A poem of sacrifice during war... a bit forced in rhyme in a spot or two... but thankfully shorter than the same titled poem by John Gower... 10,265 lines !
"She had blue skin," - Shel Silverstein; Masks... https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/masks
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A poem of sacrifice during war... a bit forced in rhyme in a spot or two... but thankfully shorter than the same titled poem by John Gower... 10,265 lines !
"She had blue skin," - Shel Silverstein; Masks... https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/masks
Loved this poem "Masks" specially the combination of text and drawing!
Browsed more poems of this author:
"There is a place where the sidewalk ends". "Where The Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wher...dewalk-ends-4/
Wonderful poem: "and the children, they know, / the place where the sidewalk ends." :)
"Urgency of almost bending an arm" - Ann Lauterbach; Door... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-63d98c80a6f53
Door... A bit enigmatic but certainly original.
"Vallombrosa! I longed in thy shadiest wood"."Memorials Of A Tour On The Continent", 1820 - XXIX. - Stanzas - Composed In The Simplon Pass by By William Wordsworth
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...plon-pass-4291
Enjoyed :)
"Ways apt and new to sing of love I'd find," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet CI. Io canterei d' Amor sì novamente. / Reply to a Sonnet of Jacopoda Lentino.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/sonnet-ci
:)
A poem by Xue Tao ( name beginning with X)
All Night I Have Listened
The early sun dissolves the mist
that has covered the mountain.
All night I have listened to the wise,
yet failed to learn.
Dimly, darkly, the eternal pines
rise without effort from the vanishing fog.
https://allpoetry.com/classics/famous_by/x
"yet failed to learn"... sadly.
"You hearken, fellows? Turned aside" - William Bliss Carman; At The Road-House: In Memory Of Robert Louis Stevenson.... https://www.poetrycat.com/william-bl...ouis-stevenson
Charming poem: Stevenson, deceased, being welcomed by great fellow writers!
"Citadel of our best names—angsty Zooey &". "Z" by Julie Marie Wade
https://poets.org/poem/z
lol... that's a lot about z's :)
"A moth ate words. A marvelous fate" - Unknown; Old English Riddle no. 47 (trans. by Roy Liuzza)
... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...h-riddle-no-47
Lol!Did anyone solve riddle 47?
"Back to where the roses rest". "St. Mary's" by Abram Joseph Ryan
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...st-marys-30223
re: riddle - I think so... https://www.bl.uk/medieval-literatur...les-in-context
Enjoyed "Back to where the roses rest": "Every single flower is fraught / With the very sweetest dreams, / Under clouds or under gleams / Changeful ever -- yet meseems / On each leaf I read God's thought." :)
"Cool! cool! cool!" - William Bliss Carman; A Faun's Song...
https://www.poetrycat.com/william-bl...n/a-fauns-song
re: Fascinating link about medieval riddle studies.:) Saved the blog to have a better look later.
Enjoyed the light hearted Faun´s song!
"Does consciousness exist only when".The Mind in State" by Fady Joudah
https://poets.org/poem/mind-state
Interesting dada poem :)
"Earmark me images" - Staceyann Chin; First Green... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...63/first-green
First Green -charming, original spring poem! :)
"Faint grew the yellow buds of light" "Om" by George William Russell
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ssell/om-30132
Interesting creation poem :)
"Go, wander, little book," - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; Go Wander... https://www.poetrycat.com/nancy-rebe...lass/go-wander
Go Wander...Tender Christian poem!
"Hail solitary star!". "To a Star Seen at Twilight" by John Rollin Ridge (1827 –1867)
https://poets.org/poem/star-seen-twilight
Beautiful ode :)
"I saw a proud, mysterious cat," - Vachel Lindsay; The Mysterious Cat... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ay/poems/19168
AAIII! and Lol! I tried to imagine it performed by children.
"Just look—nothing but sincerity". "Poem Beginning with a Line from It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" by Maggie Smith
https://poets.org/poem/poem-beginnin...-charlie-brown
Interesting images: "the sky a tigereye / banded five kinds of gold / and bronze"... enjoyed :)
"Kilrudden ford, Kilrudden dale," - William Bliss Carman; Lal Of Kilrudden... https://www.poetrycat.com/william-bl...l-of-kilrudden
"Kilrudden ford, Kilrudden dale,"- A sad tale beautiful sung.
"Lying, thinking". "Alone" Maya Angelou
https://poets.org/poem/alone
I can hear Maya's soulful voice reciting this sad/wonderful poem slowly in my mind :)
"My thoughts are like fire-flies, pulsing in moonlight;" - George MacDonald; A Mood... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...d/a-mood-25260
"A Mood..."Strong images in a concise poem.
