Somber poem.
"By many a bard the Cameron clan is sung," - Nora Pembroke; To Hon. Malcom Cameron.... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembr...malcom-cameron
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Somber poem.
"By many a bard the Cameron clan is sung," - Nora Pembroke; To Hon. Malcom Cameron.... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembr...malcom-cameron
Loved the pacifist poem!
On a lighter note:
"Clothes and the Man I sing. Reformers, note" A Ballad Of Buttonry by John Kendall
https://www.poetrycat.com/john-kenda...ad-of-buttonry
The Hardest Button To Button taken to historical revision :)
"Don't judge a book by its cover." - Poppy Cooke; Love Is Better Than Hate... https://lyricstranslate.com/en/poppy...te-lyrics.html
LoL. "Love Is Better Than Hate..." Morals better than rhymes.
"Macavity’s a Mystery Cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw". Macavity: The Mystery Cat by T. S. Eliot
https://poets.org/poem/macavity-mystery-cat
lolololol poem... AND jumping to "m" already! Another delightful cat poem out of order for your enjoyment :)
"Oh I am a cat that likes to" - Stevie Smith; The Galloping Cat
... https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poe...-galloping-cat
Aiaiai!Confused title with first line and jumped half the alphabet! Thanks, tailor, galloping indeed! Humbly getting back to "e", but tomorrow. Tomorrow is another day!
"E'en as the bird, who midst the leafy bower".The Divine Comedy by Dante: The Vision Of Paradise: Canto XXIII
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...to-xxiii-14174
Inspired poem. Trying to figure out who Trivia alludes to...
Found Polyhymnia: muse of sacred poetry :)
"Fiercer than tiger, savager than bear," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet CXIX. Questa umil fera, un cor di tigre o d' orsa. / He Prays Her Either to Welcome or Dismiss Him at Once.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-...ca/sonnet-cxix
re: Donīt know if this analysis is helpful, but there are some explanations, including of Trivia:
https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/da...o/paradiso-23/
"God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers" God Scatters Beauty by Walter Savage Landor
https://www.poetrycat.com/walter-sav...catters-beauty
Thanks!... enjoyed the analysis :)
God Scatters Beauty... a beautiful, short poem :)
"Hark, neighbor, for one moment stay!" - Friedrich Schiller; Dialogue.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...dialogue-30686
Enjoyed Schillers poem. Tried to find it in German, but the title may be different.
"I have no silver-saddled horse to ride," About My Poetry by Nazim Hikmet
https://www.poetrycat.com/nazim-hikmet/about-my-poetry
About My Poetry by Nazim Hikmet: An appropriate poem for a man of his sensibilities.
"Jacob Lawrence" - William J. Harris; The Beauty of Bareness... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ty-of-bareness
Jacob Lawrence, an interesting artist. Reminds me a bit of Tarsila do Amaral:
https://www.moma.org/artists/3418
"Keep love for youth, and violets for the spring".Autumn Violets by Christina Georgina Rossetti
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-violets-29923
"Or if a later sadder love be born,
Let this not look for grace beyond its scope,
But give itself, nor plead for answering truth -
A grateful Ruth tho' gleaning scanty corn." :)
"Love knoweth every form of air," - Nathaniel Parker Willis; The Annoyer... https://www.poetrycat.com/nathaniel-...is/the-annoyer
re:"Autumn Violets" - I donīt quite agree with Rossetti. Maybe Iīm not realistic enough, but I think there is no special age for love. But the poem is so beautifully worded, that I had to choose it.
"The Annoyer"-a charming poem about the nature of love.
"Music doth uplift me like a sea". "Music" by Charles Baudelaire
https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-baudelaire/music
re: Rossetti - agreed.
re: "Music...": "I feel the tremblings of all passions known
To ships before the breeze;
Cradled by gentle winds, or tempest-blown"... delightful :)
"November is so drear and chill" - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; November... https://www.poetrycat.com/nancy-rebe...glass/november
Beautiful poem by Nancy Campbell, but hm... it seems that spring has nīt shown much of itself in your realms yet.
