Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Moving in its simplicity of language. Enjoyed!


"In the last year of the old drought,"."The Last Gate to an Old Life" by Romeo Oriogun
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/thel...noldlife.shtml

"while writing into sunset the sonnet / that follows every bird flying"... Enjoyed :)

"July 4th fireworks jar American nights," - Henry Allen; July: A Sonnet... https://theamericanscholar.org/july-a-sonnet/

I fully share the feelings conveid in the above poem.


"Killer whales have stopped reproducing.".."Why have children when the world is ending?" by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
http://www.versedaily.org/2023/whyha...drenwhen.shtml

Somber poem. Brings to mind a Sci-fi story: The Screwfly Solution... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwfly_Solution Enjoyed :)

"Laughter sort o' settles breakfast better than digestive pills;" - Edgar Albert Guest; Laughter... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8471207-L...r-Albert-Guest

It's somber indeed. There aren't many options starting with "k". As for the misogynist disease it still exists here in the tropics, by the quantities of feminicides
which appear in the news.

Enjoyed so much this poem about laughter! An antidote against so many evils.


"My wife and I rented a lake house at Cayuga Lake." ."Wanting Kids" by Bunkong Tuong
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/wantingkids.shtml

"feminicide" :(

"After the room returned to speech, she read her novel / And I wrote. During lunch I read poetry to her / Between bites of sandwich and dark red cherries."... Enjoyed :)

"Nor dread nor hope attend" - William Butler Yeats; Death... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8453361-D...m-Butler-Yeats

Synthetic and to the point.


"Overnight, it seems, the butterfly bush,"."To Stand Astonished" by Terry Kennedy
http://www.versedaily.org/2023/tostandastonished.shtml

Love this... a very contemplative poem. Enjoyed :)

"People in the neighborhood called him The Writer" - Anne Pierson Wiese; The Writer... https://www.versedaily.org/2011/thewriter.shtml

"The Writer." A kind of short story poem. Sad but enjoyed.

A poem by a poet with a "Q " in her name:
"That we might be rootless, ruthless, industrious, dust—"Caisson" by Carol Quinn
http://www.versedaily.org/2009/caisson.shtml

Enigmatic poem for me... I see death and its aftermath disjointed here... and there. Enjoyed :)

"Rust is the reliable color of" - Marilyn Yung; Rust... https://marilynyung.com/2020/08/31/an-ode-to-rust/

re " Caisson": Seems to me a spirit visiting earth after death.

Interesting poem and very fitting image. Never stopped to think about rust as a color that combines degradation and resilience.

"Strings slide in" . "The Cello" by Andrea Potos
http://www.versedaily.org/2022/thecello.shtml

Craving a bit of Yo Yo Ma now... Enjoyed :)

"The art of losing isn’t hard to master;" - Elizabeth Bishop; One Art... https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/...zabeth-bishop/

Liked the poem by EB and the analysis. Wasn’t aware that the poet herself had suffered so many severe losses.

"Under vague silver moonlight"."The Trees At Night" by William Kerr
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...at-night-37821

"The lonely lovely trees sigh / For summer spent and gone:" Enjoyed :)

"Vultures on Route One-Six-Three, - Ron Singer; Vultures on Route 163... http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...route-163.html

Dark but true poem about predation.


"Warm-hearted shining silver lyre"."Sonnet of Homage to Manuel de Falla Offering Him Flowers" by Federico Garcia Lorca
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...m-flowers.html
Manuel de Falla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeSfJiuGJQE

PS- The funny thing about poetryatlas is that sometimes the poems appear to me and other times they don't because of copyright restrictions.