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Recently watched part of a series about the Habsburgs.. specifically Empress Elisabeth :) Enjoyed the homage to Wien :)
"Living in a stone den is a poet-" - Hu Mingfu; Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-E..._the_Stone_Den
An unique poem that seems to change with the evolution of the Chinese language itself.
Our Empress Leopoldina, wife to Pedro I, was also from the house of Habsburg.
"Mr. Macklin takes his knife"." Mr. Macklin’s Jack O’Lantern" by David McCord
https://poets.org/poem/mr-macklins-jack-olantern
:)
Delightful Halloween poem... Enjoyed :)
"Now as Heaven is my Lot, they're the Pests of the Nation!" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge;
A Soliloquy of the Full Moon, She Being in a Mad Passion... https://allpoetry.com/A-Soliloquy-Of...-A-Mad-Passion
Lol! Moon opining about poets! Enjoyed ¡
"On the way to Kew,"!":"On the way to Kew," by William Henley
https://allpoetry.com/On-The-Way-To-Kew
My Mother lived in that general area of England as a child... I can imagine her as the protagonist. Enjoyed :)
"PERCHED on my city office-stool," - Wilfred Gibson ; The Ice-Cart ...https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/ice-cart
Loved The Ice -Cart sliding into a dream
A poem by Li Qi:
"Through the bright day up the mountain, we scan the sky for a". "An Old War Song " by Li Qi
https://www.cn-poetry.com/liqi-poetry/old-war-song.html
As the summary stated an unusual anti-war poem for the period... Enjoyed :)
"Robbie was the master of the robot pig helicopter for sure." - PinkFaerie5; Robot Pig Helicopter... https://allpoetry.com/poem/17620621-...by-PinkFaerie5
Enjoyed the playfulness of this poem!
"Stranger! if from the crowded walks of life"."Inscription" by Alaric Alexander Watts
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8572911-I...lexander-Watts
Solace and solitude... a nice couplet... Enjoyed :)
"The nation’s destiny is intertwined as a thicket of coiled rattan" - Zen Master PHAP THUAN (DO PHAP THUAN); The Nation’s Destiny... https://share.google/kYKDBTDLZx3zekm0C
Enjoyed the poem and the page of Vietnamese poems. How did you find it? I sometimes look for a different site, but I usually don’t find it.
"Under bare Ben Bulben's head"."Under Ben Bulben - VI
by William Butler Yeats
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...ulben--vi.html
Wild card google searches.
Yeats' own funerary poem it appears... Enjoyed :)
"Virtue, the greatest of all monarchies!" - Jonathan Swift; Ode To The Hon. Sir William Temple... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...m-temple-35791
Charming poem, the institutions and words may be old, but much of the sentiment sounds up to date. I like Swift and his Gulliver very much.
"We know them as gray lumps in the road," "Oh, Possum" by Steve Straight
http://www.versedaily.org/2022/ohpossum.shtml
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An homage to an expired 'possum... Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:
"Ribbed cuffs & taper" - Rex Ybañez; Sweater Weather... https://peculiarmormyrid.com/rex-ybanez/
Ai!
Loved the luxurious language of Mr Ybañez poem:"enunciating the curvature of
caricatures, drawing" or as he says himself
"YE ’ve seen the blooming rosy brier,"."Jean of Aberdeen " by Alexander Laing
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...-aberdeen.html
As fair a fairy is Jean of Aberdeen... loved this Scottish homage to a lady fair. Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:
"A flowering orchid in spring, " - Zhang Jiuling; ORCHID AND ORANGE I ... https://100tangpoems.wordpress.com/2...id-and-orange/