"Now as I was young and easy under the apple"."Fern Hill" byDylan Thomas
https://poets.org/poem/fern-hill
Simply incredible poem :)
"Our generation will be known for nothing." - Jordan Nichols; Our Generation... https://pulptastic.com/jordan-nichols-poem/
"Our generation will be known for nothing." Amazing achievement by this boy. The singer Chico Buarque has a poem with the same strategie. It was written during the dictatorship and its heavy censorship when Brazilian poets and authors of lyrics devised forms and tricks to publish their poems.
"Pausing a moment ere the day was done,"."Resurrection" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...rrection-32851
A poem of repentance and renewal of spirit through faith as I read it :) though she was a spiritualist as well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Wheeler_Wilcox . Poem also tagged in an article for Paul's letter to the Corinthians; 1 Corinthians 2:2... https://biblehub.com/commentaries/ha...thians/2-2.htm
"Quite carelessly I turned the newsy sheet;" - Ella Wheeler Wilcox; A Meeting... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-meeting-32765
Meeting. How familiar this situation sounds! Enjoyed!
"Reclined on the scarp"."Cape Song" by Michael Metivier
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...0510/cape-song
Enjoyed ! Like three separate poems if one chooses :)
"Suspended lion face" - Philip Larkin; Solar... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...in/poems/14593
Solar. Beautiful, enigmatic poem!
"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one"."Tomake a prairie" by Emily Dickinson
https://poets.org/poem/make-prairie-1755
Wonderful poem by Emily :)
"Unto the songs and chariot fighting" - Friedrich Schiller; Die Kraniche des Ibykus (The Cranes of Ibycus)... https://archive.schillerinstitute.co...il_3poems.html
:) A favorite. The Cranes of Ibycus...One of Schiller´s most famous poems.
"Then hears one from the highest footing
A voice which suddenly is crying:
"See there! See there, Timotheus,
Behold the cranes of Ibycus!"
And suddenly the sky is dark'ning,
And o'er the theater away,
One sees, within a blackish swarming,
A host of cranes pass on its way."
"Vanish, dark clouds on high,". "Chorus of Spirits" Faust IV by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
https://www.escritas.org/en/t/3839/f...rus-of-spirits
Lovely poem: "While the sweet stars above / Blissfully gleam." :)
"We find your soft Utopias as white" - Vachel Lindsay; An Argument...
https://allpoetry.com/An-Argument
An Argument... Enjoyed the poem, specially the strong images!
"I go through most". "Frozen World" by Deng Xiang
https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-deng-xiang/
Enigmatic poem: "Enjoy the carefree / Wandering of goldfish"... Enjoyed :)
"Ye limpid brooks, by whose clear streams" - Francesco Petrarca; Canzone XIV. Chiare, fresche e dolci acque. / To the Fountain of Vauluse--Contemplations of Death.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...zone-xiv-28519
Petrarca Canzone XIV- Wonderful nature descriptions but, as usual, a bit whiny when it comes to love.
"Sometimes too much of a good thing is simply too much". "Zucchini Chronicles" by Emily P Gibson
https://www.authorsden.com/visit/vie...AuthorID=90930
re: Pet - agreed; believe this is why Herr Schiller advised his correspondent not to write love poems, lol.
re: Zuc - too funny and too true :)
"A washing hangs upon the line," - Elizabeth Bishop; Songs for a Coloured Singer... https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/...oloured-singer
Songs for a Coloured Singer... A very interesting poem. Because of its simple, direct approach I was wondering if it was written during her stay in Brazil, but it seems to be a very early poem.
"Bats watched them fall, cupped like tiny palms,". "Forest Starships" by Petra Kuppers
https://poets.org/poem/forest-starships
Incredible most contemporary poem :)
"City of palms! whose ancient name" - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; Zacchæus... https://www.poetrycat.com/nancy-rebe...lass/zacchaeus
Poem about a very important New Testament episode. I liked specially the part of the sycamore which shows Zaccheus eagerness at Meeting Jesus:
"Alas! how adverse were the fates
So dense the throng, so small was he!
Considering, he ran before
And climbed into a wayside tree,
And ever since the sycamore
Is blended with his history."
"dew grass a fire shine"."I Don’t Know What You’re Called, I’ll Call You by Your Sounds" bySusan Landers
https://poets.org/poem/i-dont-know-w...ou-your-sounds
Love, love, love this poem :) ... and audio ! When I grow up I want to write poetry like this :)
"Despite that you" - Todd Boss; Rocket... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/rocket/
:)
Going on with "E".
"Elliot Ray Neiderland, home from college". "Angels" by B. H. Fairchild
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/angels/