Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Simple and beautiful

A poem by a poet with "Q"in his name:
"When young, I'd not enjoyed the common pleasures" Returning to live in the Southùby Tao Quiang
http://www.chinese-poems.com/young.html

Home from confinement... enjoying the everyday. "eight or nine rooms there in my thatched hut." - seems like a large home for a thatched hut. Enjoyed :)

"Reverse cannot befall" - Emily Dickinson; Reverse cannot befall... https://allpoetry.com/Reverse-cannot-befall

Lol! A rich politician?

Curious ED poem. Diamond set quite out of reach. Did Emily consult a map?

"Say he eats a grapefruit, flays thick rind,". "Miracle at Hiroshima" by Paola R. Bruna
http://www.versedaily.org/2024/miracleathiroshima.shtml

Perhaps :)

Emily - I believe she had access to a fine library at home and would have been very familiar with all of the books.
Another summary: https://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.c...ot-befall.html

Hiroshima/Nagasaki: The miracle of survival... the horrors of surviving. I pray never again.
Enjoyed :)

"The voice of my poem" - Little Dragonfly; [The Voice of My Poem]... https://allpoetry.com/poem/16026237-...ttle-Dragonfly

I had forgotten about the prowling bee. Enjoyed the analysis.

Succinct clean poem. Enjoyed!

"UNDER a tree where the breezes blow,"."Under A Tree" by Edgar Albert Guest
https://www.poemine.com/Edgar-Albert...er-A-Tree.html

Wonderful poem of innocence :)

"Vincent Watchman was shot" - Luci Tapahonso; "Pay Up or Else"... https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/lt-pay.htm

Same here, but no poem about it that I know.


"Wind against the trees, and then the cause of the hunger"."An Economics" by David Gregory Welch
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/aneconomics.shtml

My first image is an accident... an economy of understanding for my part... Enjoyed :)

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

"they came in droves" - D.A. Xiaolin Spires; rookery...
https://www.orions-belt.net/archives/rookery

Me too! Yes, the poem is a riddle for me too, but some strong images.

Interesting poem built like a row of flying birds.

"Yes we are fierce, yes we take our"."Migrant Letters" by Luisa A. Igloria
http://www.versedaily.org/2020/migrantletters.shtml

"a row of flying birds"... extraterrestrial bug type beings is my guess :)

Sad poem. I always thought as a child I was unrooted too much, to my detriment, but in these latter-days I realize that it is nothing in comparison to those who are forcibly uprooted beyond their control, whatever the circumstances. Enjoyed :)

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

"When I became a bird, Lord, nothing could not stop me." - Liz Berry; BIRD... https://www.poetryinternational.com/...103-26701_BIRD

Spoken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLo6iQM7ud0

My family moved also a lot and I didn't like it. But you're right. Nothing compares with the forced migrations today.

Luminous coming of age poem!

"Awake in bed I listened to my father"."The Folk Songs of North America" by Ann Huston
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/thef...hamerica.shtml

Another wonderful retrospective... Enjoyed :)

"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—" - John Keats; Bright Star... https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/bright-star/

Enjoyed that bright poem.


"Crow realized God loved him-"."Crow's Theology" by Ted Hugues
https://www.poemine.com/Ted-Hughes/Crow-s-Theology.html

Odd poem by Ted, though I'm not well versed with his poetry; a summary: https://theexaminedlife.org/library/...gs-of-the-crow Enjoyed :)

"Do I have time" - Mary Ruefle; Hello Rooster... https://www.versedaily.org/2025/

Thanks for the summary, I enjoyed it, had quite forgotten that Ted Hughes had been the husband of Sylvia Platt?



"Everyone knows her secret:"Lana Turner" by Jo Sarzotti
http://www.versedaily.org/2020/lanaturner.shtml