"Oh, children of the tropics," "A Rallying Cry" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
https://www.poetrycat.com/frances-ellen-watkins-harper
A gorgeous Spring day today... even saw a Bumble Bee upon a Dandelion :)
Beautiful poem.
"Pink is an unhappy hue, not soothing like cerulean, nor calming like" - Dara Yen Elerath; Against Pink[/i]... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...7/against-pink
:)
Against Pink- Lol! Interesting prose poem. Not my favorite color, but nothing against pink. Our minister of human rights of the last government uttered the famous sentence"Boys wear blue, girls wear pink". As a protest several celebrities started to wear pink shirts.
"Quite a proud and happy man is Finn the packer"."The Tin-Pot Mill" by Edward Dyson.
https://www.poeticous.com/edward-dys...mill?locale=it
re: Pink - Lol
Fun poem with a notable refrain; a wonky industrial revolution celebration :)
"Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun" - Emily Dickinson; Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogs...seductive.html
"Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun". Original and cryptic approach.
"Sail fast, sail fast," "A Song of the Future "by Sidney Lanier
https://www.poetrycat.com/sidney-lanier
Delightful poem :)
"Thou saddened one whose longing eyes" - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; In Sincerity... https://www.poetrycat.com/nancy-rebe...s/in-sincerity
"In Sincerity"- a sincere religious poem.
"Up and be doing, all who have a hand" "A Call To National Service" by Thomas Hardy
https://www.poetrycat.com/thomas-hardy
Enjoyed: "Untended as a wild of weeds and sand.
- Say, then, "I come!" and go, O women and men
Of palace, ploughshare, easel, counter, pen;
That scareless, scathless, England still may stand." :)
Must have been a call to arms for everyone during WWI
"Very loud a mad frenzy The wooden" - Hoa Nguyen My Idea of the Circus Is My Idea of the Circus Otherwise Known As: My Mother Was a Celebrated Stunt Motorcyclist, Vietnam, 1958 to 1962... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/...lebrated-stunt
Hoa Nguyen- Very interesting, modern approach to the theme of love.
"When the moon was full they came to the water."Moon Fishing" by Lisel Mueller
https://www.poetrycat.com/lisel-mueller/moon-fishing
"and one with a silver cup." :)
Poem by poet whose name has an 'x' in it:
"Scraps of cloud in rosy dusk- West Lake is good." - Ouyang Xiu; Scraps of Cloud in Rosy Dusk (Picking Mulberries)... http://www.chinese-poems.com/oyx9.html
Beautiful Chinese poem! You have posted a poem from this site before, but I yust now noticed how delicate this poems are and bookmarked the page.:)
"You ask me how to pray to someone who is not." "On Prayer" by Czeslaw Milosz
https://www.poetrycat.com/czeslaw-milosz
They are nice... I've used 4 of 10 queued... so 6 more by this august poet :)
Czeslaw Milosz: quite celebrated... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czesław_Miłosz
Enjoyed :) His poem is quite in contrast with how he was honored upon his death, perhaps written during his atheistic years, yet quite complex as one reads it closely:
Will have to look up more of his translated poetry :)Quote:
Thousands of people lined the streets to witness his coffin moved by military escort to his final resting place at Skałka Roman Catholic Church, where he was one of the last to be commemorated.[85]... Protesters threatened to disrupt the proceedings on the grounds that Miłosz was anti-Polish, anti-Catholic, and had signed a petition supporting gay and lesbian freedom of speech and assembly.[87] Pope John Paul II, along with Miłosz's confessor, issued public messages confirming that Miłosz had received the sacraments, which quelled the protest.[88]... Though raised Catholic, Miłosz as a young man came to adopt a "scientific, atheistic position mostly", though he later returned to the Catholic faith.[137] He translated parts of the Bible into Polish, and allusions to Catholicism pervade his poetry, culminating in a long 2001 poem, "A Theological Treatise".
"Zeitgeist of the city, cranes with broken necks" - Jim Groom; Ziggy...
https://tdc.ds106.us/writings/ziggy/
I wasnīt aware that Czeslaw Milosz had such an interesting life. Have to look more into his writings.
