Musings...Beautiful nostalgic (but not entirely)poem.
"Pale as a star that shines through rain"A Legend Of The Lily by Madison Julius Cawein
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-julius-cawein
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Musings...Beautiful nostalgic (but not entirely)poem.
"Pale as a star that shines through rain"A Legend Of The Lily by Madison Julius Cawein
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-julius-cawein
A Legend Of The Lily... a bit tedious with a happy ending :)
Staying with MJC:
"Quaint and forgotten, by an unused road," - Madison Julius Cawein; The Old House.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ld-house-36918
Beautiful poem!
"RAIN - rain - rain - for three good solid fluid weeks' -Water by William McKendree Carleton
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ndree-carleton
Interesting poem, 3 or 4 in one in mood and pace; "I've journeyed up and down through half Broadway, / And did not see a first-class smile to-day." :)
"Standing under the fobbed" - Philip Larkin; Send No Money... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...in/poems/14592
Re: lol, Yes. "Rain"; "A night in the Theater"; "The Play"...
Found this analysis of Larkins poem, which at first seemed difficult to me:
https://interestingliterature.com/20...%20things%20go'.
"The yard half a yard," The Lake by Deborah Ager
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ager/poems/317
re: Larkin - Wow... that's a great find and a lot more than I got out of it :)
re: The Lake - Enigmatic; I had to find help on this one... https://www.enotes.com/homework-help...ing-say-278442
"Valley, which long hast echoed with my cries;" - Francesco Petrarca; To Laura In Death. Sonnet XXXIII. Valle che d' lamenti miei se' piena. / On His Return to Vaucluse After Laura's Death... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-...-sonnet-xxxiii
Thanks for the link on The Lake, tailor. I think though that there is more to it. "Months have passed since, well,
everything." The poem doesn´t reveal, what this everything is, but it may be the clue of the poem. It may represent a general event like a flood, for example, or a personal experience of the "I" of the poem.
Sonnet XXXIII by Petrarca. I have the feeling that the second translation is more faithful to the original
Including "U". "Under a daisied bank". The Milkmaid by Thomas Hardy
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/thomas-hardy
oops...
"the milk purrs in the pail" :) Quite poetic ! I looked for an analysis and got sidetracked; found a short story by Hardy, The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid, on Project Gutenberg which in the reading I thought might answer a question or two. A delightful read - it did enlighten me perhaps.
"Woodcutter." - Federico García Lorca; Song of the Barren Orange Tree... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/620120/...n-orange-tree/
re: Going to look for the short story :)!
Lorca is one of mY favorite poets. I like his dramatic intensity, which is a bit less visible in the translation
Found this charming analysis of the poem:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/har...en-orange-tree
"You can keep your antique silver and your statuettes of bronze," My Old Football by John Milton Hayes
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-milton-hayes
re: Lorca - Wonderful analysis ! I hadn't considered the second interpretation at all... a very deep poem.
re: Football - Interesting life and war story woven around a football metaphor... enjoyed.
"Zero things come to mind." - Nick Randall; Zero Things... https://tdc.ds106.us/writings/zero-things/
"Zero things come to mind." Curious poem. You always manage to find new "Z" poems.
"At five in the afternoon." From Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías by Lorca (it´s about the death of a famous bull fighter. I usually wouldn´t chose a poem about bullfight, but it is Lorca at his most dramatic).
https://www.poetryintranslation.com/...20Goring%20and
An event etched in time.
"Beneath a broad grey sky, upon a vast and dusty plain devoid of grass, and where not even a nettle or a thistle was to be seen, I met several men who walked bowed down to the ground." - Charles Baudelaire; Every Man His Chimera... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-ba...an-his-chimera
Every Man His Chimera... Impressive in form and content!
"A Charm invests a face" A Charm invests a face by Emily Dickinson
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Emily_Dickinson
A truly charming poem; a little help here... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogs...kled-girl.html
"Dead! Where the bold and brave" - A. H. Laidlaw; The Custer Wail.... https://www.poetrycat.com/a-h-laidlaw/the-custer-wail
By trying discover who Custer was I hit on this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle...Little_Bighorn.
"Early within his workshop here,"Explanation Of An Ancient Woodcut, Representing Hans Sachs' Poetical Mission by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
https://www.poetrycat.com/johann-wol...-A%20poem%20by
Interesting wikipedia article. A series of unfortunate events including not utilizing the WMD of the day by the protagonists... a bloody mess.
