Alphabetical Poem First Lines

re: I agree with you. I think this is specially true of modern poetry. Older poems have references too, but, at least it seems to me, develop solid themes like "love", "death", "nature" or religious themes which usually can be recognized without much difficulty or parallel studies. With modern poems, special the experimental ones, one sometimes lands in a peculiar universe, where one has to feel more at home to understand what is going on. But that makes them particularly interesting, specially if one has a strong sensibility to guide one as you have.

Yes, Marianne Moore "discusses" with much charm what she considers real poetry :).

Imagination by Margaret Alice- Now is this a poem or an essay or both?

"Love set you going like a fat gold watch. "Morning Song (1961) by Sylvia Plath
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/morning-song/

Good points... re:Imagination: I'm leaning to both.

re: Sylvia's poem is incredible in the use of language.

"maybe the answer is simple," - Shelby Ensign; The Healing Power Of Mother Nature... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/po...-mother-nature

The Healing Power Of Mother Nature-Simple and to the point.

"Now in thy dazzling half-oped eye," A Mother to Her Waking Infant (1790)by Joanna Baillie

https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poe...waking-infant/

Sweet poem: "Become my sure and cheering stay;
Wilt care for me and be my hold,
When I am weak and old." :)

"One day there passed by a company of cats a wise dog." - Kahlil Gibran; The Wise Dog... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-wise-dog/

Kahlil Gibran; The Wise Dog...Lol!

"Poetry? It’s a hobby. "What The Chairman Told Tom (1967) by Basil Bunting
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poe...rman-told-tom/

lol ! - "Nasty little words, nasty long words,
it’s unhealthy.
I want to wash when I meet a poet."

"Quis hic locus, quae regio, quae mundi plaga?" - T. S. Eliot; Marina... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/marina-0

Latin: “What place is this, what region, what area of the world?”

T. S. Eliot; Marina- Beautiful but difficult poem. Looked for a analysis:https://poemanalysis.com/t-s-eliot/marina/
Maybe the nautical imagery could also be related to the discovery of America: America as a dauther of the British Empire?

"Rose, harsh rose" Sea Rose (1916) by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/sea-rose/

re: Marina... good find :)

re: Sea Rose... https://www.google.com/search?q=sea+...ih=570&dpr=1.1

Quote:

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wikipedia: Sea rose
Orphium is a plant genus in the Gentian family (Gentianaceae), endemic to South Africa. The name derives from the legendary Greek musician Orpheus. The genus contains a single accepted species, Orphium frutescens, commonly known as the sea rose.

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From the critique: "Clearly the ‘sea rose’ is an analogue, a metaphor. For the poet herself, perhaps, or for the poetry she writes? For both? The poem is delicate, fragile looking, spare, stoical, as if sculpted in air." - Enjoyed :)

"somebody knew Lincoln somebody Xerxes" - e.e. cummings; Portraits X... https://cummings.ee/book/tulips-and-...m/portraits-x/

re: Link on e e cummings. Have to read more about this poet, reminds me a bit of Carlos Drummond de Andrade:
https://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/cummings/Notes.htm

"To think that, as a boy of thirteen, I would grapple". Pineapples And Pomegranates by Paul Muldoon
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...on/poems/15668

Good find on ee cummings... I found this which prolly overlaps: https://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/poet/e-e-cummings

Pineapples And Pomegranates a tongue and cheek reality check.

"Unto my books so good to turn" - Emily Dickinson; LXXIV... https://www.bartleby.com/113/1074.html

Thanks for the link on e e cummings. Interesting modernist poet, have to read more by him.

Charming poem about books by Emily Dickinson. Identified but turned the feelings from my somewhat dusty library to my e-books.

"Valleys lay in sunny vapor," Thanksgiving Turkey by George Parsons Lathrop
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...g-turkey-22655

re: Thanksgiving Turkey... not much left unsaid. The repeated "Thanksgiving turkey." in each L6 of every stanza got old quick... otherwise enjoyed :)

"When the tea is brought at five o'clock," - Harold Monro; Milk For The Cat... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/milk-for-the-cat/

re: You are right. Thanksgiving Turkey is not such a great poem. Chose it more because of the theme.

"Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow!" Sour Grapes by William Carlos Williams
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/wcw-sg3.html#32

lol... whimsical WCW :)

"Zzzzz" - Mark Toney; 'Za Zucchini Zinfandel... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/za_z...fandel_1213939

Lol! _"Za Zucchini Zinfandel"

"And as to being in a fright," Phantasmagoria by Lewis Carroll
https://www.rd.com/list/funny-poems/

lol... Enjoyed the first canto and will continue later :)

"Breathing autumn air" - Adele Maritz; Living Season... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/living-season-2

Living season-US haiku?

"Call me no more, O gentle stream," To a River in the South by Sir Henry John Newbolt
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...he-south-27936

re: Haiku: definitions are muddled...

• https://thehaikufoundation.org/new-t...at-is-haiku-2/
• https://www.masterclass.com/articles...n-4-easy-steps
• https://literaryterms.net/haiku/

To a River in the South... enjoyed this somber toned poem.

"Doctor, you say there are no haloes" - Lisel Mueller; Monet Refuses The Operation...
https://www.poetrycat.com/lisel-muel...-the-operation

Thanks for the links, coming back to them!

Loved this poem about painting! Looked up Lisel Mueller up:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisel_Mueller

"Each life converges to some centre" The Goal by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (pay attention to the last lines of each strophe)

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...son/goal-13655

re: Lisel Mueller - very accomplished poet !

re: The Goal... "A goal, To dare. To touch, The sky! Again." My cousin had delightful sensibilities :)

"‘Ferry me across the water," - Christina Georgina Rossetti; Ferry Me Across The Water... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ferr...oss-the-water/

re: :) Ferry Me Across The Water... A new take on the myth of Charon? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon...d%20the%20dead.

