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"... Steeped in dulcet melodious tunes,"... "you taste the river in your tea." Delicate poem, enjoyed very much :)
"Raining so much after so much heat from the early summer sun that I" - Nelson D Reyes; About Quark... https://www.poeticous.com/nelson-d-reyes/about-quark
Enjoyed the narrative poem!
"Spring summons the earth to a wedding"."On thin Ice" by Salomeja Neris
https://allpoetry.com/On-Thin-Ice
Melancholy poem... One mustn't tread on thin ice. Enjoyed :)
"The solemn Sea of Silence lies between us;" - Ella Wheeler Wilcox ; The Speech of Silence... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/ell...ch-of-silence/
Wonderful love poem! Sometimes I think that people from former times were poorer in technology but had a richer language.
"Unrhymed, unrhythmical, the chatter goes:"." At the Party" by W. H. Auden
https://allpoetry.com/At-the-Party
So true.
"You cannot read me like an open book. / I'm more myself than you will ever look." :)
"VEX not the Muse with idle prayers,--" - Oliver Wendell Holmes; In Vita Minerva... https://allpoetry.com/In-Vita-Minerva
A touching nostalgic poem. It seems that inspiration ages as well as other things.
"Words fitly spoken—how they cheer"."Words filly spoken" by Ellwood Roberts
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/ell...-fitly-spoken/
Wonderful sentiment to remind us of the healing power of "fitly" words... Enjoyed :)
On a different note:
"X and asterisk: shorthand all night flowing" - David Wojahn; STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 3. THE RIGHT TO KILL... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s-library-card
Poems depicting the horrors of the Stalin era. Reminds me of the years of our dictatorship.
"you reflect on how they tried to bury us, our bodies"."After they throw eggs at your house«
by Natalie Linh Bolderston
https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/p...at-your-house/
Disturbing poem with a surprising use of language... Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:
"A dear dream" - Zahra Ahmad; Yearn for a Degree that is so Elusive... https://shaheenfoundation.co.in/inde...hra-ahmad.html
Oh my! The pain a d anxiety to get a university degree!
"A little bit of fool in me".
https://www.poemine.com/James-A-Eman...Evergreen.html
"A little bit of fool in me / Keeps evergreen my inmost tree." Enjoyed :)
"Book, book, I have found" - Annette Wynne; Book, Book... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/ann...nne/book-book/
A friendly poem about book's contents.
"Caught — the bubble"."Sonnet " by Elisabeth Bishop
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8493509-S...izabeth-Bishop
Enjoyed, though loose mercury isn't a thing to trifle with.
"Dear my friend, we are now parted," - Alexander Pushkin; Despair ... https://www.litscape.com/author/Alex...n/Despair.html
Agree about mercury.
The construction of the verses strikes me as somewhat unusual.
Here is another poem by him on a different vibe:
"Evening Zephyr". "Spanish Love Song" by Alexander Pushkin
https://www.litscape.com/author/Alex...Love_Song.html
Enjoyed :) The river Guadalquivir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalquivir
And another...
"Frost and sun -- the day is wondrous!" - Alexander Pushkin; Winter Morning... https://www.litscape.com/author/Alex...r_Morning.html