Ziggy-interesting, synthetic poem!
"A man doesn't have time in his life". "A Man In His Life" by Yehuda Amichai
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ichai/poems/60
Enjoyed ! "He will die as figs die in autumn,
Shriveled and full of himself and sweet,
the leaves growing dry on the ground,
the bare branches pointing to the place
where there's time for everything." A biblical analogy I can relate to :) I have two different types of fig trees, one now overrun by blackberries :( The purple fruited tree is only harvested by me and the birds and the bugs.
"Barada, oh father of all rivers" - Nizar Qabbani; Barada... https://www.poetrycat.com/nizar-qabbani/barada
re: Still related to the theme of Armichaiīs poem this song I love( and you know of course):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4
"The purple fruited tree is only harvested by me and the birds and the bugs." :)
"Could my heart hold another one?" "Within" by Susan Coolidge
https://www.poetrycat.com/susan-coolidge/within
Classic song befitting a sacred scripture... the 12-string guitar and perfect harmonies, bright and haunting, still resonate today.
Beautiful poem... I'd replace "slaves" with attendants to take away the historic sting, albeit lightly.
"Despite the storms," - S.C. Lourie; Despite The Storms... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/po...ite-the-storms
re: Agree 100% about the word "slaves". Was even in doubt about posting the otherwise beautiful poem.
"Despite the storms," -an optimistic poem!
"Each strips his own skin". "Wedding" by Vasko Popa
https://www.poetrycat.com/vasko-popa/wedding
The poem is a bit surreal for my understanding even in its simple word play.
"From morn to eve, from evening unto morning," - Nora Pembroke; Lamentation... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/lamentation
re: "Wedding" must be a famous poem, because I found it on several websites.Unfortunately I didnīt found any analysis, but only this general description of Vasco Popa`s poetry:
"Vasko Popa wrote in a succinct modernist style that owed much to surrealism and Serbian folk traditions (via the influence of Serbian poet Momčilo Nastasijević) and absolutely nothing to the Socialist Realism that dominated Eastern European literature after World War II. He created a unique poetic language, mostly elliptical, that combines a modern form, often expressed through colloquial speech and common idioms and phrases, with old, oral folk traditions of Serbia – epic and lyric poems, stories, myths, riddles, etc. In his work, earthly and legendary motifs mix, myths come to surface from the collective subconscious, the inheritance and everyday are in constant interplay, and the abstract is reflected in the specific and concrete, forming a unique and extraordinary poetic dialectics.."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasko_Popa
"Lamentation"- Beautiful but very sad poem, specially as it seems to be dedicated to her own sons.
"God bless the man who gave us rest" "Stanzas" by Freeman Edwin Miller
https://www.poetrycat.com/freeman-ed...o-gave-us-rest
Enjoyed the wiki. Considering he wrote in colloquial Serbian using the language tools he created, the translations I've read are mostly accessible.
Stanzas: Intriguing poem...
"Her cheek was wet with North Sea spray," - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; By The North Sea... https://www.poetrycat.com/arthur-con...-the-north-sea
Charming poem by Conan Doyle, who I hitherto associated only with detective stories.
"In the middle of countries, far from hills and sea," "Out Of The Window" by Aldous Leonard Huxley
https://www.poetrycat.com/aldous-leo...-of-the-window
... and Huxley whom one associates with dystopia; enjoyed his train poem :)
"Just come to my mind" - Vasko Popa; Give Me Back My Rags... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22604
re: Poetry Cat offering some good surprises by authors mostly known by their prose. :)
"Give Me Back My Rags..." Reveals a rather ferocious disposition of mind!
"King's daughter sitting in tower so high,". "The Raven And The King's Daughter" by William Morris
https://www.poetrycat.com/william-mo...kings-daughter
re: "Rags" - Yes... a very angry poem :(
Enjoyed the conversation poem... the princess will receive her love I believe.
"Long since, I lived beneath vast porticoes," - Charles Baudelaire; A Former Life... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-ba.../a-former-life