A powerful poem.Quote:
Originally Posted by tailor STATELY
I just found this line to be quite intriguing
You black man-of-war-hawk that wheels in the light - The Man-Of-War Hawk by Hermann Melville
https://poets.org/poem/man-war-hawk
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A powerful poem.Quote:
Originally Posted by tailor STATELY
I just found this line to be quite intriguing
You black man-of-war-hawk that wheels in the light - The Man-Of-War Hawk by Hermann Melville
https://poets.org/poem/man-war-hawk
Had to do some research on Melville's poem:... seems this bird is predatory upon other birds who have caught prey and will harass the targeted birds until they regurgitate their meal - the meal to be taken by the frigate bird. I guess mariners often regaled these and other birds.Quote:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Man-of-war hawk
(Zoöl) the frigate bird.
Interesting poem as it's now 2:00 am here in the Gold Country:
"Zut! it's two o'clock." - Robert William Service Noctambule...
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ctambule-31020
Interesting to see a poem by Melville!
Loved Noctambule.Ample and concise at a time.
And here we are back to "A".
"A little grey curl from my father's head" A little grey Curl by Louisa May Alcott
I know I usually go for the daker stuff, but I was drawn to how joyful this line was
Bards of Passion and of Mirth - Bards of Passion of Mirth by John Keats
https://www.bartleby.com/101/630.html
Two worthy poems !
罕啵ꨪ팥㽙꺾㵗啓喩呴嵿䫮䵿渵眷巹罕啵 ??
So for a lark I took Keat's poem and ran
the meter through a binary translator
(using UTF-16 little endian) and got an
output that translated with three English
style words appearing to be a Chinese
name: Han Po Kai (which I then googled
and translated a result from Chinese
using google translate) and found an
interesting message: "oh come oh come
shout break open ah doo ah want" -
I wonder what Keats' meant ? :)
7/7/2022
"Could our first father, at his toilsome plow," - Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Adam Posed...
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/adam-posed
I almost used this one the last time I had "D" so I could not resist the second time around
Dark to me is the earth. Dark to me are the heavens. - The Desolate City by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
https://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_desolate_city.html
Sad to lose the city you love...
"even a pencil has fear to" - e.e. cummings even a pencil has fear to...
https://www.poeticous.com/e-e-cummin...il-has-fear-to
A Curious fun poem. The first line caught my interest, and I loved the last verseQuote:
Originally Posted by tailor STATELY
,did you ever hear a jazz
Band?
or unnoise men don’t make soup who drink.
This line just caught my eye as being fun and intriguing
Five geese deploy mysteriously - Bas-Relief by Carl Sandburg
https://allpoetry.com/Bas-Relief
Another incredible poem... I pondered whether the geese were real or a sculpture but realized it really didn't matter :)
"Gotta love us brown girls, munching on fat, swinging blue hips," - Patricia Smith Hip-Hop Ghazal...
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...hip-hop-ghazal
From #!70- Lol! I donīt know what worthy poet John Keats wants to say, but you seem to be missing the glorious spam moments on LitNet.
Enjoyed the geese poem, Dark Muse! Finally a poet recognized the geese rights!
Loved the good humored poem by Patricia Smith. Found also by her:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-but-shes-fine. It happens almost every day, that a kid is shot here.
"HOW dear to my heart is the old village drugstore," The Hair-Tonic Bottle by Ben King
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/king02.html#1
In honor of my ancestry I was drawn to this
Italia! thou art fallen, through with sheen - Italia by Oscar Wilde
https://englishverse.com/poems/italia
The Hair-Tonic Bottle: Ah, the days of snake oil... have they ever left ?
Italia: a hopeful metaphorical homage :)
10-Year-Old Shot Three Times, but She’s Fine: "Boom, boom, she says to no one." :(
"Just Home and Love! the words are small" - Robert Service Home and Love...
https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=3189
Enjoyed!
"Kind Heaven will oft a lesson give" The Swan by William Hayley (Canīt resist a poem that exalts animals however old fashioned)
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ley/swan-18239
... I haven't noticed any spam. Maybe you're referring to my poems title 罕啵ꨪ팥㽙꺾㵗啓喩呴嵿䫮䵿渵眷巹罕啵 ??... that was the translation from the binary string I derived from Keats' metre of the poem using UTF-16 little endian. Hopefully we're not under attack otherwise.Quote:
From #!70- Lol! I donīt know what worthy poet John Keats wants to say, but you seem to be missing the glorious spam moments on LitNet.
Reminded me ever so briefly of your coin poem:
"My fist holds as many coins" - Sachiko Murakami Wishing Well...
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/wishing-well
I can't edit for some reason without copy/paste, etc... Such a tender story told in The Swan.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor