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Sorry about the wrong link! - Your oaks probably represented danger. But it is sad: no shadow and it will take many years for new trees to grow.
Enjoyed this poem about Dante's Beatrice.
"Which is bigger,” he asks me, “the ocean or sky,”."Talking To My Son Before Sleep" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2012/0...a-trommer/amp/
"This is the way I want to love: in an idiom stronger / than tongues, I want to love in the way that tides pull / and release, like the moon which holds without touch,"... incredible poetry! :)
“If I were on fire" - Xiomara Batista/Elizabeth Acevedo; Things You Think About in the Split Second Your Notebook is Burning... https://archive.bookstr.com/article/...-poet-x-novel/
Enjoyed the dramatic questioning of the poem:"Things You Think About in the Split Second Your Notebook is Burning...".
"You do not have to be good."."Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2010/0...y-mary-oliver/
Enjoyed Mary's poem immensely :)
"Zenyatta..." - Lawrence S. Pertillar; Zenyatta
... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=447060
Loved this poem about a race horse with personality!
"Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations."."Flying at Night" by Ted Kooser
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2005/0...by-ted-kooser/
"Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies / like a snowflake falling on water. " Wonderful short poem :)
"Bursa Prison" - Nazim Hikmet; Letter To My Wife... https://www.poetrycat.com/nazim-hikm...ter-to-my-wife
"Letter to my wife".Wonderfully moving poem. A bit more about the poet,who had a very eventful life: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A2z%C4%B1m_Hikmet
"CLarissa blest with ev'ry Grace,"."THE RIVAL NYMPHS." A TALE .by Charlotte Lennox (née Ramsay)
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....47-w0020.shtml
Thanks for the wiki - Nazim Hikmet: Quite an accomplished poet... I remember Seeger's and The Byrds recordings of Where Have All the Flowers Gone fondly and have heard them often... had no clue of its origin :)
Ahhhhh, I need the sequel :) An interesting tragedy/comedy (I can't decide)... Enjoyed !
"Drunk with friends, unaware that it is almost dusk." - Li Bai; Amusing Myself... https://www.writtenchinese.com/five-...-translations/
Enjoyed this "drunken" nature drenched poem.
"Evening falls on the smoky walls,". "Ballad of the Londoner" by James Elroy Flecker
https://englishverse.com/poems/ballad_of_the_londoner
Cute poem... enjoyed :)
"Far away — far away —" - Edgar Allan Poe; The Valley Nis... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2008/0...gar-allan-poe/
""The Valley Nis". Beautiful poem!
"Green Buddhas"."Watermelons" by Charles Simic
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...les-simic/amp/
Wow ! What a minimalist gem !!! Loved it :)
"How happy and still is the earth" - Deepak Kumar Pattaanayak; How happy and still is the earth... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/how-happy-is-our-earth/
Impressive poem on the destruction of the planet.
"I ask them to take a poem"."Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2012/0...billy-collins/
A wonderful poem: "They begin beating it with a hose / to find out what it really means."... Lol, guilty sometimes. Enjoyed :)
""Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried," - Lewis Carroll; Fit the First: The Landing... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...e-landing-1332
Enjoyed the Lewis Carroll poem!
"King Cole he reigned in Aureoland"."King Cole" by George MacDonald
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ing-cole-25230