive poem!
"Jesus!thy Crucifix"."Jesus! thy Crucifix" by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poemine.com/Emily-Dickin...-Crucifix.html
Surprising poem by Emily. Found a summary: https://poemanalysis.com/emily-dicki...-thy-crucifix/ Enjoyed :)
"Kaleidoscopic colours of your affectionate heart paint the" - Amy Sullivan; A Special Acrostic For Karen... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poems/best/karen
For me likewise! Thanks for the summary!
Enjoyed this warm "K" poem!
"Letters swallow themselves in seconds."."Burning the old Year" by Naomi Shibab Nye
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2013/0...mi-shihab-nye/
"So much of any year is flammable, / lists of vegetables, partial poems." Haven't thought of burning my partial poems... they become seeds for later days. Enjoyed :)
"Mortal, mortal, have you seen" - Bliss Carman; The Queen of Night... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/bli...ueen-of-night/
Wouldn't think of burning anything written that could still be expanded.
Majestic poem! Enjoyed!
"No stir in the air, no stir in the sea,"The Inchcape Rock"
by Robert Southey
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/rob...inchcape-rock/
https://en-wikipedia-org.translate.g...t&_x_tr_pto=tc
"A sound as if with the Inchcape Bell, / The Devil below was ringing his knell." Karma... Hope no other ships were lost (oops, there were). Enjoyed both the poem and your summary find :)
"Oh, well the world is dreaming" - Bliss Carman; Under the April Moon... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/bli...he-april-moon/
A dreamlike poem!
"Poor, pitiful race of unthinkers!"."Roots and Earth" by Ruby Archer
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-words/
"No more can our words be enduring, / If thoughts have not truth for their birth." So true. Enjoyed :)
"Queen conch, grovel gallantly aground!" - Dan Wilder; In Formation / Information... https://allpoetry.com/poem/13849249-...-by-Dan-Wilder
Interesting poem, though not sure I understood everything, there is so much word play.
"Roads go ever ever on,"."The Road Goes Ever On"
by J. R. R. Tolkien
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/j-r...-goes-ever-on/
I love Tolkien's poems and songs. Enjoyed this tiny poem :)
#15 "Sighed the languid Moon to the Morning Star:" - John B. Tabb; A Spy... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-the-moon/
Till I came across it I didn't know that Tolkien writes poetry.
Charming moon poem.
"The birds have vanished down the sky."."Zazen on Ching-t'ing Mountain"
by Li Po (Translated by Sam Hamill)
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2016/0...tain-by-li-po/
Delightful poem of becoming lost/insignificant within one's milieu. Enjoyed :)
#6 "Up from the dark the moon begins to creep;" - Thomas Bailey Aldrich; Moonrise at Sea... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-the-moon/
Interesting images! Curious how the moon inspires so many different interpretations
"visiting a past self. Being anywhere makes me thirsty."Being in This World Makes Me Feel Like a TimeTraveler" by Kaveh Akbar
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2020/0...y-kaveh-akbar/
Confused that a follower of Mohamad would be interested in cocktails... or maybe that's the point, where temptation causes the protagonist ill ? Enjoyed :)
#12 "Where is my halcyon blue?" - Ruby Archer; In Cloudy Weather... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-clouds/
You've got a point there. Didn't notice it.One doesn't know if there has been a change of rules.
Lovely poem, lovely message!
A poem by a poet with x in her name:
"Your lovers have thrown flowers at"."Sacred Woman"
by Halima Xudoyberdiyeva
Translated from Uzbek by Johanna-Hypatia Cybeleia
https://johanna-hypatia.livejournal.com/60441.html
Powerful poem of the sacredness of women. Enjoyed :)
#10 "Ye clouds, who are the ornament of heaven," - John Brainard; Clouds... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-clouds/
Charming cloud poem!
A poem by a poet with a z in her name:
"This morning I dreamed I followed"."A morning dream" by Li Qingzhao
https://listentogenius.com/author.php/323
"The(y) argued with sharp words over paradoxes." Enjoyed this fantasy :)
"At the end of the road through the" - Bliss Carman; Moonrise... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/bliss-carman/moonrise/
Enjoyed this poem so complete and harmonic in itself!
"Beneath the holy oaks I wandered"."The Oak-Wood"
by Nicolaus Lenau
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/forest-poems/ #21
A wonderful tension throughout, childlike at first, then with anticipation... Enjoyed :)
#8 "Clouds that hide the sun with showers" - Anonymous; The Cloud Baskets... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-clouds/
I loved this filling of clouds with flowers.
