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oops... I had fallen asleep at the keyboard again.
lol... "He lives, now, / in the south of France. His poems arrive / by mail, and we read them and do not understand."
"From a new peony," - Mona Van Duyn ; Sonnet for Minimalists... https://knopfdoubleday.com/2013/04/1...r-minimalists/
"Sonnet for Minimalists". Enjoyed this modern sonnet pairing bloom and decay!
"God gave me a mother, and I'll never know,"."God Gave Me A Mother" by Ron Tranmer
https://www.litscape.com/modernautho..._A_Mother.html
A sweet homage to his mother :)
"Here's to the mice that scare the lions," - Vachel Lindsay; Here's To The Mice!... https://www.best-poems.net/vachel_li..._the_mice.html!
"Here's To The Mice!..." Wonderful! to be distributed in most countries before the election of new governments.
"I cannot go to school today,". "Sick" Shel Silverstein
https://poets.org/poem/sick
re: elections: lol... that and the movie "The Mouse That Roared"
re: "Sick" - lol, I wonder (without googling this time) which came first, this poem or the song Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh by Allan Sherman
"Just connect" - Yuliia Lapushanska; Connection... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/connection-56/
re: I´ll have to look up "The Mouse That Roared" and "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" by Allan Sherman.:)
"Just connect". Had some difficulty in connecting with this poem.
"Keen in his blood ran the old mad desire"."The Knight-Errant" by Virna Sheard
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...t-errant-31227
re: "connecting" - Lol!
Interesting poem with another after the ***... to counter. Enjoyed :)
"Laws, as we read in ancient sages," - James Beattie; Law... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw163.html
"Laws". So true!
"Maru Mori brought me"."Ode to My Socks" by Pablo Neruda
https://poets.org/poem/ode-my-socks
Delightful poem :)
"No man should stand before the moon" - Vachel Lindsay; A Sense Of Humor... https://allpoetry.com/A-Sense-Of-Humor
A Sense Of Humor...Loved this poem!
"O fair mistrust of earth's more solid shows!". "O fair mistrust of earth's more solid shows...by Anne Whitney
https://www.litscape.com/author/Anne...lid_Shows.html
Enjoyed: "And mute appeal from its inhuman ways," :)
"Past the fourth cloverleaf, by dwindling roads" - Virginia Hamilton Adair; Buckroe, After the Season, 1942... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/b...e-season-1942/
Enjoyed the images of Buckroe...
A poet with surname starting with "Q".
"He who writes a poem opens a window." Emergency by Mário Quintana
https://editoraauladeportugues.wordp...ario-quintana/
Enjoyed both poems by this wonderful minimalist :)
"Rhyme, the rack of finest wits," - Ben Johnson; A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a...against-rhyme/
" A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme..." Enjoyed this modern poem from a Renascentist poet!
"Stand in a field long enough, and the sounds"."Becoming a Redwood" by Dana Gioia
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/becoming-a-redwood/
Love this poem :) My assignment for 9/7/2023 from our Tuesdays at Two poetry group is on/about/relating to/etc. trees; gives me another way to ponder.
"Two guitars were left in a room all alone" - Victor Hernández Cruz; Two Guitars... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/two-guitars/
Curious about your assigned poem.
Loved the dialogue of the two guitars
"Upon a bank I sat, a child made seer". "Primrose" by Patrick Kavanagh
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...gh/poems/14371
Another lovely poem :)
"voice of incoming 2 express train" - Elizabeth Acevedo; A Daughter Named After Nina
... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a...ed-after-nina/
Enjoyed very much this poem and its aliterations, though I'm not sure I understood all of it. There is so much implied.
"Work out. Ten laps.". "Heartbeats" by Melvin Dixon
https://poets.org/poem/heartbeats
re: "voice" - Agreed
re: "work out" - tragic
"X Out those memories causing you constant pain." - Gregory Huyette; X Out... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401872
"X out"-Sound advice
"Ye scenes beloved! O welcome once again!"."Sonnet, On Taking A Favourite Walk, After Recovery From Sickness"by Thomas Oldham
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...sickness-38940
I think many can relate to this poem nowadays.
