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Lololol I thought some halloween playfull spirit had possessed you. It's true I love the Scottish dialect and I got as far to understand that whatever was happening in this big poem ended well, but the second link is definitely better!
"Vegetarian, non - resistant, free-thinker, in ethics a Christian;".". Lloyd Garrison Standar by Edgar Lee Masters
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...standard-37486
Found an analysis: https://www.songmeaning.ai/songs/Edg...rison-standard Enjoyed :)
"When I was a boy I called the moon a" - Li Po; Good Old Moon... https://allpoetry.com/Good-Old-Moon
Enjoyed the analysis. The poem is much more complex than I thought. Curiously the link opened only when transferred to Google.
Wonderful moon poem. I guess the moon has been swallowed again.
Cheating a bit:
"Around Xmas time"."Xmas Wish" by Douglas Scotney
https://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369516
Curious poem... enjoyed but will have to ponder upon it a bit more :)
"You put on some new pants. I put" - Wendy Xu; You Think You Are Something Less Real Than You Are... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2021/0...e-by-wendy-xu/
re: Don't worry about the X-mas poem. As you know there are very few poems starting with "x" or "z". So the poems aren't always so good.
I love this Wendy Xu poem!
"DEAD as I am, and cold my Breast"."Zeal" by Rev. Charles Wesley
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....00-w0090.shtml
Enjoyed! Some of Wesley's songs are in my hymnal that we often sing :)
"Art thou not sweet," - Kate Seymour Maclean; Bird Song... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ird-song-25598
AAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!Very sweet indeed!
"Beyond my window in the night"."A Town Window" by John Drinkwater
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/gp2_4a.html#window
Wonderful poem... enjoyed :)
"Crass rays streaming from the vestibules;" - Lola Ridge; Flotsam... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com.../flotsam-29080
Reads very modern to me, powerful images!This link explains a lot:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Ridge
"Days the weather sits"."Place to Be" by Robert Creeley
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2016/0...t-creeley/amp/
Interesting bio of LR. Her images really stand out.
RC - very short and concise... enjoyed :)
"Eleven o’clock, and the curtain falls." - Louis Untermeyer; End of the Comedy... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/1...is-untermeyer/
End of the Comedy...-So true!Natural forces are rebelling, but human forces are too.
"Finding a new poet"."A New Poet" by Linda Pastan
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2008/0...-linda-pastan/
Love this poem so much: "... if only there had been a flower." :)
"grass is unusual" - Ward Maxwell; grass... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/grass
Enjoyed the grass poem. Grass is so welcome in places where there is only asphalt and stones!
"Hello, listen, I’m on a field phone, do not speak until I say “over.” "Fire Watch" by KEN BABSTOCK
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/fire-watch
Lol..."I’ve been contracted to watch this horizon and will / be here until something happens." Enjoyed this lonely poem :)
"i twist and gasp" - KATERI AKIWENZIE-DAMM; sturgeon... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/sturgeon
Gripping poem! One feels a sturgeon on reading it.
"THE Jester shook his hood and bells, and leaped upon a chair,"."The Jester's Sermon" by George Walter Thornbury
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/thorn01.html#1