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Rich poetic images of blood everywhere... he must have caught New York on a bad day, oh wait, he did.
"I denounce the conspiracy of these deserted offices
that erase the architecture of the forest in agony,"
Go with "G":
"Green mountains all around, and so many buildings." - Lin Sheng; Writing on the Wall of an Inn in Lin’an... https://bangalorereview.com/2019/04/...-song-dynasty/
re Lorca: "Rich poetic images of blood everywhere." Interesting comment, I never thought of that poem in that way. At that time I believe the blood images were still only related to the exploitation of natural life by the implacable economics of the big city. Later he would become one more victim of the Spanish Civil War:
"In June 1929, García Lorca travelled to the US with Fernando de los Rios on the RMS Olympic, a sister liner to the RMS Titanic.[22] They stayed mostly in New York City, where Rios started a lecture tour and García Lorca enrolled at Columbia University School of General Studies, funded by his parents. He studied English but, as before, was absorbed more by writing than by study. At Columbia, he lived in room 617 in Furnald Hall before moving to room 1231 in John Jay Hall.[23][24] He also spent time in Vermont and later in Havana, Cuba.
His collection Poeta en Nueva York (Poet in New York, published posthumously in 1940) explores alienation and isolation through some graphically experimental poetic techniques and was influenced by the Wall Street crash which he personally witnessed.[25] [26] [27]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federi...c%C3%ADa_Lorca
"Writing on the Wall of an Inn in Lin’an..." Enjoyed!
"HONEY, child, honey, child, whither are you going?"."Village Song" by Sarojini Naidu
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...idu/poems/4589
Interesting conversation poem: "The voices of the fairy folk are calling me: O listen!" :)
"I gave this world a song." - Carolyn Marie Rodgers; Affirmation: A Monologue Poem... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...monologue-poem
Affirmation: A Monologue Poem... Fantastic poem! A really collective hymn of affirmation!
"Jane Austen Beecher Stowe de Rouse"."The Mare's Nest" by Rudyard Kipling
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ares-nest-3332
An interesting poem... "A ‘Mare’s Nest’ is an old fashioned and particularly English phrase for a ridiculous situation or imbrogilo (sic).": https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rea...maresnest1.htm
"Katie Casey was baseball mad," - Jack Norworth; Take Me Out to the Ball Game... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw436.html
re "A ‘Mare’s Nest’:Thank you tailor, that was a very useful link, I didn´t know this meaning of "A Mare´s nest".
"Katie Casey was baseball mad," Jolly Poem!
"Last night I lay in an open field". "Starlight by SirJohn Collings Squire
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...tarlight-37937
"the pride of man" indeed... I say toss S3.
"My soul has had a long, hard day" - D.H. Lawrence; Fatigue... https://schabrieres.wordpress.com/20...rence-fatigue/
"toss S3" ?
"Fatigue..." (AI!) Rather sad and tired poem!
"No, Bill, I'm not a-spooning out no patriotic tosh". "A Song of the Sandbags" by Robert William Service
http://www.online-literature.com/for...92#post1399192
Found your poem here: https://www.poeticous.com/robert-w-s...f-the-sandbags
Interesting war poem with a positive ending thought :)
"Once I loved a fairy," - Vachel Lindsay; Queen Mab In The Village... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/quee...n-the-village/
:) Charming poem about the development of love in ( a man´s) life.
"Pangur Bán and I at work,"." Pangur Bán by Anonymous (Translated by Seamus Heaney)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...267/pangur-ban
Delightful poem :) "So it goes. To each his own."
"Queen Bess was Harry's daughter. Stand forward partners all!" - Rudyard Kipling; The Looking-Glass... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...try-dance-5594
The Looking-Glass... Enjoyed this folkloric take on history:).
"Rain and rain! And rain and rain!". "We To Sigh Instead of Sing" by James Whitcomb Riley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-of-sing-29186
Ah, how we grouse about the rain till there is none... a happy ending though :)
"Sometimes I dip my pen and find the bottle full of fire," - Vachel Lindsay; An Apology For The Bottle Volcanic... https://allpoetry.com/An-Apology-For...ottle-Volcanic
"My bottle spreads a rainbow-mist, and from the vapor fine/Ten thousand troops from fairyland come riding in a line." :)
"The moment when, after many years". "The Moment" by Margaret Atwood
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...wood/poems/348
Your link wouldn't load for me for some reason... found your poem here... https://poetryarchive.org/poem/moment/
Very poignant poem of what's what :)
"Until recently the universe was expanding" - Krystyna Dabrowska; Cosmos... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe.../158392/cosmos
Sorry! Some mistake with the link it isn't working for me, either.
