Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Lol! Cryptic children rhymes

"One morning my mother laid her body across the driveway" "Garage" by Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/garage.shtml

Tragic moment in time for a child to witness... enjoyed this little vignette :)

"Pizza again" - Harold r Hunt Sr; Pizza Again... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/961650/pizza-again/

could only find a title, sorry- .

Questions of Travel” by Elizabeth Bishop

Questions of Travel
There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams
hurry too rapidly down to the sea,
and the pressure of so many clouds on the mountaintops
makes them spill over the sides in soft slow-motion,
turning to waterfalls under our very eyes.
—For if those streaks, those mile-long, shiny, tearstains,
aren't waterfalls yet,
in a quick age or so, as ages go here,
they probably will be.
But if the streams and clouds keep travelling, travelling,
the mountains look like the hulls of capsized ships,
slime-hung and barnacled.

Think of the long trip home.
Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?

https://allpoetry.com/Questions-of-Travel

Enjoyed this poem. After all everyone got a party¡


Poem by a poet with "Q" in her nam

"At sixteen"."By the Light of the Moon" by Peg Quinn
http://www.versedaily.org/2021/bythe...fthemoon.shtml

second word,

I Remember, I Remember

by Thomas Hood

I remember, I remember
The house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn;
He never came a wink too soon
Nor brought too long a day;
But now, I often wish the night
Had borne my breath away.

Sad poem of the Viet Nam war era. Thought 'beckoning' might be better than 'beaconing' at the end. Enjoyed otherwise :)

Lol... another tie... Enjoyed "I Remember"

"Radiant rays, rising sun,"- Mutahir Ahsan; Radiant Rays... https://vocal.media/poets/radiant-rays

Enjoyed both "r" poems.
Absolutely agree with "beckoning" some slip of the pen.

"I remember"- sweetly nostalgic

"Seeing is not imaging"."What is it like to be a bat" by Cheryl Moskowitz
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/what...tobeabat.shtml

"pipistrelle" and "qualia" are new to me... Enjoyed :)

"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —" - Emily Dickinson; Tell all the Truth but tell it slant... https://allpoetry.com/Tell-all-the-T...-tell-it-slant

Also to me!

"Under the rose-tree's dancing shade"."Le Panneau" by Oscar Wilde
https://allpoetry.com/Le-Panneau

Enjoyed the dream quality of the poem :)

"Vincent! There is no living star so sweet" - Stephanie Cynthia; Vincent... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1616181/vincent/

Enjoyed! At some points I got the feeling that the poet makes sacrifices to rhythm and rhyme, but on the whole it is a fine homage to van Gogh.


"What exists in the shadow of a thing"."First Image of a Black Hole" by Jason Gray
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/firs...lackhole.shtml

Interesting mix of the metaphysical with science... Enjoyed :)

Poem with an 'x' in its title:

"Some prowl sea-beds, some hurtle to a star" - Dannie Abse; X-ray... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-56d21793976b8

A very touching poem!

"you wash your hands slowly, in daydream and water."."self-portrait as a child in america" by Esther Ra
http://www.versedaily.org/2023/selfp...namerica.shtml

*pop* imaginative poem... Enjoyed :)

Poem title with a 'z' in it:

"'No poetry before' - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti; Zang Tumb Tumb (usually referred to as Zang Tumb Tuuum)... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zang_Tumb_Tumb

One of your great finds, tailor, :). I heard a lot about Marinetti, but never about Zang Tumb, Tumb or Zang Tumb, Tuuum. He influenced the Brazilian modernists too, who started to pay attention to the sound of the words.


"A tiny hut that seems to be"."Gamzrdeli" by Akaki Tsereteli
https://allpoetry.com/Gamzrdeli