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Boy Breaking Glass... Wonderful poem; tragic and triumphant of (what I can only imagine) a snippet of the American black experience.
Hopefully not a duplicate:
"Xylophone duet, synchronized strikes" - Chad M. Horn; Xylophone... https://allpoetry.com/poem/13536344-...y-Chad-M.-Horn
Enjoyed "Xylophone"
"You know that house she called home,"A Summer Place (1977) by Anne Stevenson
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/a-summer-place/
Enjoyed especially: "He worked the place as a farm,
though how, with stones for soil, she never knew.
Partly she hoped he’d been a poet, too.
Why else hang Haystack mountain and its view
from northwest windows?"... with a twist ending :)
"Zephyrus, the god of the wind from the west" - Joseph May; Summer's Zephyr... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/summers_zephyr_625056
Enjoyed this poem about the four stations !
"Another armored animal--scale" The Pangolin by Marianne Moore
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ems/15529.html
Fascinating poem... Found this document to help me with "The Pangolin": https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%...oAuthType=true
"BY a route obscure and lonely," - EA Poe; DREAM-LAND.... https://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/drmlandc.htm
re:"The Pangolin". Couldnīt access the document (needs signing in) but found this somewhat long comment on the poem:
https://www.modernamericanpoetry.org...thers-pangolin
Enjoyed DREAM-LAND, found the reference poem "Ultima Thule"http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/230/ultima-thule.html It seems Atlas poems are now visible to me, donīt ask me why.
"Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings".A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (1979) by Craig Raine
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poe...postcard-home/
Lol... I finally accessed your The Pangolin link... :) ... hey! Sixth times a charm: more insights found !andQuote:
The pangolin, trying to exist as peacefully as possible in his own world, is an exemplar of a kindly manner. The monks, also exemplars, who worked away peacefully, creating good crafts and at last dying and lining up along the stone mullions, became in the end, part of the design--and the poem is concerned with the overall design in life, in art and in language.
Craig Raine's poem is delightfully obtuse... enjoyed the analysis after the poem :)Quote:
A Moore poem has its armor, too, the armor of meaning within meaning and the armor of reference within reference, all of it, of course, leading to one conclusion--in this case, a major Christian affirmation.
"1) Did the people of Viet Nam" - Denise Levertov; What Were They Like?... https://www.oatridge.co.uk/poems/d/d...-they-like.php
"Did the people of Viet Nam" Beautiful, terrible and very much up to date!
"Even now there are places where a thought might grow" —A Disused Shed in County Wexford (1975)Derek Mahon
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poe...ounty-wexford/
A very somber poem invoking Treblinka and Pompeii... and mushrooms; mushrooms, and their clouds, most appropriate for these times :(
"Father, father, where are you going" - William Blake; The Little Boy Lost... https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/the-little-boy-lost
William Blake; The Little Boy LostTouching poem with ample implications!
"Gently fall the shadows gray," Slumber Song by Arthur Macy
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ber-song-38566
Such a sweet poem :)
"Hushed as the grave is the village, and now from the belfry tower," - Hartwig, Gustav; The Eve of St John: Translated from the German of Gustav Hartwig." trans. Theodore Martin... https://dvpp.uvic.ca/poems/blackwood...f_st_john.html
A sad but very intense poem. German Victorianism?! I tried to find the German original or, at least, more information about Gustav Hartwig, but wasnīt successful so far. In the German Poets Lexicon Gustav Hartwig was mentioned as the pseudonym of Guſtav Hirſch, but that didnīt help very much as there is no more information about the latter either.
"It was the first gift he ever gave her," The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me (1990) by Eavan Boland
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poe...other-gave-me/
"it was the first gift... " I'm sensing not the last, poetic tension notwithstanding... enjoyed :)
"Just so, Jesus raps—He does not weary—" - Emily Dickinson; CXXXVII... https://www.bartleby.com/113/5137.html
Re: Gustav Hartwig... still more research needed. I did find a google book entry with the story of "The Rat-Catcher of Hameln" being attributed to Gustav Hartwig... https://books.google.nl/books?id=xNs...artwig&f=false but you haven't access.
It appears that the story has legs through many authors and iterations.
re: Gustav Hartwig: Could access the poem. Some curiosities about the Pied Piper, but again, saw no mention of Hartwig:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_Piper_of_Hamelin
re CXXXVII. It isnīt clear to me, who is that "me" thatīs speaking. It seems that it is a part of a big poem. But even by going back and forward I didnīt get the whole picture.
"Kept on compromising on life". Kept On Compromising on Life by Noshi Gillani
https://www.poetrytranslation.org/po...mising-on-life