Alphabetical Poem First Lines

All poetry page suddenly all in color!

Aaiii! for the pigs.


"Unless I learn to ask no help"."Lessons" by Sara Teasdale
https://www.poetrycat.com/sara-teasdale/lessons

A poem in recognition of a higher power... perhaps acknowledging a plan :)

"Visions of the years gone by" - Susanna Moodie; The Deluge... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ge-97822758615

The Deluge-this poem has become so up to date.


"Without horror you devour dead flesh every day."Reflecting upon a Human Lung in Alcohol" by Alfred Lichtenstein
https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-lic...ung-in-alcohol

The title appears to have no connection to the poem, but the poem comes forth from viewing the title subject, hence pondering how the first human to kill an animal must have felt... existence. An analysis at AllPoetry: https://allpoetry.com/Reflecting-Upo...ung-In-Alcohol

"one by one, they die" - Sheng Xing; fish doctor... https://www.poetryinternational.com/...72_FISH-DOCTOR

Thanks for the analysis! I felt the same about the title. It seems to be there to attract the reader with his oddnes.But on further reflection, the lung is also an organ that is there to nourish the human body with air. On the whole, the poem seems to want to awake the readers consciousness of mankind 's inherent predatoryness. For humans also pollute the air that they breathe though ostensibly the poem isn't about that. But your Shen Xing poem is about the pollution of the water. Enjoyed!

"Yesterday I still went powdered and addicted". "Ash Wednesday" by Alfred Lichtenstein
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8584919-A...d-Lichtenstein

Trying to reconcile the title with Ash Wednesday's observance... Ash Wednesday observance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday In the context of the end of the poem: "A forest has many individual trees. / There's nothing more to cry about. / There's nothing more to scream about. / Where am I--" perhaps the melancholy of days leading up to our Savior crucified - being hung on a "tree" of many trees... but the analysis on AllPoetry goes into another direction... dunno. Enjoyed :)

"Across ten thousand miles of cerulean blue," - Wang Zhiguo; ABA ABOVE THE CLOUDS*... https://modernchinesepoetry.com/poems.php#Wang_Zhiguo

Thanks for the link. I think perhaps the end of the poem is related to a sort of emptiness that follows the intense frolics of Carnival and wich in its turn mirrors
the emptiness and uncertainty of second world War,where Lichtenstein fought as soldier.

Wow. A beautiful Tibetan poem, the first of our collection! Very interesting collection of modern Chinese poetry, influenced by modern life and probably too by western poetry.

"A man and a woman —"."SAME OLD STORY" by Rong Rong
https://modernchinesepoetry.com/poems.php#Rong%20Rong

Interesting comparison between a relationship between a man and a woman and a car wreck... Enjoyed :)

"Birds' love and birds' song" - Alfred Tennyson; Spring... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-tennyson/spring

A light and cheerful Spring poem!

"Come all you little rouseabouts and climb upon my knee;"."Saltbush Bill On The Patriarchs" by Andrew Barton Paterson
https://allpoetry.com/Saltbush-Bill-on-the-Patriarchs

Wonderful rendition of a biblical event... Enjoyed also the summary at AllPoetry :)

"Der noble Ritter Hugo" - Charles G. Leland; Ballad... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8589203-B...Godfrey-Leland

Lololol mocking the English spelling of the Germans!

"Elysium is as far as to"."Elysium is as far as to" by Emily Dickinson

https://allpoetry.com/poem/14326786-...mily-Dickinson

A poem of anticipation... a friend awaits :) Enjoyed.

"Fat trains go down loud tracks" - Alfred Lichtenstein; The Trip to the Mental Hospital... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-lic...ental-hospital

A very typical German Expressionismus poem:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ...er%20conflicts.

."Go, words of mine! and if you live"."Epilogue" by Abram Joseph Ryan
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8590953-E...am-Joseph-Ryan

Thanx for the wiki link !

Enjoyed... The hopes of a poet that their words may live on, if only for a day.

Hoping we haven't used this poem; my laptop is down and am using a desktop computer with none of my notes...

"HARK! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings," - William Shakespeare; Aubade... https://englishverse.com/poems/aubade

Not that I remember! Sweet poem!

"I've always been a seeker of the city,"."Seeking the Crowd I Walk" by Sakutara Hagiwara
https://allpoetry.com/Seeking-The-Crowd,-I-Walk