A former Life: "Tended by many a naked, perfumed slave," so, so!
"Mother! Mother!" "Mother. - Alpha and Omega."
https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-cas...lpha-and-omega
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A former Life: "Tended by many a naked, perfumed slave," so, so!
"Mother! Mother!" "Mother. - Alpha and Omega."
https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-cas...lpha-and-omega
re: "so, so!... about what we'd expect from the French romanticist's fantasies.
Tender poem Mother. - Alpha and Omega
Since Mother's day in the U.S.A. is approaching in May our challenge for last Thursday's deadline for our meager poetry group was, of course, "Mothers". Here's what I shared with the group:
“There is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.”
– M. Russell Ballard
Mother
My Mother was chosen before she was born the
Origin heavenly defined, and choired angels
Tell of our premortal story, divinely whispering
Holy hymning to all who would become mothers to
Eternity - my wife, my daughter mothers too as one
Rejoicing, glorifying Heavenly parents one to another
4/13/2023 r. 4/15/2023
Golden shovel: "The angels, whispering to one another," - Edgar Allan Poe, a line from ‘To My Mother’... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-56d2374c0d434
Acrostic: Mother
.
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"No poems to write now." - Imran Sada’i; Sinking... https://wordswithoutborders.org/read...eid=fb5284d202
Enjoyed the poem with acrostic. I was quite unconscious of the approaching Mother's day. In Brazil it is celebrated on the second Sunday of May.
re: Mothers Day - here too.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Sorry, I didnīt notice the poem starting with "N", discreetly at the bottom of the post. "No poems to write now." by Imran Sada’i is short but incisive and I loved the initiative of the project to translate these poems into English.
"Of whispering trees the tongues to hear," "He Heeded Not"by George MacDonald
https://www.poetrycat.com/george-macdonald
An evolving poem :) Very influential writer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_MacDonald
"Plague's contagious murderous breath" - Friedrich Schiller; The Plague. A Phantasy... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...phantasy-30677
re: Indeed, and he seems to be forgotten today!Thanks for his Wikipedia link.
"The Plague" A drastic poem!
"Quit questioning why the Q man can't quite collate as he is queried in his quasi state." Alliteration of Q by Ocean Fury
https://allpoetry.com/poem/12492148-...-by-Ocean-Fury
lol... fun alliteration :)
"Renunciation - is a piercing Virtue" - Emily Dickinson; Renunciation is a piercing Virtue... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogs...rtue-card.html
Seems I forgot to log out.
I love Emily Dickinson but I canīt make much out of these riddle poems. And someone had the bad idea of printing them all on a black background, not a feast for bad eyes.
"Such oranges! so fresh and sweet," "A Leap Year Episode" by Hattie Howard
https://www.poetrycat.com/hattie-how...p-year-episode
"While redolence seemed wafted in
From orchard-groves of Mandarin." :)
Affairs of the heart - Who knew an orange could be used thus ?
"To keep your marriage brimming" - Ogden Nash; A Word To Husbands... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/po...-by-ogden-nash
re: Indeed!
Lol! Good advice!
"Under the high unclouded sun". "Northward" by John Milton Hay
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-milton-hay
Wonderful poem :)
"voyage, oh voyage!" - Etel Adnan; voyage, oh voyage!... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/voyage-oh-voyage
"voyage, oh voyage!" A very original poem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etel_Adnan and http://www.eteladnan.com/
"We little children join to praise" "Children's Song" by Nora Pembroke
https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke
Enjoyed the hymn poem... wasn't aware of (or forgot) the ligature &c... learned something new :)
re: Etel Adnan - Thank you for the links :) wikipedia:Wonderful celebrated artist in many media who passed on in 2021 at the age of 96 and deserves greater praise and study :)Quote:
In 2003, Adnan was named "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today" by the academic journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.
X:
“Ten thousand miles away your soul has flown;” - Xi Jinping; In Memory of Jiao Yulu... https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/top..._10754269.html
re: Wasnīt aware either.
