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Still not on my laptop... cable has arrived but my car has been down since Thursday so I can not get it for a few hours... hoping the cable is the only problem. Car is in the shop for warranty repair of my electronic steering... cost me upwards of $3000.00 USD last time when it first went out in February.
Wonderful ! Needed a poem on community for our Thursday at Two poetry group for 4/17/2025 and this "fills the bill"... may use one line of the poem for an acrostic Golden shovel (need a 9-word line from the poem, maybe: "The waves' whereabouts are whisked off over the horizon.")... Enjoyed :)
A poem by a poet with the letter 'J' in their name:
"On cool and inviting bamboo mat and pillow" - Jiang Kui; On Red Lotus Petals... https://www.cn-poetry.com/jiangkui-p...us-petals.html
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Since yesterday Mercury is going forward again, so issues repairs should prosper. Having a bad issue in the kitchen, water is leaking somewhere behind the sink, a bad place because the sink in L is glued to the walls.
Glad the poem will be useful for your meeting.
A poem by a poet with "k" in its name:
"A butterfly —"."A Butterfly" by Ķaga no Chiyo
https://allpoetry.com/Kaga-no-Chiyo
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Finally! Laptop power cable arrived and is snug in the receptacle... but no joy... Ordered battery for laptop... electronic steering assembly should arrive at the car dealership today: hoping for a quick and expert repair. Pray your water leak is attended with expertise and with minimal time, damage, and charges.
Enjoyed this poem but for this: "you also get mad / some days."... I cannot imagine a butterfly being angry.
"Let me be monosyllabic to-day, O Lord." - Carl Sandburg; Monosyllabic... https://allpoetry.com/Monosyllabic
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Thanks! Repair matters are never so easy or so cheap. Hope that specially your car gets fixed quickly as you depend so much on it. I haven't got a plumber as yet.
Well,I can imagine an angry butterfly. There would be a lot of fluttering.
Enjoyed Sandburgs poem,but didn't think the analysis so complete.i think there are two contrasting situations.
"My green aquarium of phantom fish,"The Reef" by Aldous Leonard Huxley
https://allpoetry.com/The-Reef
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After I made my last post here I got a call that my car was done and got a ride to pick it up, getting there 10 minutes before closing... so happy it looks like I never logged off.
Incredible poem by AH... The summary help... Enjoyed :)
"No, helpless thing, I cannot harm thee now;" - Anna Lętitia Barbauld; The Caterpillar... https://allpoetry.com/The-Caterpillar
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Congrats! Is it electric (you wrote that you changed the battery)?
Enjoyed the caterpillar poem very much!
"Oh I am wild—wild"."Sale of Souls" by Adah Isaacs Menken
https://allpoetry.com/Sale-Of-Souls
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Thanx. No, my car is not electric unfortunately... I've ordered the inner battery for my laptop... evidently when the battery can no longer hold a charge the laptop will not work even when plugged in.
The sale of souls... heart wrenching. Enjoyed.
"Poison of asps is under our lips ?" - Rudyard Kipling; Poison Of Asps... https://mail.poetic-love.net/publicd....php?pdid=5616
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Found some notes to this curious Kipling poem: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rea...rg_poison1.htm
Poem by a poet with "q" in his name.
"Friend, old friend in the Manse by the fireside sitting,"."Christmas Eve"
by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/christmas-eve-1
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Interesting find... an S.P. connection possibly.
"Thoughts, thoughts! Whistle them back like hounds returning--"... Enjoyed this poem very much... its rhyme and meter pleasant.
"riding by a bar called " nn"" - Nia Francisco; Navajo Inn... https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/nf-navajoinn.htm
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Loved Nia Francisco's poem with its forceful images- and the new site.
"She came home, my Lord, and smashed in the television;"."Wife Who SmashedTelevision Gets Jail" by Paul Durcan
https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/pd2-wife.htm
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Lol poem in a sad way... perhaps wry humour. Enjoyed :)
"That is no country for old men. The young" - William Butler Yeats; Sailing to Byzantium... https://www.uomus.edu.iq/img/lecture...3_12133631.pdf
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A more detailed analysis, thanks. So it's from this poem the brothers Cohen took the title of one of their movies "No country for old men". I didn't watch it, but from what I've seen from these directors it probably means that the scenario of the story is too harsh and violent for old men to survive in it.
"Up at his attic sill the South wind came"."Up at his attic sill" by Allan Seeger
https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poe...athisattic.htm
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I noticed that... the movie was very edgy.
• A wiki for Alan Seeger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Seeger
• A summary at AllPoetry: https://allpoetry.com/poem/8479787-S...by-Alan-Seeger
I think the city the poet is so disillusioned with is New York... I cannot conceive of the same sentiment with Paris. Enjoyed :)
"Vain is the effort to forget." - Matthew Arnold; On The Rhine... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ne-97138493920
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Thanks for the links. Interesting bio.
I think big cities are similar. And Paris has become a symbol of culture. We probably idealize it a lot.
Beautiful poem! Longing for the past, expectations for the future.
"Water in the millrace, through a sluice of stone"."Winter Landscape with Rooks" by Sylvia Plath
https://allpoetry.com/Winter-Landscape,-With-Rooks
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A bleak poem where even a swan in Winter is thought of being absurd... what a tortured spirit. Enjoyed.
Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:
"One night's east wind adorns a thousand trees with flowers" - Xin Qiji - Green Jade Cup-Lantem Festiva... https://www.cn-poetry.com/xinqiji-po...-festival.html
