Enjoyed these query acrostics!
"Run, little rivulet, run!"."The Rivulet"
by Lucy Larcom
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/luc...m/the-rivulet/
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Enjoyed these query acrostics!
"Run, little rivulet, run!"."The Rivulet"
by Lucy Larcom
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/luc...m/the-rivulet/
Wonderful bright poem. Enjoyed :)
# 17 "Still as" - Adelaide Crapsey; Moon-Shadows... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-the-moon/
Definitive!
"That Mississippi chicken shack."."My Heart" by Kim Addonizio
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...kim-addonizio/
:) Associative poem of the heart. Enjoyed very much.
# 15 "Up hill, with heavy load," - John Edward Everett; The Stone in the Road... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poe...t-perspective/
A wise poem. Enjoyed!
"VERSE, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying,"Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Youth and Age"
https://englishverse.com/poems/youth_and_age
"Life is but thought: so think I will / That Youth and I are housemates still." Enjoyed very much :)
# 12 "We are the music-makers," - Arthur O'Shaughnessy; Ode... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poe...t-perspective/
Interesting reflection on human activities. Enjoyed!
Poem with a title beginning with X:
"With the frenzy of an old"."XIV" by Derek Walcott
https://genius.com/Derek-walcott-xiv-annotated
Just a bit surreal... enjoyed the language very much. Enjoyed :)
"Yes, I am great because," - Dovid Hofshteyn; I believe... https://mkwm.humanities.uchicago.edu...-by-hofshteyn/
Beautiful poem! And although writen by a Jewish poet, I think it could be applied to any persecuted human group!
Poem by a poet with a Z in her name:
"What's the best thing in the world?"."The Best Thing In The World" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ing/poems/4607
Surprising poem: "What's the best thing in the world? / —Something out of it, I think." Found a summary at allpoetry: https://allpoetry.com/The-Best-Thing-in-the-World Enjoyed :)
"After setting rat poison in the kitchen corners, placing" - Phi Ta Khon; The Face Beneath the Face... https://thewisescribe.org/2026/06/01...eath-the-face/
Lol! Seems AI didn't enjoy Brownings poem so much!
Beautifully written text. Enjoyed it so much! Reminded me of my own moments when going on a trip even without maskerades.
"Because birds will show only"."Why Birds Fly"
Simeon Dumdum, Jr.
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2012/0...eon-dumdum-jr/
"Moving without leaving. Leaving without moving." I can relate. Enjoyed :)
#8 "Chisel in hand stood a sculptor boy" - George Washington Doane; Life Sculpture... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poe...t-perspective/
Solid image! Impressive, but I imagine dreams as more vaporous and indefinite.
"Darwin"."Consolation" by Wisława Szymborska
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2012/0...wa-szymborska/
Lol, Darwinian books... survival only by being successful in an uplifting ending... Enjoyed :)
"Every sort of day together," - Annette Wynne; Days... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/annette-wynne/days/
"Every sort of day together,/Makes a year of every weather," Enjoyed!
"Four things a man must learn to do"."Four Things"
by Henry Van Dyk
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/hen...e/four-things/
A truism... Enjoyed :)
"Grandfather Gordon" - Donall Dempsey; HIS WOODEN LEG STARES AT ME...... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2794168...-stares-at-me/
Lol Snif! This seems directed at my recently acquired walking stick!
"How beautiful the sun as it skims"."Ten Degrees" by Tom Chandle
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2005/1...-tom-chandler/
Certainly not :)
"Tom Chandler was named the Brown University Phi Beta Kappa Poet." - especially liked these lines: "How beautiful this frost, female fingers / tracing down the glass", but these lines bring me pause: "the only perfect tragedy, / which is of course to never have been born." Enjoyed :)
"I could swear I’ve been here before," - Dovid Hofshteyn; On the Way... https://mkwm.humanities.uchicago.edu...-by-hofshteyn/
Beautiful poem! I like Dovid Hofshteyn very much!