You never stop surprising me.A poem by Xi Jinping? President Lula visited him recently. But who would have thought him the author of these verses?
In Memory of Jiao Yulu...
"Ten thousand miles away your soul has flown; the rivers, mountains and land yearn for your return. The people mourn the loss of a caring official, tears flooding under the empress trees you planted. Having dedicated your life to the desert, to the betterment of people’s lives, your legacy lives on no matter how many years come and go."
The moon shining bright as always, I think of you and your life’s work. You toiled long and hard, claiming no credit. Serving and benefiting the people: such was your ambition and is also mine. Many a trickle will add a touch of green to the desert and create a wellspring of hope."
"When midnight mists are creeping," "Dreamland" by Lewis Carroll
https://www.poetrycat.com/lewis-carr...s-are-creeping
re: Xi Jinping - Warrior politician with the soul of a poet perhaps. Read about the two meeting in my news feed; an economic summit of some sort if I recall.
re: Dreamland - "When midnight mists are creeping,
And all the land is sleeping,
Around me tread the mighty dead,
And slowly pass away." - I might have been inclined to stop with these four powerful lines :)
Going with another poet with the letter 'x' in his/her name:
"After the fresh blossoms have gone- West Lake is good." - Ouyang Xiu; After the Fresh Blossoms Have Gone (Picking Mulberries)... http://www.chinese-poems.com/oyx4.html
re: Dreamland - a good synthesis.
Ouyang Xiu; After the Fresh Blossoms Have Gone -Delicate sad poem
"You've asked me what the lobster is weaving there with " "Enigmas" by Pablo Neruda
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...da/poems/15724
Incredible poem by Neruda :)
"Zoo is a place of fun," - Daniele Niepokoj; A Zoo you should go...
https://tdc.ds106.us/writings/a-zoo-you-should-go/
Enjoyed the aliterative poem with difficult "Z",
"ATTEND my lays, ye ever honour'd nine," "An Hymn To The Morning" by Phillis Wheatley
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ey/poems/17810
Beautiful rhyming poem :)
"Before the grandeur" - karl marszalowicz; The Blank Page... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/the_blank_page_551146
re: "An Hymn To The Morning". Did you recognize the poet? https://www.loa.org/writers/684-phillis-wheatley
"The Blank Page." Poetry as a way to fame.
"Calling, the heron flies athwart the blue" "The Creek-Road" by Madison Julius Cawein
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...eek-road-37005
Yes, after your link :)
Dreamy poem with an interesting rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdedce
"Dismounted, we drank to bid you farewell." - Wang Wei; Farewell... https://mandarinmatrix.org/famous-chinese-poems/
Enjoyed "Farewell". I'm reproducing the poem here because Matrix put a partial impediment on the page.
“Farewell”, by Wang Wei
"Dismounted, we drank to bid you farewell.
I asked, “My friend, where are you heading?”
You said, “Oh, nothing is working my way,
So be back to the crags of Nanshan, retiring.”
“Go then! You’ll ask of the world no more!
Ah, days of endless white clouds, unending!”
https://mandarinmatrix.org/famous-chinese-poems/
"Every valley drinks,"Winter Rain by Christina Georgina Rossetti
https://www.poetrycat.com/christina-...ti/winter-rain
Beautiful poem by CGR... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti... I'll borrow it for this week's Thursday at Two poetry group to share as a poem from another poet :) Our creative theme for 5/4/2023 is Earth Day or Nature or May the 4th (be with you)/Sci Fi... and I haven't settled yet but have some ideas percolating.
"Friends" - Nizar Qabbani; Verse... https://www.poetrycat.com/nizar-qabbani/verse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizar_Qabbani
Loved "Friends". Put it into the other forum in a thread of favorite universal poems.