Still learning to move about on Duck Duck.
Opportune poem at a moment when tension between Russia and Poland is increasing.
Next poem tomorrow when on PC.
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Go figure... your link is working at this time :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
With me too!?
Going on with "V":
"Very like to a dream,"."The Morning Drive" by Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow
FOR MY DAUGHTER MARGARET.
Very like to a dream,
Doth the time to me seem,
When with thee a young girl by my side,
One of summer's fine days,
In a one pony chaise,
We commenced in the morning our ride.
By the pine grove and nook,
Over bridge and through brook,
Quite at random we drove without fear;
While the birds of the grove,
In sweet harmony strove,
By their concert of music to cheer.
With none to molest us,
No home cares to press us,
Farther onward, and onward we roam;
But at length the skies lower,
And unhoped for the shower
Finds us many miles distant from home.
Even so is life's day,
Like a fair morn in May,
With hope's bright bow of promise it cheers;
But long before night,
The sun that so bright
In the morning had shone, disappears.
Do not then I entreat,
My beloved Margaret,
Be content with this world for thy portion;
Let ambition soar higher,
E'en above earth aspire,
And to God give thy heart's true devotion.
April 29, 1853.
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...nn-h-t-bigelow
(Poem didn´t load either. I believe machinations of Google are retarding the load because of ads or something)
Enjoyed ! :) Interesting rhyme scheme: aab ccd eef...
"Winter speaks" - Sabina Laura; Winter Lullabies
... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/winter-lullabies
Enjoyed that Lullaby
Poem by an author with name with "X"
LEAVE YOURSELF STRAIGHT by Halima XUDOYBERDIEVA (translation Azam Abidov)
I am not able to know. Is this world wisdom or gold,
I wished revealing all the magic, every time but was surprised,
They see my palace in detail, and a special room I hold,
No friend I find to see my heart, and for care to arise.
A thought has settled in my soul, like a bodkin and a shot,
I ask you: never fall, because:a fallen man has no support.
Jackdaws move away from you, even gardens step aside,
Thank you for your cultivation, do you like them take offense?
The mounts that you lifted up are able calmly leave behind,
Come near, but be not distressed if a stone won’t confess.
Having tired, if you wish to lean, no garden, almond – spoilt,
I ask you: never fall, because a fallen man has no support!
If you have not only taking but a good aid-giving friend,
Stand up straight yourself that every pillar in the world will fall.
Even if you have a friend that’s going up to grave – till end,
Go yourself to death and never on the way depart at all.
Live in pride!
And having mourning, act: you lucky man, in short,
I ask you: never fall, because a fallen man has no support!
https://www.ziyouz.uz/en/poetry/44-m...xudoyberdiyeva
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halima_Xudoyberdiyeva
Enjoyed :) Must have been a difficult poem to translate. "If my verses like a flower become faded
Look for me then in the sorrow of the autumn." Fascinating life.
"Your absence has gone through me" - W. S. Merwin; Separation... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-56d21285b2140
Separation... Short and to the point!Enjoyed!
"a zephyr moves the night"."Zephyr" by Jerry P. Bolton
https://www.authorsden.com/visit/vie...uthorID=158730
Lovely poem :)
"At one the wind rose," - Philip Larkin; Night-Music... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...in/poems/14590
"Night-Music.".Wonderful poem, unusual images!
"Back in the Vanished Country"."The Vanished Country" by Grantland Rice (1880-1954)
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw374.html
Incredible somber poem... sport's writer at that ! :)
"Come unto me! Ah, gentlest word" - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; Come Unto Me... https://www.poetrycat.com/nancy-rebe...s/come-unto-me
Seems an answer to "The Vanished Country" .:)
"Does that lamp still burn in my Father's house"."A Prodigal Son" by Christina Georgina Rossetti
https://www.poetrycat.com/christina-...a-prodigal-son
A hopeful prodigal son... enjoyed :)
"Echo of the clocktower, footstep" - Dana Gioia; Prayer... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-57cf1666d2db3
"and the harsh falcon its flightless young."(Aaii!) Enjoyed this original prayer.
"THE Lord God planted a garden"."God's Garden" by Dorothy Frances Gurney
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/gurney01.html#1
"One is nearer God's heart in a garden / Than anywhere else on earth." :)
"God's own best will bide the test," - Arthur Conan Doyle; Religio Medici...
https://www.poetrycat.com/arthur-con...religio-medici
in #908 I skipped "F" by mistake. Now we have two "G" poems. To avoid confusing the sequence again I go on with "H".
