"In Perspective"‐As we say here "less is more".
"I marvel how Nature could ever find space". "A Character" by William Woodsworth
https://allpoetry.com/A-Character
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"In Perspective"‐As we say here "less is more".
"I marvel how Nature could ever find space". "A Character" by William Woodsworth
https://allpoetry.com/A-Character
More personification... enjoyed very much :)
"Join now Apollo the harmonious strain," - Janet Little; Lothario... https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....92-w0150.shtml
Confused Lothario but wonderful verses!
"THE keen stars were twinkling,"To Jane: The Keen Stars Were Twinkling". by Percy Bysshe Shelley
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/shell01.html#7
Loved S4: "Though the sound overpowers, / Sing again, with your dear voice revealing / A tone / Of some world far from ours, / Where music and moonlight and feeling / Are one." :)
"Lady Alice was sitting in her bower-window," - Frank Sidgwick; Lady Alice... https://internetpoem.com/frank-sidgw...ice-poem/#true
Enjoyed specially the romantic image of the flowers extending from one lover to the other.
"Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,". "Miniver Cheevy" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/miniver-cheevy/
"nobody loses all the time" - ee cummings; nobody loses all the time... https://www.poetryverse.com/e-e-cumm...loses-all-time
lol Uncle Sol must be a distant US relative of Bras Cubas, who dedicated his memories to the first worm that would bite into his flesh.
"On a starless night,"."On A Starless Night" by Mosab Abu Toha
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2024/0...-abu-toha/amp/
Lol!
Oh, the humanity! Enjoyed the poem. Sad.
"Patched velvet chairs," - Ross Blair; The Office
... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw138.html
Reads a bit kafkean. Not so usual a theme for a poem
"IF a leaf rustled, she would start:"The White Moth" by Arthur T. Quiller-Couch
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/quiller1.html#1
How heartbreaking! Enjoyed :(
Written today ! (7 hours ago even) :)
"ripple of water" - Joseph Moon; A ripple of water- Tanka... https://allpoetry.com/poem/17898522-...by-Joseph-Moon
Sad but beautiful tanka.
Cheating a little bit:
"Green Snake, when I hung you round my neck"."To The Snake" by Denise Levertov
https://allpoetry.com/To-The-Snake
(researched the poem last night, but forgot to post it-oh seniority)
(lol) Love this poem :)
"Tang of fruitage in the air;" - Amy Lowell; Late September... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ll/poems/20029
"Late September"-lovely poem about the workings of nature. Good to read about sun, when it's finally raining.
"UNtouch'd by love, unmov'd by wit,"VERSES written in SYLVIA'S PRIOR." by David Gerrick
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....54-w0510.shtml
Jealousy ?
"VOLTAIRE, believe me, were I now" - Frederick II, King of Prussia; An EPISTLE from the King of PRUSSIA, to Monsieur VOLTAIRE... https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....57-w0690.shtml
It´s very possible, yes!
"An EPISTLE from the King of PRUSSIA, to Monsieur VOLTAIRE..." What a find, tailor! Frederick II, was quite accomplished!
Some more about the relationship of Friedrich II and Voltaire:
https://www.heritage-history.com/ind...story=voltaire
"When I think how far the onion has traveled". "The Traveling Onion by Naomi Shihab Nye"
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...mi-shihab-nye/