"G o on your way, my youthful friend,"To Master George Twiddy by Thomas Frederick Young
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...e-twiddy-34583
An homage acrostic to George Twiddy :)
"His amphibian torso" - Fady Joudah; Maqam of Palm Trees (for Rahim El hajj)... https://www.sukoonmag.com/responsive/tag/etel-adnan/
Maqam of Palm Trees-Interesting, complex images.
"maqām, (Arabic: “place of residence”), a spiritual stage that periodically marks the long path followed by Muslim mystics (Sufis) leading to the vision of and union with God."
https://www.google.com/search?q=Maqu...hrome&ie=UTF-8
"In the early morning-shine". Life’s Hebe by James Thomson (BV)
https://www.poetrycat.com/james-thomson-bv
The 7-major maqāms of Sufism are enlightening.
Enjoyed the poem :) Hebe: Daughter of Zeus/Hera, sister to Ares, wife to Herakles - cup bearer to the gods whose draught was immortality and could bring youth back to the old in mythology... https://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Hebe.html
"Joy in Trojan congregations" - Friedrich Schiller; Cassandra... https://www.thechainedmuse.com/post/...drich-schiller
Enjoyed the poem and the link about Hebe. Additionally to the poem:https://www.saxonica.com/~mike/OdeToJoy.html and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo.
"My daughter plays on the floor" "Spelling" by Margaret Atwood
https://www.poetrycat.com/margaret-atwood/spelling
"Ode" - the first link echoed the frustration with translating... the second brought me tears of joy :)
"My daughter..." - Powerful graphic poem: https://letsexploreliterature.wordpr...rgaret-atwood/
"Near Hastings, on the shingle-beach," - Toru Dutt; Near Hastings... https://www.poetrycat.com/toru-dutt/near-hastings
re "Ode": :)
"Near Hastings, on the shingle-beach,", So beautiful!
"Over the camp-fires". "The Longbeards' Saga. A.D. 400" by Charles Kingsley
https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-ki...s-saga--ad-400
Enjoyed :) "Where women are heroes, / What must the men be?"
"Perhaps he’s afraid my wooden shoes will damage the moss." - Ye Shaoweng; I Try To Enter a Garden but I Can’t Get in... https://bangalorereview.com/2019/04/...-song-dynasty/
Charming poem:"It’s impossible to wall in the beauty of spring,/ An apricot branch draped in red blossoms has crept over the wall."
"Queen of a double empire still she stands," "Constantinople, March MCMXV" by Victoria Mary Sackville-West
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ch-mcmxv-37872
Wistful impassioned historical poem by the author Vita.
"Ring-Ting! I wish I were a Primrose," - William Allingham; Wishing... https://www.poetrycat.com/william-allingham/wishing
"Wishing...".Charming poem!
"Softly drops the crimson sun:". "Angelus". by Susan Coolidge
https://www.poetrycat.com/susan-coolidge/angelus
Great poem...lol... just realized I was influenced by Angelus for my poem in the Lol... thread for today
"Tranquil and happy loves in this agree," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet CCXVII. La sera desiar, odiar l' aurora. / Contrary to the Wont of Lovers, He Prefers Morn to Eve.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-.../sonnet-ccxvii
Noble verses. Like Petrarca I prefer Aurora.
"Unlovely city, to which few tourists come". "A City Remembered" by Vernon Scannell
https://www.poetrycat.com/vernon-sca...ity-remembered
A somber homage to a city beloved. A rather convoluted life for a poet... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Scannell
"Villagers all, this frosty tide," - Kenneth Grahame; Carol... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw355.html
Enjoyed the poem, specially as sung by field mice. Willsometime look for the book.
"What a strange thing" "What a strange thing" by by Kobayashi Issa
https://www.poetrycat.com/kobayashi-...-strange-thing
Beautiful Haiku :)
Poem by a poet whose name contains an 'x': Max Eastman - "Borne on the low lake wind there floats to me,"; Summer Sunday... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/73810/summer-sunday/