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Thanks for the analysis on Ars Poetica.A poem shouldn´t be obvious?
Lol! "The Luck Of Muncaster" - All is well that ends well! Enjoyed!
"Choose your obsessions"."Choose your obsessions..." by Siddharth Anand
https://www.poemine.com/Siddharth-An...bsessions.html
"And after the tsunami / You wonder why you were destroyed / By; your own army". Enjoyed this poem by the nearly 40yr old poet :)
"Drop, drop, splash, splash," - Edith L. M. King; Thunder at Night... https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/thunder-night
"Drop, drop, splash, splash," Short, sharp and exactly fitting the weather today (not much thunder and lighting as yet, but summer is around the corner.
"The eyes of toads are great" "The eyes of toads are great" by Blodgett, E. D.
https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/cont...ds-are-great#0
Lol, a paradox indeed... enjoyed :)
"Father calls me William, sister calls me Will," - Eugene Field; Jest 'Fore Christmas...
https://www.litscape.com/author/Euge...Christmas.html
"Jest 'Fore Christmas..." -Cute Christmas poem and I´m always glad when I understand all the dialect.
"Glass was the Street -- in tinsel Peril"."Glass was the Street -- in tinsel Peril" by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poemine.com/Emily-Dickin...sel-Peril.html
https://sites.udel.edu/mcses2012/papers/paper-iii/
Enjoyed very much the poem and the treatise on Emily's room/windows/home and her perspective :)
"HEAR the sledges with the bells —" - Edgar Allan Poe; The Bells... https://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/bellsg.htm
Loved the bell poem.I think that what is called the idiosyncratic rhythm of the poem is that poe makes the poembitself chime, lighter the merrier stands, heavier the sadder or full of horror ones.
"I bless you, forests, valleys, fields, mountains, waters,"."I bless you, forests" by Tolstoy
https://allpoetry.com/Aleksey-Konstantinovich-Tolstoy
Wonderful poem by Tolstoy... it may be the first poem from him that I have read... Enjoyed :)
"Just a drowned woman, with death-draggled hair" - John Payne; Quia Multum Amavit... https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/cont...-multum-amavit
I think it is my first Tolstoy poem, too.
A sad narrative in poem form, about the drowned woman and her children. The title refers to the New Testament, where Magdalen is forgiven because she "loved so much".
"karenina,"."karenina" by Regina Elliot
https://www.poetry.com/poem/159037/karenina
"steps lithe amidst / the stars. / karenina, of the / infinite,"... enjoyed :)
"Let those who are in favour with their stars" - William Shakespeare; Sonnet XXV... https://www.poemine.com/William-Shak...onnet-XXV.html
Fully enjoyed the Shakespeare Sonnet. :)
"Mother,". " River" by Shuntaro Tanikawa
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/river-74/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuntar%C5%8D_Tanikawa
Wonderful tender poem. I see he passed on just last month :( Enjoyed :)
"Night is over the park, and a few brave stars" - Sara Teasdale; Swans... https://poets.org/poem/swans
There is so much beauty and magic in "Swans". :)
"Of Old Sat Freedom". Alfred Tennyson, "Of Old Sat Freedom".
https://www.poemine.com/Alfred-Tenny...t-Freedom.html
In praise of Lady Freedom... enjoyed :)
"Poets are such bad employers," - Jay Macpherson; Poets & Muses... https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/poets-muses
"Poets & Muses...". Lol! Charming poem about poetry not being practical!
A poem by a poet with "Q" in his name:
"One tree. Another tree". "Trees" by Ai Qing
https://lorenwebster.net/2024/02/24/...elected-poems/