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:( Hoping and praying you are well today.
Malaya: Enjoyed the dirge, and the invoking of Olivia :)
"Now that the pain is gone, I too can smile" - Elizabeth Stoddard; Now that the pain is gone, I too can smile.... https://www.litscape.com/author/Eliz...Can_Smile.html
So much pain in that poem!
"O curfew of the setting sun! O Bells of Lynn!"."The Bells of Lynn"
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
https://www.litscape.com/author/Henr...s_of_Lynn.html
Seems to e the original poem that inspired Longfellow:
https://appsprod.northshore.edu/poet...s_of_lynn.html
T'would love to hear the bells of Lynn. Another poem of Nahant: https://appsprod.northshore.edu/poet...s_of_lynn.html
Honorable mention: Endor: "located between the Hill of Moreh and Mount Tabor in the Jezreel Valley. It is mentioned twice more in the Hebrew Bible, in 1 Samuel and in Psalm 83". "Location: A Canaanite city mentioned in the Book of Joshua, located between the Hill of Moreh and Mount Tabor. Key events: The Israelites failed to dispossess the city and its inhabitants." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endor_(village)
Enjoyed :)
"Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn" - Emily Dickinson; Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn... https://www.litscape.com/author/Emil..._The_Lawn.html
It is the same link I posted above.
Loved this definition of presentiment by ED.
Poem by a poet with "Q" in his name.
"A green castle is set ablaze, not by"."Pagoda Tree Flowers" by Ren Xianqing.
https://modernchinesepoetry.com/issue_9.php
Oops! I must have skipped your link.
Delicate poem... Enjoyed the other two poems too :)
"Robin, robin, sing to me," - Hannah Flagg Gould; To A Robin... https://www.litscape.com/author/Hann...o-A-Robin.html
Never mind,
Cute Robin poem :)
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!"."To Autumn" by John Keats..
https://www.litscape.com/author/John...To-Autumn.html
"Drowsed with the fume of poppies"; "Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn / Among the river sallows, borne aloft"... Wonderful poem of Autumn :)
"There is no change upon the air," - Letitia Elizabeth Landon; New Year's Eve... https://www.litscape.com/author/Leti...Years-Eve.html
Rather sad and nostalgic poem!
"Under the palms of San Diego"."The Realms of Gold" by Alfred Noyes
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...s-of-gold.html
"The tree-toads purred"... lol, otherwise a fine descriptive poem of San Diego and its environs. Enjoyed :)
"V.B. Wigglesworth" - John Updike; V.B. Nimble, V.B. Quick... https://www.poeticous.com/john-updik...mble-v-b-quick
Enjoyed this day of a scientist!
"Walk swiftly in the wet November day," ."Welcome Your Confusion as a Guest"
by Ellen Reiss
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...s-a-guest.html
A wonderful N.Y. outing in the rain :)
Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:
"Before and after school " - Frank X. Walker; Death by Basketball... https://aaregistry.org/poem/death-by...rank-x-walker/
"another shooting/another tragic death/another little genius/who will never test out/of a dream"_ Sadly familierˇ
"YE fretted pinnacles, ye fanes sublime,"Oxford"
by Thomas Warton
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2860/oxford.html
"https://mypoeticside.com/poets/thomas-warton-poems"
"... Ye high-arched walks, where oft the whispers clear / Of harps unseen have swept the poet’s ear;"... "Thy genuine bards immortal Chaucer leads: / His hoary head o’erlooks the gazing choir, / And beams on all around celestial fire..." Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:
"you’re a bow tie, all drawn in except" - Ziyi Yan; to Z... https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/to-z/
Enjoyed the poem! Complex "Ź" poem.
About Ocean Vuong https://www.oceanvuong.com/about
"Among twenty snowy mountains,"."Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens
https://allpoetry.com/Thirteen-Ways-...at-a-Blackbird
O.V. is quite an accomplished poet :)
Masterful observations and brevity... Enjoyed very much :)
"Black queen on the red king," - John Updike; Solitaire... https://www.poeticous.com/john-updike/solitaire