Alphabetical Poem First Lines

A war poem with heart... enjoyed :)

Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:

"My strength plucked up the hills," - Xiang Yu; Song of Gaixia... https://www.cn-poetry.com/xiangyu-po...ixia-song.html

Ai! A-sad song made for the poet's horse!

"You send me your poems,"."Conspiracy" by Robert Creeley
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8511985-T...Robert-Creeley

Enjoyed this playful? poem :)

Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:

"forbidden door Palace tree moon trace pass" - Zhang Gu; Send a gift to the palace’s singers and dancers... https://www.classicchinesepoetry.com/tag/zhang-gu/

Beautiful poem! You surely read the more complete second translation below the first one.

"A storm has brought down the last of the leaves."."The Wanderer " by Alison Hicks
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/thewanderer.shtml

Of course :)

Lost in a book ? Enjoyed :)

"Because I cannot sleep" - Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi; Because I cannot sleep... https://www.poemine.com/Mewlana-Jala...not-sleep.html

Interesting poem. Produced in a moment of sleeplessness?

"Constantly near you, I never in my entire"."The Horse Show" by William Carlos Williams
https://allpoetry.com/The-Horse-Show

Sleep: perhaps, Rumi was quite prolific in his writing/utterances to scribes and has even become the "best selling poet" in the United States according to sources"... "(His) letters testify that Rumi kept very busy helping family members and administering a community of disciples that had grown up around them."... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi

A tender poem in a different style I hadn't seen before, separate from his use of lighthearted minimalism... Enjoyed :)

"DragonFly trapped in solid amber" - L G Mace; DragonFly In Amber... https://allpoetry.com/poem/18548060-...er-by-L-G-Mace

Strong image!Poor Dragonfly!


"Eternal Time, that wastest without waste, That art and art not, diest, and livest still;Most slow of all, and yet of greatest" Eternal Time, that wastest without waste" by Anonymous
https://www.poemine.com/Anonymous/Et...out-Waste.html

Anonymous at her best at explaining eternal time... Enjoyed :)

"Fair little scout, that when the iron year" - Archibald Lampman; The Song Sparrow... https://www.poemine.com/Archibald-La...g-Sparrow.html

Anonymous is talented!

Charming spring song.


"Glum is the sky, by night imprisoned,""Glum is the sky" by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev
https://allpoetry.com/Gum-Is-The-Sky

So glad no forest fire from lightning as it happens here on occasion, gloomy but benign... unless that's what the sky is hatching?! Enjoyed :)

"How about we peer through the windowed centuries," - Mr. Numi Who-; Upon Sweet Flowering Amethysts... https://allpoetry.com/poem/16997767-...Mr.-Numi-Who-/

I don't know if they have these burnings in Russia or whatever landscape the poet had in mind when he wrote that poem.

Very original use of language by Mr Numi. But I would have to read the poem more times to understand what it actually is about.


"I will light novels on fire, hold them high, let syntax drip"."The Ghazai I Asked For"
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/theg...askedfor.shtml

Mr N's poem: Seems to be a stream of consciousness poem that leaves the reader out of the equation.

A poet in search of words IMHO ?

"Jonah, Jonah I spat you out" - Sea Opal; Jonah's Indigestion... https://allpoetry.com/poem/16028787-...n--by-Sea-Opal

Lol!

Yes, maybe or sensations produced by language.?

Lollolol! Enjoyed Sea Opal's sense of humour and the inversion of the story with the fish !

"KNOW you the river near to Grez,"."KNOW you the river near to Grez"
https://www.poemine.com/Robert-Louis...r-To-Grez.html

Wonderful poem :) Summary and some facts:

• https://allpoetry.com/Know-You-The-River-Near-To-Grez
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grez-sur-Loing

"Look at the letters" - RebeccaRose; Learn... https://allpoetry.com/poem/18626828-...by-RebeccaRose