"GOD says to me with a kind" God's Wheel by Shel Silverstein
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...in/poems/14825

re: Charon... I don't believe so... seems consistent.

re: God's Wheel... :)

"How beautiful! A garden fair as heaven," - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; The Park... https://www.litscape.com/author/Joha.../The_Park.html

Enjoyed The Park...Wondering what park he had in mind.
"I am drunk with the honey wine" Fragment: Wine Of The Fairies by Percy Bysshe Shelley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-fairies-31404

re: "What garden... " perform a Control-F searching for "garden" and then "park" within the following .pdf (after it has fully loaded) to see into the psyche and genius (a small look perhaps) of Goethe and his gardens and parks: file:///D:/Downloads/hellmuth_daniel_f_198612_ms_303179.pdf

re: Fragment: Wine Of The Fairies.... delightful færie tale ! :)

"June's vibrant lace has drifted" - Lady Bird; JUNE (25W)... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1219072/june-25w/

re:Thanks! I guess you mean the thesis in Architecture Poetry and the Art of Building by Daniel Hellmuth. Wonderful find!
I didn´t know that Goethe´s intense thirst of knowledge extended to the planning and building of gardens! And, at that time, the gardens of prominent people like him weren´t small.

re: JuneCharming Poem

"THE kings they came from out the south," Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/...elen03.html#21

Wonderful poem... ramping up for Christmas :)

"Last night I lay awake and heard the wind," - Madison Julius Cawein; The Jongleur... https://internetpoem.com/madison-jul...jongleur-poem/

Enjoyed The Jongleur

"Mirrors are not more silent". To A Cat by Jorge Luis Borges

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ges/poems/2930

Incredible poem :)

"No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist" - John Keats; Ode on Melancholy... https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/ode-on-melancholy

Beautiful but very sad poem!

"Onion," Ode To The Onion by Pablo Neruda
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...da/poems/15730

re: Ode to the Onion... A very emotive ode; "You make us cry without hurting us."...

"Photons lacerate the air in waves of ev'ry hue," - Diane Hine; Burning Blue... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/burning-blue-2/

Burning Blue... Enigmatic Poem

"Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither," Quicksand Years by Walt Whitman
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...and-years-1093

Enjoyed :) Found this analysis to give context: https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism...entry_621.html

"Rivers of birdsong" - Richard Grahn; Flowing (Haiku)... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1954601/flowing-haiku/

re: "Quicksand Years".
"The change in placement of "Quicksand Years" suggests a shift in meaning. In Drum-Taps, Whitman was attempting to capture the spirit and actions of a particular time and place, Civil War America. In this context, the "politics, triumphs, battles" appear to refer particularly to that historical cataclysm, against which only one's own inner self is proof. The poem's repositioning in the "Whispers" cluster changes the referent, for as both Blodgett and Miller point out, this grouping is more deliberately spiritual in emphasis. Miller argues that in this cluster the spiritual is shown to be true reality and the apparently real, mere illusion. Within this context, "Quicksand years" takes on a more universal significance—the concept that when external supports fail, one's only surety is the soul." Interesting how the meaning of the poem changes and it is moved from a collection to the other once the war is over. A proof of the importance of the context in literature.

"Rivers of Birdsong" What a charming Haiku.

"Sandstone" Gargantuan Origination: Inscription for the Collages of Dean Smith by Will Alexander
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-of-dean-smith

re: context... Agree

re: Sandstone... Say what ?

I was looking for a poem on Gummy Bears and found this rather long poem instead :)

"This English Thames is holier far than Rome," - Oscar Wilde; The Burden Of Itys... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1226/the-burden-of-itys/

Enjoyed! Arcadian idyll against Roman Catholicism, Greek mythology in a nutshell. Found an uncensored version of the poem
https://www.bartleby.com/143/25.html

"Unrisen splendour of the brightest sun" Unrisen splendour of the brightest sun...
by Percy Bysshe Shelley

https://www.litscape.com/author/Perc...htest_Sun.html

re: The Burden Of Itys - The version I linked to is the most egregious and ridiculous example of censorship I've ever seen; organ, weed, virgin, murder, thrust, lusty, slope (yeah, sure), bloody... just crazy in the context of the poem's lines/stanzas. Rant ends here.

re: Unrisen splendour of the brightest sun - reads like a poem about depression to me.

"A void is in the sky!" - Mary Gardiner Horsford; The Lost Pleiad.... https://www.poetrycat.com/mary-gardi...he-lost-pleiad

re: The Burden Of Itys -So You can imagine the perplexity of a non native.

https://artsandculture.google.com/as...00000003%7D%7D

"We came from our own country in a red room" Originally (1990)by Carol Ann Duffy
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/originally/

Pleides:
https://www.google.com/search?q=plei...t=opera&hs=R8I

Beautiful statue, perhaps Merope, as I peruse wikipedia: "The loss of one of the sisters, Merope, in some myths may reflect an astronomical event wherein one of the stars in the Pleiades star cluster disappeared from view by the naked eye."... "Merope, youngest of the Pleiades.[19] In other mythic contexts, she married Sisyphus[20] and, becoming mortal, faded away. Merope bore Sisyphus several sons including Glaucus."

re: Originally... I can relate to this poem in more than some little measure. Interesting poet. Enjoyed very much :)

"Xylophone" - Ramesh Anand; Xylophone...
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/xylophone_455369

"Xylophone" -Interesting nanopoem

"You appear," You by Rafael Cadenas

https://poems.com/poem/you/

re: You - Incredible poem :)

"Zoning" - Jerry Wayne Lawrence, Jr. Z.O.N.E.... https://www.poetry.com/poem/118387/z.o.n.e.