Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Not sure: survival or death averted?

Loved this delicate dawn poem

"Up to the star new-born in sight"."Up to the Star (version three) by Mihai Eminescu
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8566011-U...Mihai-Eminescu

Interesting parallelism... Enjoyed :)

"Violets from Plug Street Wood," - Roland Leighton; Violets - April 1915 (1916)... https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poe...s---april-1915

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Again a poem that exposes the horrors of war. Vera Brittain, Roland's fiancée was also a war poet. See your post#3086.


"When my mother forgets the word for dahlia"."When my mother forgets the word for dahlia" by Robin Turner
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/when...rforgets.shtml

:)

I do not look forward to cognitive decline... perhaps it has begun to happen in subtle ways I haven't fully grasped yet; thoughtful poem on the theme... Enjoyed :)

"Xavier’s xebec xferred xenophiliacally " - Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock; Xavier’s Xebec... https://vocal.media/poets/xavier-s-xebec

I think as long it is subtle it is fine.

"Vocal is not available in your country" but I at least could see that all words started with X.

"Yesterday we sat on the bank of the Kamo River, laughing". "Three Poems" by Gary Young
http://www.versedaily.org/2019/threepoems.shtml

:( I'm so sorry. The artwork ("Ancient Wharf" by Derek Fiechter) showed a "xebec" in the foreground with others in a golden light... the poem with all its words starting with 'x'. I found a video of instrumental music that evidently goes with the art... https://www.google.com/search?client...IaViwLa4Q,st:0

Then I found a Google AI blurb that might be available for you: https://www.google.com/search?q="Xav...t=gws-wiz-serp

Surprising poem !... Enjoyed so very much :)

Poem title starting with the letter 'z':

"Amusing, zebras zooming, mozzies abuzz," - T4ky0; Zookeeper’s Zoetrope... https://allpoetry.com/poem/17569607-...trope-by-T4ky0

Thanks for all that trouble, tailor. Enjoyed the music. Yes the blurb with the smiling girls opened, but I didn't quite know what to make with it.

A very ingenious aliteration poem. Enjoyed so much!

"Absolute, the sudden silence—the fan stops"."Abecedarian for the Power Outage" by Catherine Pierce.
http://www.versedaily.org/2024/abece...eroutage.shtml

Lol... the smiling girls all direct to the poem I first linked, don't know why.

Enjoyed this Abecedarian offering :)

"Because her days were making a garden " - Brendan Kennelly; A Half-finished Garden... https://wfupress.wfu.edu/poem-of-the...ndan-kennelly/

Enjoyed that half finished garden!


"Cabbage Night that year was bright and humid." ."Hunger" by Michael Goodfellow
http://www.versedaily.org/2022/hungry.shtml
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischief_Night

Odd tension in this poem... poltergeist ? Enjoyed :)

"Darkness is not a death, does not obliterate," - Alice B. Fogel; Forgiving the Darkness
... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...g-the-darkness

"Hunger"? I think so.


"Each year I cut a tree sprout from the chimney" "The Donkey on the Road" by Jesse Graves
http://www.versedaily.org/2022/thedonkeyontheroad.shtml

"The donkey on the road to Brementown meets
his crew of cast-outs, no sorrier than most,
none really the musicians they pretend to be."
I think these strophe refers to this tale:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town...ians_of_Bremen

A needful change of location. I remember the Brementown tale... Enjoyed :)

"Five more books in a box to be carried out to the car," - Mark Halliday; The Halls... https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-...095/the-halls/

Poem about invisibility and belonging. Enjoyed!

"Gingerly, yes,"."DRAWBRIDGE + MOAT" by Natalie Louise Tombasco
http://www.versedaily.org/2023/drawbridge+moat.shtml

Evocative poem after the style of Marianne Moore... invoking Sapphic images and a secret language. A wonderful treatise of enjambment... all in all a dense wonder of a poem. Enjoyed :)

"Hour by hour I sit, " - Sappho?; A lyric (The vigil)... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...l?TextId=46338