A Word Can poem I wrote that is yet unedited and untitled from yesterday's Thursdays at Two poetry group using the words kitty-corner/shallow/bury/bunk/invoke/indigenous:
yet untitled
invocations for the indiginous peoples
I dream snug in my bunkbed
kitty-corner to a western tableau
yet too shallow to muffle their cries
3/16/2023
re: "Woodcut... " In my attempt to find the original German version (to see the original rhyme scheme) I found this addendum to the poem:... https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Germa...sOfGoethe.htmlQuote:
[I feel considerable hesitation in venturing to offer this version of a poem which Carlyle describes to be 'a beautiful piece (a very Hans Sacks beatified, both in character and style), which we wish there was any possibility of translating.' The reader will be aware that Hans Sachs was the celebrated Minstrel- Cobbler of Nuremberg, who Wrote 208 plays, 1700 comic tales, and between 4000 and 5000 lyric poems. He flourished throughout almost the whole of the 16th century.]
... ""I, to ordain thee come," she spake:
"So prosper, and my blessing take!
The holy fire that slumb'ring lies
Within thee, in bright flames shall rise;" :)
Incredible poem.
"From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning," - Elizabeth Bishop; Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore... https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/eb-invit.htm
I´m glad you haven´t given up poetry. Enjoyed the poem. Used to have the feeling that a cat bunker protected against the suffering world outside. But it was a fallacious feeling.
Found a link to Goethe´s poem about Hans Sachs in German:
https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/go...e/chap274.html
Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore... What a beautiful, imaginative poem!
"GOLDEN sun of victory, born" To My Children by Sarojini Naidu
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...idu/poems/4585
Thank you! Lol... no I haven't given up on poetry, perhaps a bit fallow with expectations for poetry month that is arriving swiftly in April :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
- Oh, if this were true :)Quote:
Used to have the feeling that a cat bunker protected against the suffering world outside. But it was a fallacious feeling.
- Will have to revisit :)Quote:
Found a link to Goethe´s poem about Hans Sachs in German:
https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/go...e/chap274.html
- :)Quote:
Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore... What a beautiful, imaginative poem!
- Wonderful blessings to her children :)Quote:
"GOLDEN sun of victory, born" To My Children by Sarojini Naidu
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...idu/poems/4585
"Here lies a man cut off by fate" - Friedrich Schiller; Epitaph.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com.../epitaph-30675
"If I forget thee, Jerusalem," If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by Yehuda Amichai
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ichai/poems/77
Taken in part from Psalm 137... https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/...s/137?lang=eng
Found an interesting point and counterpoint in analysis... https://mypoetryforpeace.weebly.com/...jerusalem.html
"Jorge, no matter where we go together" - Sarina Romero; To Jorge Luis Borges... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ge-luis-borges
re: Hans Sachsens poetische Sendung - Great find :) Odd, I was expecting a non-rhyming scheme in the original German for some reason.
Attempted a side by side Poem / Google translation / Interpretation document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...it?usp=sharing
Granted the Google translation may be imperfect, though far surpassing anything I could come up with, but one can see the liberties taken between the Poem and its interpretation.
Wow! That poem really inspired you tailor! I´m just in the middle of what I call half moving activity packing books, and other things and cleaning furniture. Tomorrow if all goes well, a truck will take more of half my belongings, including all my physical books away.
As soon as possible I´ll take a close look at your (or Googles) translation.
Meanwhile here is the English link on Hans Sachs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Sachs
Good work, tailor! I think the merit of this interpretation was to reproduce the spirit of the original even taking some liberties with it. I became curious who the translator might be. I found the blog with the interpretation but I didn´t find the name of the translator.
There seems to be much more in the poem of Sarina Romero. The poem imitates a prose text, but the image of the canvas driven in to the sea predominates. It's perhaps about our historical American contradictions that cling to us. Did you know that Sarina Romero is from California?Quote:
Originally Posted by tailor STATELY
"K WAS SUPPOSED TO COME WITH THE KEY, I WAS" K WAS SUPPOSED TO COME WITH THE KEY, I WAS (Danish poem by Ulrikka S. Gernes, translated into English by Canadian poet/translators Per Brask and Patrick Friesen)
https://griffinpoetryprize.com/poem/...the-key-i-was/
No I didn't know Sarina Romero's origins. I read she's from Oakland, CA... I worked in Oakland very briefly and lived in Southern Alameda County, same county as Oakland, from 1969-1976... High School years, brief College stint, and first marriage. Sarina appears very young; her linkedin page shows her interest in Education and has since relocated to New York.
