Death has visited my church family once more... immediate family doing ok.
Harrowing tale... Enjoyed :)
"Life is a swift, deep river" - Karl Flaster; Life... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...?TextId=940977
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Death has visited my church family once more... immediate family doing ok.
Harrowing tale... Enjoyed :)
"Life is a swift, deep river" - Karl Flaster; Life... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...?TextId=940977
So sorry to learn that!
Liked this poem about the brevity of life!
"My language is a Bedouin thief, delighting in foreign sands;"."Wanderlust Ghazal" by Dipika Mukherjee
http://www.versedaily.org/2024/wanderlustghazal.shtml
Wonderful language to explore :) Enjoyed.
"Night comes, a Madonna clad in scented blue." - Louise C. Wallace; Night... https://songofamerica.net/song/night-5/
Enjoyed poem and song. A tenor almost soprano voice.
"Outside town, past the house of the carpenter,"Nocturne" by Melissa Kwasny
http://www.versedaily.org/2024/nocturne_mk.shtml
"Pill bottles line my cabinet like little dancers / ready to perform." Unusual poem, but enjoyable :)
"Pink soft hands, yellow rippling wine, " - Lu You; Tender hands... https://www.cn-poetry.com/luyou-poem...ands-poem.html
Delicate poem,though I usually have the feeling when I read this Chinese poems that they sound much better in Chinese.
A poem by a poet with "Q" in his name
"Man's life is like the morning dew,","Three Poems to my Wife" by Qin Jia
https://www.cn-poetry.com/qinjia-poe...s-to-wife.html
Sweet and tender poem (ruined by the English translation most likely)... Enjoyed :)
"Rocky shale, pale voile," - Paul Cameron Brown ; Blue*Eyed Grasses ... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...es-13464435706
Lovely pioneer poem!
"Small motors for taming grass moan the day not so hot, in the Times the columns of the dead are short ones"."Geometry" by Karen Kevorkian
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/geometry.shtml
Wonderful images and language... Enjoyed :)
"They're coming! And it seems so long" - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; They're Coming!... https://allpoetry.com/They%27re-Coming!
The link didn't open, but found the poem in All poetry. Charming poem about the coming of the flowers in spring.
"Underneath an apple-tree"."Apples Growing" by Will Carleton
https://www.poetrycat.com/will-carleton/apples-growing
Sorry :( Again, I forgot to check the link (smacks head)... The ! was ignored... corrected.
Darling poem. Enjoyed :)
"Vision of beauty! there floats not a cloud " - Susanna Moodie; The Luminous Bow. ... https://www.poetrycat.com/susanna-mo...e-luminous-bow
Aiiiii! Welcome to the club!
Enjoyed this radiant poem!
"When I was a child I used to read"."Palanquin" by Matthew Zapruder
https://www.versedaily.org/2024/palanquin.shtml
Enjoyed this personal retrospective :)
Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:
"The black dog approaches?" - Jenny Xie; Melancholia... https://poetrysociety.org/poems-essa...on-melancholia
Wow! A very original approach to poetry. I hope she arrives at a stage where she doesn't feel the need to explain it any more.
Interesting poetry site!
"You sit that plastic-wrapped heart down on my"."A Street to Fall on" by Afrizal Malna
https://poetrysociety.org/poems-essa...-afrizal-malna
"... light up a poem. Scent of / plastic and corpse perfume." Imaginative word play... lost on the context however... Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:
"I come from ablaze" - Zoey Yazzie; Ultraviolet Velveteen and Corn—Husked Satin... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...n-husked-satin