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Thanks. Seems to be allergic, trying to find a doctor for confirmation.
Thanks for translating the epigraph and for the amplification links.
Enjoyed this charming ED poem. One possible reference you probably know:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fable...er_and_the_Ant
"The gardener does not love to talk."."The Gardener" by Robert Louis Stevenson
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/rls03.html#17
Delightful fable ! I hadn't read this version before :)
Lol! Wonderful poem about a young man's dealing with the gardener... Enjoyed! :)
"He said no word of her to us" - Stevie Smith; Nor We of Her to Him... https://allpoetry.com/Nor-We-of-Her-to-Him
:)
https://www.best-books-for-kids.com/...son-poems.html
"He said no word of her to us". Loved this wordplay revealing a concealed very destructive relationship.
"If ever the time comes for me to die". "My Wake" by Albinas Zukauskas.
https://allpoetry.com/My-Wake
I didn't remember/know of RLS's delightful child verse... I wonder if Alan Rickman was ever approached to portray him.
AZ put a lot of thought in his wake poem... enjoyed :)
"Just this one day in all the year" - Dora Sigerson Shorter; The Skeleton In The Cupboard... https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_C...n_the_Cupboard
"The Skeleton In The Cupboard..." Very interesting take. Enjoyed! The demand to be happy on Christmas Eve has sometimes the opposite effect, families quarrel, lonely people are sad, destituted people are reminded of their losses...
Flexibilising the rule a bit:
"I am king of the room"."The King" by Fouad Mohammad Fouad (translation Atef Alshaer)
https://www.poetrytranslation.org/poems/the-king
Sad poem of the aged... we kings and queens in waiting... Enjoyed :)
"Let us build a fire" - Joseph O. Legaspi; Poetry... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-6667f0ff4bf70
Yes, alas!
Enjoyed the imagery of this poem about destruction of one's home.
'My brother holds a snake by its head. The whole"."Cyrus & the Snakes" by Ada Limón
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...rus-the-snakes
Enjoyed the retrospective by Ada :)
"Nature, the gentlest mother," - Emily Dickinson; Nature, the gentlest mother...
• Poem: https://songofamerica.net/song/natur...lest-mother-1/
• Music: https://www.google.com/search?newwin...rtV931pjo,st:0
Thanks for EDs gentle poem and the music!
'O black and unknown bards of long ago,"."O Black and Unknown Bards" by James Weldon Johnson
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/johnson3.html#2
Wonderful poem... Enjoyed :)
"Pain has an element of blank;" - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson ; The Mystery Of Pain... https://allpoetry.com/The-Mystery-Of-Pain
E D explores a quite unusual aspect of pain in this poem. Enjoyed!
"Quiet form of silent nun,"."Soeur Monique - A Rondeau By Couperin" by Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...couperin-38432
Nice "Q" find - An homage to an idyllic nun: "Was his music-dream of you / Of some perfect nun he knew, / Or of some ideal, as true?"... enjoyed :)
"Rhaicos was born amid the hills wherefrom" - Walter Savage Landor; The Hamadryad... https://allpoetry.com/The-Hamadryad
Sorry, tailor, lost the poem I had selected so starting again.
Enjoyed the legend.
"Sent as a present from Annam—". The Red Cockatoo byi Bai JuYi
https://allpoetry.com/The-Red-Cockatoo
Sad tale... enjoyed... You and I met Bai Juyi through his poetry some time ago:
• More poetry: http://www.chinese-poems.com/bo.html :)
• Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bai_Juyi
"Tenuous and Precarious" - Stevie Smith; Tenuous and Precarious... https://allpoetry.com/Tenuous-and-Precarious
Thanks for the links about Bai Juyi and his poems. :)
Lol"Tenuous and Precarious"! Stevie Smith (another new poet I enjoy very much) summing up what I think about 21C.
"UNLESS I learn to ask no help". "III.Lessons" by Sara Teasdale
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/...songs02.html#3