Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Enjoyed Romance de La Luna

Oddly slanted poem by Emily... thank heavens for the summary. Enjoyed :)

"Van Gogh worked with nothing in his belly but milk" - Carmen Germain; The Fixed Stars... https://www.versedaily.org/2023/thefixedstars.shtml

Loved this poem, the connection between the stars and the paintings and the holes is unusual yet somehow convincing. Love this site you discovered with current poetry.

"When she left him he"."Man with Dog" by Max Sessner
http://www.versedaily.org/2023/manwithdog.shtml

Delightful !... after the loss that is. A most enjoyable speculative ending :)

Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:

"Beaches and their weather," - Lex Runciman; What Do You Carry?... https://www.versedaily.org/2019/whatdoyoucarry.shtml

Enjoyed the poem!

"You'd think she did not love enough,"."The Thread" by Julian Orde
https://www.versedaily.org/2024/thethread.shtml

Interesting tension: "But taut and trembling as the string / Teased by a bow on violin / Until it screams." The thread of a web in its making... Enjoyed :)

Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:

"“Always” means “Eternally.”" - Alisha Dietzman; XOXO... https://poetrysociety.org/poems/xoxo-and-xoxo-coda

Interesting word tensions in this poem. Enjoyed!

"Any way you look at it, it seems the world is"."Abecedarian for a World Enflamed" by Leah Umansky
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/abec...enflamed.shtml

PS-What do you think of liberating titles of poems starting with difficult to find letters: k, q, x and z?

Imaginative Abecedarian poem. "extra" is a fanciful touch... Enjoyed :)

"liberating titles" - That might be very helpful :)

"Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward," - D H Lawrence; Butterfly... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8510433-B...y-D-H-Lawrence

Enjoyed this almost tender addressing of the butterfly.

Letter "c" is not difficult but I liked the poem:

"Lately, I've been into transformation". "Come In, Houston, or Everything I Know I Learned from the Guitar Solo in Tori Amos' "Doughnut Song" (Live in Frankfurt, Germany" by Anthony Frame
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/come...erything.shtml

Enjoyed very much :)

"delicate yet enduring" - PinkFaerie5; Christ and the Dogwood... https://allpoetry.com/poem/15071722-...by-PinkFaerie5

A delicate poem. I looked up the legend of the dogwood. Probably you know it already but here it is: https://www.gardenia.net/guide/dogwo...e_Twisted_Tree


"Exhibit 3 was an enormous yellow"."Self, Centered" by Sofia Fall
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/selfcentered.shtml

I so love Dogwoods. Thank you for the in-depth article. I don't recall hearing the story before :)

Enjoyed the self-centered poem: "... drawing in all the gravity..." :)

"Forever — is composed of Nows —" - Emily Dickinson; Forever — is composed of Nows... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ed-of-nows-690

Enjoyed! ED surprisingly explicit here about the simplification of time.


"Gently fall the shadows gray,". "Slumber Song" by Arthur Macy
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ber-song-38566

By the way, are you still frequenting your poetic afternoons? You didn't publish any poems anymore.

re: poems... yes, we had a session of Thursdays at Two yesterday, I guess I've been lax about posting them lately, though I have been posting them to my Padlet, along with what I write here of course... will try to remedy :)

Charming lullaby type poem :)

"hey harpist with the stringy fingers" - Kevin (somewhere in jersey); favorite harpist; alice and the rabbit hole... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2494368...e-rabbit-hole/

I'll be glad to read them. I've become slower too, with the word challenge poems.

Really enjoyed that harpist poem.Hope Kevin keeps up his poetry.

"I don't know how we two poets find ourselves"."Like Seeds in the Belly of a Sparrow" by Lois Roma-Deeley
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/like...asparrow.shtml

No problem with the lol poems... I've posted some of my Word Can poems after your noting... some assignment poems may follow.

Enjoyed very much... lots to take in :)

"Just as in a sponge, there is in the orange a yearning to recover its content" - Francis Ponge; l'Orange... https://allpoetry.com/l'Orange