"Z is for Zest, you're so full of life" - Ginger Meow; Zhaira... https://discover.hubpages.com/litera...tarting-with-Z
Charming idea to include Z name acrostics!And specially by someone called "Ginger Meow" :D.
"anyone lived in a pretty how town"."anyone lived in a pretty how town" by e.e.cummings
https://poets.org/poem/anyone-lived-pretty-how-town
One of my favorites by e.e. :)
""Bring me soft song," said Aladdin." - Vachel Lindsay; Aladdin And The Jinn... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/aladdin-and-the-jinn/
Interesting modern version of Aladdin. I like Vachel Lindsay!
"Children, I come back today"."The Negro Mother" by Langston Hughes
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...es/poems/16951
Wonderful poem by Hughes suitable for every day just two days since the commemoration of Dr. King's "I have a Dream" speech on 28 August 1963 :)
"Dead friends coming back to life, dead family," - Vijay Seshadri; Bright Copper Kettles... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/b...opper-kettles/
Very beautiful!
"Each poem is a star that shines"."To Longfellow" by Fannie Isabelle Sherrick
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ngfellow-31610
Wonderful homage... and a letter of thanks! :)
"Farmers weeding at noon," - Li Shen; Toiling Farmers”... https://mandarinmatrix.org/famous-chinese-poems/
"Toiling Farmers”..." Short and impressive, specially as a nursing rhyme.
"Go, little boy,"."The Boy" by William Henry Davies
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ies/poems/3076
Simple sweet little poem :)
"He coveted her portrait." - Vachel Lindsay; The Moon Is A Painter... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-moon-is-a-painter/
"The Moon Is A Painter." Enjoyed!
"Is that Eric Garner worked". "A Small Needful Fact" by Ross Gay
https://poets.org/poem/small-needful-fact
Lol... maybe; enjoyed :)
"Just tell me who the hell am I?" - Al Young; Key to the Dollar Store... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/k...-dollar-store/
Key to the Dollar Store... Summing up the feelings of the younger generation?
"The Kings of the earth are men of might,"."Kings" by Alfred Joyce Kilmer
https://poetandpoem.com/Alfred-Joyce-Kilmer/Kings
re: Key to the Dollar Store I found a bit of insight here: https://poetrymagicscience.wordpress...delinesteffen/
"The Kings" - short contrast poem :)
"Lucy Locket lost her pocket," - Walter Crane; Lucy Locket... https://www.poetrycat.com/walter-crane/lucy-locket
re:Key to the Dollar Store- Thanks for the analysis. It really throws light on the poem.
"Lucy Locket..." .Enjoyed the rhyme.
"Mother, oh mother, come shake out your cloth!"."Babies Don’t Keep" by by Ruth Hulburt Hamilton
https://www.nancyholtzman.com/babies-dont-keep-poem/
Enjoyed :)
"Not every man has gentians in his house" - D.H. Lawrence; Bavarian Gentians... https://poetryarchive.org/poem/bavarian-gentians/
Enjoyed the gentians!
"O Merlin in your crystal cave". "Merlin" by Edwin Muir
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...uir/poems/2717
Delightful poem :)
"Pale, with the blue of high zeniths, shimmered" - Amy Lowell; The Blue Scarf... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ll/poems/20040
The Blue Scarf... Wondeful poem! How much lyricism can a blue scarf yield! That is the poetry I would like to be able to write!
"Queer are the ways of a man I know:"."The Phantom Horsewoman" by Thomas Hardy
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...rsewoman-17489
Delightfully sad poem... such a peculiar man :)
"Recycled over and over" - Angela C. Trudell Vasquez; Trying to See Auras at the Airport... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/t...t-the-airport/
"Trying to See Auras at the Airport..". Interesting poem about ageing.
" still, living like they orbit one another,"."the world is about to end and my grandparents are in love" by Kara Jackson
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/t...s-are-in-love/