Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Nothing New-minimalistic and to the point!


"Once I am sure there's nothing going on". "Church Going" by Philip Larkin
https://www.poetrycat.com/philip-larkin/church-going
https://poemanalysis.com/philip-larkin/church-going/

Lol, fell asleep at the keyboard again... found this .pdf for a summary of Church Going... https://www.uoanbar.edu.iq/eStoreImages/Bank/410.pdf ... a sad poem for me though I enjoyed Larkin's musings :)

"Places I love come back to me like music," - Sara Teasdale; Places... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8504319-P...-Sara-Teasdale

Lol! Thanks for the pdf but sleep comes first!

"Places". "Beautiful poem!

"Quick through the gates of Fairyland"."Early Spring" by Fay Inchfawn
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...y-spring-21143

Fairyland! A South Wind would be welcome now... Enjoyed :)

"Rose, when I remember you," - Sara Teasdale; To Rose... https://allpoetry.com/To-Rose

"To Rose"-Loved this poem! One almost sees Rose at two.
Two poems starting with "S" by Yoaa Buson:

"Straw sandal half sunk"."Straw sandal half sunk" by Yosa Buson

"Sparrow singing--"."Sparrow singing" by Yosa Buson
Both on https://www.poemine.com/poems/S/287/
https://asianartnewspaper.com/yosa-buson/

Exquisite haiku :) Wonderful article. "Painting is Poetry Without Sound" is a wonderful rendition of the art of YB and his contemporaries. Being a devotee of Basho he made advances in both the poetic and painting arts :)

"Tumble me down, and I will sit" - Robert Herrick; To Fortune... https://slate.com/human-interest/201...iley-face.html

re: Found the whole Herick poem, but the punctuation is different in this version:
https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...une-4434016595

"Up the ash tree climbs the ivy,"."Upper Lambourne" by John Betjeman
https://www.poemine.com/John-Betjema...Lambourne.html
https://poemanalysis.com/john-betjeman/upper-lambourne/

Good catch... found this with some interesting comments :) https://www.thenewatlantis.com/text-...typewriter-art ... one being:

Quote:

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Unknown, April 15, 2014 at 2:53 am...
I'm with you in doubting that Herrick or his earliest publishers included a smiley face in "To Fortune," but I should note that a 1648 printing of his works (from a copy at the Huntington Library) does indeed feature a colon beside an end parenthesis in this early version of "To Fortune." On the other hand, that collocation also appears on the very next page, in "To Anthea," as well as on the preceding page in a poem called "To M. Denham, on his Prospective Poem." A JPEG of "To Fortune" and "To Anthea", along with bibliographical information can be found for a week or so at http://ow.ly/vN9oO

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Interesting rhyme scheme by JB: ABCBDB Enjoyed :)

"Vanity of vanities, the Preacher saith," - Christina Georgina Rossetti; The One Certainty - Sonnet... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...et-63618942127

re: I agree with this author. The poem he cites is also without parenthesis and to have an emoticon one must have an audience that knows what an emoticon is and recognises is, I think.

"The One Certainty"- Rather a sad ,pessimistic poem

"What we want"."What We Want" by Linda Pastan
https://www.poemine.com/Linda-Pastan/What-We-Want.html

Good luck with the elections!We all need it!

emoticons: I thought it was a fun diversion :)

Elections? Oh, yeah. Thanx!

"But what we want appears / in dreams, wearing disguises."... in my case it's sunglasses :coolgleamA: ... enjoyed the poem :)

"Xenophobic?" - Simon 74; Barrows claiming yams... https://allpoetry.com/poem/18027236-...ms-by-Simon-74

:)

Enjoyed the precision of the poem.

"Young mother! proudly throbs thine heart, and well may it rejoice"."To A Young Mother On The Birth Of Her First-Born Child" by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
https://www.poetrycat.com/rosanna-el...rst-born-child

Sweet Poem :)

"zzzzz.....zzzzz...shhh.....zzzzz." - Raj Arumugam; 2-body talk... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/154559/2-body-talk/

Enjoyed this Zpoem-original theme.

"America, I sing back. Sing back what sung you in.","America, I Sing You Back" by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/search/?type=poem

Found your poem here: https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a...sing-you-back/

Wonderful poem. We need more singers like she... Enjoyed :)

"Becalmed upon the sea of Thought," - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; In The Harbor - Becalmed... https://www.poetrycat.com/henry-wads...bor---becalmed

Sorry for the wrong link.
Becalmed-Enjoyed the metaphor of the ship with the flacid sails.

"COME, here is adieu to the city"."Come, Here Is Adieu To The City by Robert Louis Stevenson

https://www.poemine.com/Robert-Louis...-The-City.html