Poem with a title starting with "j". One has to be quick be
"Drum on your drums, batter on your banjoes," . "Jazz Fantasia"
by Carl Sandburg
https://allpoetry.com/Jazz-Fantasia
A most surprising poem. Enjoyed :)
"Karaoke" - Caren Krutsinger; LIVE MUSIC... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poems/short/karaoke
Enjoyed the karaoke poem and the karaoke page.
"Look, the trees"."In Blackwater Woods" by Mary Oliver
https://allpoetry.com/poem/15374219-...-Mary-J-Oliver
Such a wonderful scene Mary sets... and "when the time comes to let it / go, / to let it go." Enjoyed :)
"My sleeping children are still flying dreams" - Spike Milligan; Summer Dawn... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8503107-S...Spike-Milligan
Loved this blending of the magic with the commonplace.
"Now, brighter than the host that all night"."Daybreak"
by Richard H. Dana
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/peace-poems/ #7
Must have been a Wednesday's child... full of woes. Enjoyed :)
#11 "Oh, please don't feel guilty" - Anonymous; Crossing Over... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/ins...s-about-death/
Lol!
Seem Anonymous wasn't very happy either.
"poetry has dual purposes you know"."Poetry has dual Purposes" by Caren Krutsinger
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poems/short/karaoke
Poetry: "sometimes so rhythmic, you can enter a karaoke sing" ..
lol.Enjoyed :)
Poem title with a 'q' in it:
"if you can’t scientifically explain it" - Rg Gregory; haunting the quark... https://share.google/yIlKe2QXXpjLQ3NkT
A rather serious poem. It seeming nebulous is part of it. Enjoyed!
"Rain fell in a post-romantic way."."I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run" by Matthea Harvey
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...atthea-harvey/
Odd but enjoyable poem. "Glum was the woman in the ostrich feather hat."... :)
"Star, high star, far in the blue," - Annette Wynne; Blue-Eyed Grass of May... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/ann...-grass-of-may/
Charming song poem
"The gardener does not love to talk," ."The Gardener" by Robert Louis Stevenson
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/rob.../the-gardener/
Delightful poem of a child looking to the gardener for a playmate... Enjoyed :)
"Umbrella, how I’d worried Umbrella" - Rachel Treacher; Umbrella... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/umbrella_1805667
Lol!!Jolly poem! Enjoyed the play with language on an unusual theme
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SVM0PbQ7wpY
"VERSE-MAKING was least of my virtues: I viewed with despair"." Verse-Making Was Least of My Virtues"
written by Robert Browning
https://www.poemine.com/Robert-Brown...y-Virtues.html
I'll check out the movie on TUBI - a free content provider :)
Update: Watched the movie (spoilers)... A light tragedy about love with a happy ending during a simpler time. Enjoyed the lightness of the music throughout; not too disconcerting with the dialog always being sung in French (with English subtitles) :)
"Love-making,--how simple a matter!"... Enjoyed this surprising poem by Browning :)
#3 "We played a game—the moon and I," - Annette Wynne; The Moon and I... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-the-moon/
:) Watched it ages ago, the music remained with me for a long time
A poem with X in the title:
"In a dream I spoke with the Cyprus-born," XII
by Sappho
https://poemanalysis.com/sappho/xii/
Enjoyed the poem and summary :)
#1 "Young men's counsel breathes desire," - Amos Russel Wells; Old Men's Counsel... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/wisdom-poems/
Loved the comparison, though in life atitudes often get mixed up.
Poem by a poet with a Z in her name:
"Yet, my pretty sportive friend,"."To Flush, My Dog" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ing/poems/4611
Good dog :) My wife got a puppy maybe a month ago. First thing in my mind when I read the title was good thing it wasn't a goldfish. Enjoyed the poem :)
#5 "And what is death? the end of being here,—" - Benjamin Hine; Death ... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/ins...s-about-death/