Arthur Conan Doyle; Religio Medici. Conan Doyle writing a religious poem is amazing in itself!
"Hebrew writing and Arabic writing go from east to west,"."Temporary Poem Of My Time" by Yehuda Amichai
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ichai/poems/64
Enjoyed... "Languages are like cats" :) The quarry: https://www.israelandyou.com/migdal-tzedek/
"In a barren springtime field" - Victoria Amelina; Poem About a Crow... https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2023/...ina-1986-2023/
Precious link, thanks, tailor! Also thanks about the impressive poem by Victoria Amelina. Going to add it to her obituary.
"Just a little hope is needed". "Just a Little Hope Is Needed" by Gagan Gill (translated by Lucy Rosenstein)
https://www.poetrytranslation.org/po...hope-is-needed
Odd simple little poem: "like a fish leaping / on wet sand".
"—kept losing self control" - Brenda Hillman; Angrily Standing Outside in the Wind... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a...e-in-the-wind/
re "Just A Little Hope Is Needed": It´s from an translation site.
"Angrily Standing Outside in the Wind..." Interesting provoking poem- Found this on the poetry of the author:"Brenda Hillman begins her new book in a place of mourning and listening that is deeply transformative. By turns plain and transcendent, these poems meditate on trees, bacteria, wasps, buildings, roots, and stars, ending with twinned elegies and poems of praise that open into spaces that are both magical and archetypal for human imagination: forests and seashores. As always, Hillman's vision is entirely original, her forms inventive and playful. At times the language turns feral as the poet feels her way toward other consciousnesses, into planetary time. This is poetry as a discipline of love and service to the world, whose lines shepherd us through grief and into an ethics of active resistance."
https://poems.com/poem/angrily-stand...e-in-the-wind/
"Like the horn you played in Catholic school". "At Last the New Arriving" by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a...-new-arriving/
re: translation - ah.
re: link - Thanx, helps with the context of the poem and her writing :)
re: "Like the horn..." - Reads like hope upon hope of moving to the big city and the new attitudes of others. Especially liked "Dance until your bones clatter." Short bio and more of Gabrielle's poetry... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...e-calvocoressi
"My heart was like a bird that fluttered joyously" - Charles Baudelaire; A Voyage To Cythera... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-ba...age-to-cythera
Baudelaire-Joy that ends in darkness.
"Nature has a thousand choirs"."Nature Has A Thousand Choirs." by Freeman Edwin Miller
https://www.poetrycat.com/freeman-ed...housand-choirs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8xYz9UI_pE Tempo Rei KinglyTime
Kingly Time
I don't delude myself
Everything will remain the way it has been
Transfering, transforming
Time and space navigating all the senses
Sugarloaf Mountain, Corcovados
Frustigated by rain and eternal wind
Soft water, hard stone
So much that there will be no thought left
Kingly time, O kingly time, O kingly time
Transform the old ways of living
Teach me, O father, what I still don't know
Mother Lady of Perpetual, help
Thought
Even the singular foundation of the human being
From one moment to the next
You can no longer find either Greeks or Bahians
Zealous mothers, owl fathers
See how dirty the waters suddenly get
Make no mistake, I don't delude myself
Everything right now can be for a second
Kingly time, O kingly time, O kingly time
Transform the old ways of living
Teach me, O father, what I still don't know
Mother Lady of Perpetual, help
Kingly time, O kingly time, O kingly time
Kingly time, O kingly time, O kingly time
Kingly time, O kingly time, O kingly time
Source: Musixmatch
Composers: Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira
Lyrics © Gege Edicoes Musicais Ltda
Tempo Rei - Gilberto Gil - LETRAS.MUS.BR
Song lyrics
https://www.letras.mus.br › MPB › Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil - Kingly Time ( music and lyrics)
"Nature": Delightful poem :)
"Kingly": Beautiful song... especially liked the dandelion visual :)
"O dandelion, rich and haughty," - Vachel Lindsay; The Dandelion... https://poets.org/poem/dandelion/print
Loved this homage to the dandelion!
"People who live by the sea"."People Who Live" by Erica Jong
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...oems/2858.html
Incredible poem by Erica Jong: "People who live by the sea / understand eternity."... such is its allure :)
"Quiet he lived, and quietly died;" - J. D. C. Fellow; On A Friend Who Died Suddenly Upon The Seashore... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...seashore-37830
On A Friend Who Died Suddenly Upon The Seashore... Hm!
"Rattle and clatter and clank and whirr,--"."Vox Clamantis" by William Arthur Dunkerley (John Oxenham)
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...lamantis-28269