Poem gave me the creeps, here the poor black hens are often used for black magi
"You brothers, who are mine,".«Lonesome Night" by Hermann Hesse
https://www.poetrycat.com/hermann-hesse/lonesome-night
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Poem gave me the creeps, here the poor black hens are often used for black magi
"You brothers, who are mine,".«Lonesome Night" by Hermann Hesse
https://www.poetrycat.com/hermann-hesse/lonesome-night
Black hens=Culture shock
"Give me my welcome back." - Perhaps rejecting the invitation to join the downtrodden... more analysis here: https://allpoetry.com/Lonesome-Night
"Zombie, zombie, who were you?" - A lost soul; Zombie, zombie?... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/670534/zombie-zombie/
re Hesse: Couldn't find a written version of the German original. Only one audio which I can play only tomorrow.
Zombie, Zombie-Lost Soul not in the best frame of mind.But congrats for one more Z poem.
And sometimes I am sorry when the grass" ."Peace" by Patrick Kavanagh
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8507381-P...trick-Kavanagh
"Out of that childhood country what fools climb / To fight with tyrants Love and Life and Time?"... alas conscription would denude the countryside of laborers and dreamers. Enjoyed the poem however...
""Bring out your dead!" The midnight street" - John Greenleaf Whittier; The Female Martyr... https://www.poetrycat.com/john-green...-female-martyr
Hermann Hesse-Found the written original. As I suspected your poetic sensibility detected a translation problem:"Gebt mir meinen Gruss zurück."≈"Return me my welcome."
Dark poem!
"Come forth, you workers!"." Reveille" by Lola Ridge
https://www.poetrycat.com/lola-ridge/reveille
Cry of the revolutionary... Enjoyed :)
"Dark frost was in the air without," - Walter de la Mare; Winter Dusk... https://allpoetry.com/Winter-Dusk
Taylor,I'm very sorry, this is one more of my confusions. I thought you had stopped posting in this thread because of your illness and was waiting for you to resume.
Beautiful domestic scene, liked the contrast between the spectre, (probably the husband and father) and the family group.
"Every day". "Mindful" by Mary Oliver
https://www.poetrycat.com/mary-oliver/mindful
https://interestingliterature.com/20...dful-analysis/
Enjoyed both the poem and the analysis... Joy and wisdom in the everyday :)
"Four Princesses lived in a Green Tower" - Kate Greenaway; The Four Princesses... https://www.poetrycat.com/kate-green...our-princesses
Charming poem! Enjoyed! KG has a special way with poems for children.
"Good-bye, my song--I, who found words for sorrow,"The Broken Lute" by Theodosia Garrison
https://www.poetrycat.com/theodosia-...he-broken-lute
"My lips are all for laughter and for kisses. / Good-bye, my song." Too busy for song, lol... Glad poem, enjoyed :)
"Heavenly Archer, bend thy bow;" - Walter de la Mere; Dust to Dust... https://classicalpoets.org/2021/08/3...er-de-la-mare/
Enjoyed the poem and the explanation, but my interpretation of the last line is different because of the title of The poem.
"In the deserted, moon-blanched street,".«A Summer Night" by Matthew Arnold
https://www.poetrycat.com/matthew-arnold/a-summer-night
Found this at AllPoetry: https://allpoetry.com/A-Summer-Night for a summary. Full of metaphors for men in prisons of their own making whether on land or sea, yet hope remains; the final strophe: "A world above man's head, to let him see / How boundless might his soul's horizons be, / How vast, yet of what clear transparency! / How it were good to live there, and breathe free; / How fair a lot to fill / Is left to each man still! "... enjoyed :)
"Jagg'd mountain peaks and skies ice-green" - Walter de la Mare; Brueghel's Winter... https://allpoetry.com/Brueghel's-Winter
Beautiful winter scenery ¡
"Kakapo, Whiskers Long;" "-Kakapo's Wishes" by Leaf Star
https://www.poetry.com/poem/62185/kakapo's-wishes.
https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/nativ...ds-a-z/kakapo/
Sad poem of exploitation of a flightless bird... As of September 2024, there were 244 kākāpō alive, a loss of 8 in two years :(
"Let there be light!" God spake of old," - John Greenleaf Whittier; The Library... https://www.poetrycat.com/john-green...er/the-library
re Kakapo: so sad.
Enjoyed the poem about the library but think humans are changing again.
"Mirrors are not more silent"." To a Cat" by Jorge Luis Borges
https://www.poetrycat.com/jorge-luis-borges/to-a-cat