She alludes to a massacre in Mexico at Tlatelolco in a 1968 protest prior to the Olympic Games... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre as well as... the 3000 years of heritage ?Quote:
Tlatelolco has marked the history of massacres and national injustice in Mexico in other historical ways which have permeated the arts such as it being a place of Aztec sacrificial performances, being the place where the Aztecs surrendered to the Spanish, and giving way to legitimizing the genocide of indigenous people in Mexico.[28]
"the image of the canvas driven in to the sea" is a grand statement.
Interesting poem about relationship change. Ulrikka Gernes bio... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poets/ulrikka-gernes
"Living is no laughing matter:" - Nazim Hokmet; On Living... https://www.poetrycat.com/nazim-hikmet/on-living
re:Sarina Romero, thanks for the information. She doesn´t have a wikipedia page but she seems to be from Oakland, California.
"On Leaving". A beautiful poem full of sensibility. :)
"O Merlin in your crystal cave".Merlin by Edwin Muir
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/merlin/
Enjoyed :) Brings to mind "The Lady of Shallot" by Tennyson which we discussed elsewhere (Book Game/Movie Game?) though not alluding to it.
"Not tired of 'earin' stories! You're a nailer, so you are!" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Groom's Encore... https://www.poetrycat.com/arthur-con...-grooms-encore
re: Book Title Game I think it was.
Enjoyed Conan Doyle´s poem very much, specially the language!
"Out of Wonder World I think you come;"From Wonder World by Kate Greenaway
https://www.poetrycat.com/kate-greenaway
"Out of Wonder World..." Precious little poem; copied it for an occasion for my great-granddaughter (with proper credit to the author of course)... maybe for Easter :)
"Past the despairing wail" - Friedrich Schiller; Elysium.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com.../elysium-30714
:) How old is your granddaughter? I confuse a bit your grandchildren and your great grandchildren.
Enjoyed Elysium!
Poem Quebec by Jean Blewett.
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/quebec-1
Great-Grand Daughter is 1 / Great-Grandson is 4 :) Grandkids: 26/22/15 :)
Enjoyed Quebec... "The white doves perch upon the cannons grim,
The flowers bloom where once did run a tide
Of crimson, when the moon rose pale and dim
Above the battlefield so grim and wide."
"red rock giants" - Micaela Merryman; 34°54’15’’ N 111°47’30’’ W... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...15-n-1114730-w
re:Grandkids old enough to enjoy poetry; GGkids occupied in producing it!
Enjoyed Merryman's sharpness!
"In Sleeping Beauty's castle" Immortality by Lisel Mueller
https://www.poetrycat.com/lisel-mueller/immortality
Enjoyed Lisel Mueller's retrospective in S2 :)
"Tree, tree" - Federico García Lorca; Arbolé, Arbolé... https://poets.org/poem/arbole-arbole
Enjoyed the bilingual poem "Tree, tree" very much.
" Under an arch of glorious leaves I passed"."Michael Oaktree" by Alfred Noyes
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/alfred-noyes
A thoughtful and majestic poem on life :)
"Vital spark of heav'nly flame," - Alexander Pope; The Dying Christian To His Soul... https://www.poetrycat.com/alexander-...an-to-his-soul
An intense poem!
"WE saw Thee in Thy balmy nest,"Verses from the Shepherds' Hymn" by Richard Crashaw
https://englishverse.com/poems/verse...shepherds_hymn
A very pious poem :)
Poem by a poet who has an "X" in his/her name:
"After the lotus flowers have opened- West Lake is good." - Xiu Ouyang; After the Lotus Flowers Have Opened (Picking Mulberries)... http://www.chinese-poems.com/oyx7.html
Lol! "Poem by a poet who has an "X" in his/her name". Creative solution with elusive "X ". Charming poem!
"Young palmer sun, that to these shining sands" A Sunrise Song by Sidney Lanier
https://www.poetrycat.com/sidney-lanier
Ah... invoking Saladin. I found an animated Crusade's history involving Saladin & Baldwin, unfortunately interrupted by ads on occasion, that tells the true story that the movie The Kingdom of Heaven was based on that I found fascinating... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7L2eWwQq84
"Zones marked on campus." - Quinntero; Zombies vs. Humans Haiku...
https://tdc.ds106.us/writings/zombies-vs-humans-haiku/
Interesting Cruzade Video. Here is the film:https://www.google.com/search?q=the+...id:SoI5w0_46Ww
Funny zombie haiku.
"A bird flew out at the break of day"The Ballad Of God-Makers by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ith-chesterton