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Z is for zenith, or what we’ll never reach,
a sky without its limit, a life uncontained—
though here we are, pretending to ascend,
feet fixed to earth, calling the climb a flight.
By carl phillips ( i would not have guessed i would find a poem beginning with "z"
That is always a feat, Tony! Enjoyed the poem!
"All summer, I watched moose"."Solstice " by Megan Pinto
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/solstice.shtml
Loved the poem "Yellow", tailor, it inspired this attempt:
Blue
Blue,
Soft brother
of Imperial yellow.
Where yellow is haughty,
blue is mild.
If yellow is the sun
blue is the sky.
Blue is the wide sea,
yellow the golden maize.
Yellow is acid,
blue is sad,
but together they
engender
hopeful green.
Z poems are rare... I believe someone wrote a book listing a number of them :)
Love your poem Danik 2016 :) We have a color poem thread on LitNet somewhere that has not been utilized for some time/years... maybe I'll do a search.
Solstice: "I pull silk / over my eyes, coax myself into dream, / where I cross a mossy forest floor / in reverie, the light dappling fallen trees."... Wonderful !
"Beloved! amid the earnest woes" - Edgar Allan Poe; To F--... https://allpoetry.com/To-F--
Thanks!
"Come closer."."The House of Freaks" by Nancy Miller Gomez
http://www.versedaily.org/2024/houseoffreaks.shtml
Lol... not quite surreal but odd in a good way... Enjoyed :)
"DIM-BERRIED is the mistletoe" - Walter de la Mare; Before Dawn... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8494387-B...ter-de-la-Mare
https://wordsfortheyear.com/2020/05/...y-mary-oliver/ Morning Poem” by Mary Oliver
Every morning
the world
is created.
Under the orange
sticks of the sun
the heaped
ashes of the night
turn into leaves again
Delightful poem by Mary... Enjoyed :)
"Fame's an Echo, Prattling double," - John Milton; Fame's an Echo... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...?TextId=159311
Enjoyed these both so different poems.
"Gnats drowned in the cat's water dish"."A Few Things I Learned This Week" by Lana H. Ayers
http://www.versedaily.org/2024/afewt...thisweek.shtml
Interesting observations... enjoyed :)
"Halfway between crib and cage the French " - Francis Ponge; Crate... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ms/89710/crate
Curious this poetic interest of Ponge in fruit and related objects. He was middle class, a banker's son. So no farm, agriculture or market.
"If music is the sound between" ."If music is the sound between" by Svetlana Litvinchuck
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/ifmu...dbetween.shtml
A lot to take in of family dynamics... remembrances and metaphors... Enjoyed :)
"July, when monsoon's gentle roar, " - Vinaya Joseph; July... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/july-1/
Enjoyed this take on July
"Kingsolver tells young writers to stop smoking"."The Vault" by Dan Albergotti
http://www.versedaily.org/2022/thevault.shtml
Good advise albeit an ambiguous conclusion in the last case... was he content to have vaulted or wished he hadn't ?
"Lark, skylark, spilling your rubbed and round" - Cecil Day Lewis; The Ecstatic... https://allpoetry.com/The-Ecstatic
The Ecstatic -Enjoyed form and images by Day Lewis
"My heart leaps up when I behold"."My heart leaps up" by William Wordsworth
https://allpoetry.com/My-Heart-Leaps-Up
Rainbows :) Also enjoyed the image.
"napping place for dog" - Susan Taylor Brown; Hummingbird Sage... https://www.backup.susantaylorbrown....mingbird-sage/