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84° F, a nice spring day :)
Delightful depiction of Mrs. Moon... Enjoyed :)
"No slight caprice rules thee. -- Who sounds one note" - Anne Whitney; No slight caprice rules thee. -- Who sounds one note... https://www.litscape.com/author/Anne..._One_Note.html
Serene poem. Enjoyed!
"O lightly moored the lilies lie,". "On Quiet Waters" by Celia Thaxter
https://www.litscape.com/author/Celi...et_Waters.html
Lovely pastoral... enjoyed :)
"Poets should not reason:" - John Boyle O'Reilly; The Useless Ones... https://allpoetry.com/The-Useless-Ones
"The Useless Ones.." Wonderful poem about the poem as a song! Agree 90% as I also love experimental poetry!
A poet with "Q" in his name:
"My son places his paint box in front of me"."A Lesson In Drawing" by Nizar Qabbani
https://allpoetry.com/A-Lesson-In-Drawing
A harsh reality, stark in its poignancy... incredible poem.
"Rise, lovers, that we may go towards heaven; we have seen this" - Rumi; Rise, lovers, that we may go towards heaven; we have seen this... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-24418
Powerful images has Rumi's poem.
"Stately, kindly, lordly friend,"To a Cat". by Charles Algernon Swinburne
https://www.poetrycat.com/algernon-c...burne/to-a-cat
Love it without reading the poem :) :) ... "a friend of loftier mind... More of heaven's deep heart than we." :)
"The hope I dreamed of was a dream," - Christina Georgina Rossetti; Mirage... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/mirage-51033791758
Without reading it?? Link worked alright!
"Mirage" Such a sad poem! Maybe a change of scene this end of the year might be good. Traveling a bit, seeing different people than the usual one..., visiting a different church-building...
"Unto a broken heart"."Unto a broken heart" by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poemine.com/Emily-Dickin...ken-heart.html
Lololol!... I did read the poem and enjoyed very much ! What enamored me was the run on sentence of " "Stately, kindly, lordly friend, "To a Cat" "... from that I knew the poem would be special to Me :)
Enjoyed your advice for those burdened with waking from a dream within a dream - where hope is a featherless bird (antithetical to Emily's poem Hope is the thing with feathers). Which leads us to your offering of a poem by Emily Unto a broken heart; a lengthy summary with a context I hadn't thought of which includes some other poems by Emily: https://academic.oup.com/litimag/art...20?login=false
"Voice of our Century, whose heart is broken," - Robert Norwood; Voice of the Twentieth Century... https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/cont...ntieth-century
Lol. Of course Stately poems are very welcome on this thread, same with cat poems.And Stately cat poems are the cherries on the cake!
Enjoyed the comments on ED's poem. I was thinking of very personal horror. The war didn't occur to me.
"Voice of our Century". So up to date!
"Well, honest John, how fare you now at"."To John Clare" by John Clare
https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/john-clare#0
A poem written to/about the poet while incarcerated in an asylum... enjoyed :)
"X-ray my heart tonight" - Feel; My Xavier... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1245681/my-xavier/
"You are my constant confusion".Oh my.! Enjoyed this almost
"You begin this way": "You Begin" by Margaret Atwood
https://www.poetrycat.com/margaret-atwood/you-begin
https://poemanalysis.com/margaret-atwood/you-begin/
"almost" - lol
Enjoyed both the poem and the analysis :)
"Zoom, Zoom, Zoom" - Not attributed; Zoom Zoom, We’re Going to the Moon”... https://allnurseryrhymes.com/zoom-zo...g-to-the-moon/
"Zoom, Zoom, Zoom " Nice song!
"A poem should be palpable and mute".Ars Poet by Archibald MacLeis
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...68/ars-poetica
Interesting Ars Poetica... found this summary: https://www.litcharts.com/poetry/arc...sh/ars-poetica ... Enjoyed :)
"Beside the crystal well she stood," - Rose Hartwick Thorpe; The Luck Of Muncaster. / A legend of merrie England... https://www.litscape.com/author/Rose...Muncaster.html