"Dandelions—Dandelions! I used to pass"."Dandelions"
by Franklin Stanwood
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/dandelion-poems/ 16
Dandelions!!! At FHE tonight our hostess had a dandelion puff, given to her by a grandson, that was in a pot with a plant of some sort... perfection! :) Oh, loved the poem too :)
#41 "Everything has sisters, brothers," - Annette Wynne; An Orphan... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-the-moon/
Moon loneliness! Enjoyed the poem.
"From Heaven's Gate to Hampstead Heath". James Elroy Flecker,
"The Ballad of Hampstead Heath"
https://englishverse.com/poems/the_b...ampstead_heath
Rollicking ballad with a bereft Echo... Enjoyed :)
"Gone were but the Winter," - Christina Georgina Rossetti; Spring Quiet... https://allpoetry.com/Spring-Quiet
Idylical spring poem!Enjoyed!
"He watches the great ships swinging"."A Norse Lad" by Oscar H. Roesner
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/osc...r/a-norse-lad/
A longing for sea travel... enjoyed :)
#16 "I looked through others' windows" - Jessie Belle Rittenhouse; Windows... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poe...t-perspective/
Interesting poem about perspective. We have a saying in Portuguese: " The neighbor's lawn is always greener".
A poem with "j" in its title:
"Some flowers are withered and some joys have died;"."July"
by Helen Hunt Jackson
https://www.litscape.com/author/Hele...kson/July.html
Resilient Lilies: "In vain the cruel skies their hot rays shed; / The lily does not feel their brazen glare." Enjoyed :)
#2 "Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya;" - Various. American.; Kumbaya... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/lullabies/
Reminds me a bit of Gospel chant! Enjoyed!
This one you probably know. One often finds the melody in music caskets.
"Lullaby and good night,". "Brahm's Lullaby" (Lullaby and Goodnight)
by Johannes Brahms. German.
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/lullabies/
In German with English cc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6xCa4EiNcU
One mistaken translation: Tomorrow morning if it is God's will, you will be waked again (this line is repeated twice, there is nothing about God being absent or falling.
Sweet poem/song/video :)
"Move tirelessly" - Soso / Josef Stalin; To the Moon... https://thewisescribe.org/2012/04/08...-josef-stalin/
For Heaven's sake, tailor, didn't even read it.
"No man is an island,"."No Man is an Island"
by John Donne
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/joh...-is-an-island/
Ahhh... Soso had so much promise. In my country I see a resurgence of his works, much to my chagrin. Perhaps had he stuck with poetry :) I included him as I was exploring Russian Jewish poetry during a slightly later period, which will come up in subsequent posts, as a contrast of poets and personages (makes sense to me). Forgive me for ruffling your sensibilities. :(
"And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; / It tolls for thee." Classic poem by a master poet... Enjoyed :)
"O May I join the choir invisible" - George Eliot; The Choir Invisible... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/geo...oir-invisible/
It's not a matter of sensibility:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
I'm not astonished that his writings find new interest today.
Enjoyed this wonderful poem about human attitude.
"Physics says: go to sleep. Of course"."The Sciences Sing a Lullaby" by Albert Goldbarth
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...ert-goldbarth/
Ok.
Enjoyed this minimalist-treatise on sleep :)
̶"̶Q̶u̶i̶e̶t̶ ̶u̶t̶t̶e̶r̶s̶"̶ ̶-̶ ̶A̶m̶e̶t̶h̶y̶s̶t̶5̶;̶ ̶ ̶[̶i̶]̶P̶e̶a̶c̶e̶[̶/̶i̶]̶.̶.̶.̶ ̶[̶u̶r̶l̶]̶h̶t̶t̶p̶s̶:̶/̶/̶a̶l̶l̶p̶o̶e̶t̶r̶y̶.̶c̶o̶m̶/̶p̶o̶e̶m̶/̶1̶8̶2̶8̶8̶6̶4̶7̶-̶P̶e̶a̶c̶e̶-̶b̶y̶-̶A̶m̶e̶t̶h̶y̶s̶t̶5̶[̶/̶u̶r̶l̶]̶ :(
"Quick" - Lauri Meyers; QUERY - Acrostic Poetry for Procrastinators... https://www.laurimeyers.com/2012/07/...oetry-for.html... and 5-others included that I submit as to skip the letter 'q' 5-times in the future :)