Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Much enjoyed the poem and the beautiful flower pictures.Thanks!



"A child is bumbling along the boardwalk"."Point Pelee" by Mark Nenadov
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...int-pelee.html

"placed by providence / with a wonderful symmetry / like gems set perfectly on display / eye candy for the walkers"... Enjoyed :)

"BEWARE of those who slyly pilch " - Norman Rowland Gale ; The Amateur Photographer... https://allpoetry.com/The-Amateur-Photographer

A warning! Enjoyed it's originalty.



"Calm, azure, marble sea,"At Lyme Regis
by Francis Turner Palgrave
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...yme-regis.html

Lyme Regis must be a very beautiful place... Enjoyed :)

"Drifting, drifting, light and free," - Mordekaiserblu; Jellyfish... https://allpoetry.com/poem/18534748-...Mordekaiserblu

Enjoyed this poem full of rythmical waves!


"Egg Rock, if thou art so lonely now,"."Egg Rock"
by Antoinette Purinton
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po.../egg-rock.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_Rock

"And then in softened murmur's lullaby / In mournful cadence, with the sea bird's cry." and "Peace be still". :) Enjoyed the wiki too :).

"FROM the great trees the locusts cry" - Hamlin Garland; In August... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8562543-I...Hamlin-Garland

Loved this atmospheric poem!


"GEM of all isthmuses and isles that lie,"."SIRMIO"
by Gaius Valerius Catullus
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/602/sirmio.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirmium

One of the most vulgar of poets this poem is tame in comparison; an homage to Sirmione: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirmione

"harvest moon--" - Kobayashi Issa; harvest moon--... http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...est-moon-.html

Didn't know that! Now rhere are two of them, lol! And both knew Roman times!

Enjoyed Issa's Haiku.


"I SAW these dreamers of dreams go by,"."The Gold Seekers" by Hamlin Garland
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8562523-T...Hamlin-Garland

Enjoyed the Gold Country poem... true the allure for gold is great (now $4000/oz / $141.1/g / R$ 754.89/g) I'm hoping to get a metal detector soon :)

"Jack was jumping around trying to feed his snowman a sandwich of PBJ" - The Poetic Angel; Jumping Jack...( double Acrostic)... https://allpoetry.com/poem/3797831-J...-Poetic-Angel/

Lol, You are going to check if there's gold in your country?


Enjoyed the double acrostic.

"KAZAN looks down from the Volga wall,"."Kazan« by Edna Dean Proctor
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/3177/kazan.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazan

I do live in Gold Country... my Son-in-law has found some gold flakes hereabout :)

Interesting historical poem of a rich heritage region. "The major Russian poet Gavrila Derzhavin was born in Kazan in 1743"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrila_Derzhavin Enjoyed both the poem and the wiki :)

"Love was in the hopelessness of you," - Richard Maxson; Monster... https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/201...for-halloween/

:) l need to find some gold flakes in my apartment but no chance!

Found some poems by GavriilRomanovich Derzhavin:https://allpoetry.com/Gavrila-Romanovich-Derzhavin

Enjoyed very much this poem about Frankenstein.


"Malaya's woods and mountains ring"."Dirge of the Departed Year
by John Leyden
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...rted-year.html

Lol :)

G.D.'s God: "Thou showest yourself through me / Like sun inside a tiny water drop." :) Nice find. I enjoyed his poetry very much :)

J.L.: "But let me brush the nightly dews, / Beside the shell-depainted shore, / And mid the sea-weeds sit to muse / On days that shall return no more." Enjoyed :)

"NOW tranquil beauty is no more," - Margaret Chalmers; To the Autumnal Equinox... https://allpoetry.com/To-the-Autumnal-Equinox

Beautiful poem musing on the changing of the four seasons of the year.



"O harp, with whom my childhood played," ."To My Lyre" by James Avis Bartley
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8618321-T...s-Avis-Bartley