Despondent, but loved this work routine poem. Love E P
"Quick through the gates of Fairyland"."Early Spring" by Fay Inchfawn
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8563023-E...y-Fay-Inchfawn
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Despondent, but loved this work routine poem. Love E P
"Quick through the gates of Fairyland"."Early Spring" by Fay Inchfawn
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8563023-E...y-Fay-Inchfawn
Love this poem :) Used it for reading a poem by another author at our last Thursdays at Two poetry meeting:
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Poem by another poet: Early Spring by Fay Inchfawn
Elizabeth Rebecca Ward (December 2, 1880 – April 16, 1978) - (Fay Inchfawn) “was a prolific English writer of popular verse, religious works, and works for children, writing under the pen-name Fay Inchfawn. Her works were serialised in women's magazines, and she was sometimes known as "The Poet Laureate of the Home". - Wikipedia
Quick through the gates of Fairyland
The South Wind forced his way.
'Twas his to make the Earth forget
Her grief of yesterday.
"'Tis mine," cried he, "to bring her joy!"
And on his lightsome feet
In haste he slung the snowdrop bells,
Pushed past the Fairy sentinels,
And out with laughter sweet.
Clear flames of Crocus glimmered on
The shining way he went.
He whispered to the trees strange tales
Of wondrous sweet intent,
When, suddenly, his witching voice
With timbre rich and rare,
Rang through the woodlands till it cleft
Earth's silent solitudes, and left
A Dream of Roses there!
Word Can poem 3/6/2025: Wave, think, pattern, thistle, farmyard, epiphany, ladder, heat, tabulate
In a farmyard far from home
I wandered in the heat of day
Past a copse of thistles stomped down by cows
I found a ladder near a trough
And whilst I stooped to drink
An orb spider’s web caught my eye
At least that’s what I thought it was
I marveled at the web’s intricacies
A moiré pattern that shimmered in hypnotic waves
And I received an epiphany of sorts
That spiders are much better at math than I
The sums they must tabulate
3/6/2025
Assignment for 3/20/2025 Living in a different time
Living in a different time
If I were to live in any another time
I might wish to live without rhyme,
But reason I would have in abundance
And oh, how I would love to dance.
Free thinking would be my favorite art,
The music of nature would grace my heart:
Warblings and titterings and calls
Of feathered free flying beings, and alls
That creep or crawl or swim in their spheres,
Beneficial creatures of which I'd have no fears.
I'd learn the language of all beings in the land,
But most especially that of cats to understand
Why they stare at walls and/or swish their tails.
I'd ponder the poetry of deep sea whales
Who seek council with the denizens of the abyss
And compare with that of the strident starkness
Of eagles as they course through the heavens
Counting coup in their bases of elevens and sevens.
The lamb would lay down with the lion,
And all of existence would be like Zion.
3/19/2025
Where I play: http://www.online-literature.com/for...mes-amp-Contes
My Padlet: https://padlet.com/tailorstately/kn9o45weuso
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"Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn," - Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell; Sonnet - In February... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ry-69999174358
What a coincidence!
Enjoyed your poems. Wondering if your different time could be a possibility!
Lovely spring poem!
"Sweet poet of the woods—-a long adieu!"."Sonnet Vll :Sweet poet of the woods" by Charlotte Smith
https://allpoetry.com/Sonnet-VII:-Sw...t-of-the-Woods
re: time... absolutely.
Enjoyed the sight rhyme ending the last 2-lines, and the poem :)
"The moon shears up on Tahoe now:" - Edwin Markham; The Panther... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...62/the-panther
:)
The Panther -impressive poem!
"Up! Everything that God has made,"."Up! Everything that God has made" by Hans Adolph Brorson
https://www.poemine.com/Hans-Adolph-...-has-made.html
Enjoyed this spiritual poem very much :)
A long run-on poem, albeit enjoyable:
"Vauvenargues says that in public gardens there are alleys haunted principally by thwarted" - Charles Baudelaire; The Widows... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...re/widows-8921
Enjoyed Baudelaire's text, but i would hesitate to call it a poem.
"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;"."Gitanjali 35" by Rabindranath Tagore
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/gitanjali-35
I see your point...
Found a summary of Tagore's poem: https://www.enotes.com/topics/where-...r-gitanjali-35... Enjoyed :)
"X-Marks-the-Spot is a tickling game" - Ilene Bauer; X-Marks-the-Spot... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/x-ma...e-spot_1704026
Thanks for the summary of Gitanjaly 35.
Charming "X" poem
"You call authority "a grievous thing.". "To a rebellious daughter " by Fay Inchifawn.
https://allpoetry.com/To-A-Rebellious-Daughter
Enjoyed the interaction between mother and wannabe free daughter who can't imagine her mother being as she is in an earlier time. :)
"Zebra stripes move and shift," - matt at shadow of iris; Zebra Stripes, a poem... https://www.shadowofiris.com/zebra-stripes-poem/
Enjoyed the zebra poem.
"Across the town the evening bell is ringing;"."The House - Mother" by Fay Inchfawn
https://www.poetrycat.com/fay-inchfawn/the-house-mother
A sweet prayer by a maid left home whilst her employers/owners go to church to worship :)
"Behind yellow windows shadows drink hot tea." - Alfred Lichtenstein; Winter Evening... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-lic...oogle_vignette
I suspect it is not the maid but the housewife.
Loved the sensorial images.
"Come swish around, my pretty punk,"."Drunken Man's Praise Of Sobriety by William Butler Yeats
https://www.poetrycat.com/william-bu...se-of-sobriety
A poem on sobriety and drunkenness... enjoyed :)
"Dim-berried is the mistletoe" - Walter de la Mare; Before Dawn... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8494387-B...ter-de-la-Mare
Last night site got wonky again. I was able to post the shorter answers, but when I got to alphabetical, the site was down?
Interesting Christmas scenes that reminds one that the winter in Bethlehem is much warmer than in the Northerm Hemisphere
"Ever restless, ever toiling" ."Sea Margins.by Walter R. Cassels
https://www.poetrycat.com/walter-r-cassels/sea-margins
https://allpoetry.com/Sea-Margins