Incredible family history journey in poetic form :)
"Endlessness enfleshed in emerald & frost & shades I couldn’t" - Joshua Bennett; Trash... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-638e1e1549224
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Incredible family history journey in poetic form :)
"Endlessness enfleshed in emerald & frost & shades I couldn’t" - Joshua Bennett; Trash... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-638e1e1549224
"Trash"-A very ingenious poem!
"From low to high doth dissolution climb,". "Mutability" by William Wordsworth
https://poets.org/poem/mutability-0
Wonderful poem: "which royally did wear / His crown of weeds" :)
"Garbage trucks" - William J. Harris; City Pastoral... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe.../city-pastoral
Can relate to the "City Pastoral..." only the trucks come late in the night.
"He was a big man, says the size of his shoes''. "Abandoned Farmhouse" by Ted Kooser
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/abandoned-farmhouse/
A sad, sad poem that makes one want answers... an interesting tension :)
"I Lost My Talk" - Rita Joe; I lost my talk... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/i-lost-my-talk
Impressive poem about silencing female Indian voice.
"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
Incredible poem :)
"Kind solace in a dying hour!" - Edgar Allan Poe; Tamerlane... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...tamerlane-1745
"Tamerlane.." How passionate!
"Let them not say: we did not see it."."Let Them Not Say" by Jane Hirshfield
https://poets.org/poem/let-them-not-say
Incredible poem - I used it to recite for my poem by another poet last Thursday :)
"My sister, my child" - Charles Baudelaire; Invitation To The Voyage... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-ba...-to-the-voyage
"Invitation To The Voyage..."An unusual poem as coming from Baudelaire. Enjoyed!
A bit out of season:
"New Year’s morning—". "After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa by Robert Hass
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a...obayashi-issa/
Wonderful haikus :)
"October's leaf was sere" - Nora Pembroke; Tecumthe ... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/tecumthe
I found some historical background to Nora Pembroke`s poem:
"Tecumseh (/tɪˈkʌmsə, -si/ tih-KUM-sə, -see; c. 1768 – October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and promoting intertribal unity. Even though his efforts to unite Native Americans ended with his death in the War of 1812, he became an iconic folk hero in American, Indigenous, and Canadian popular history."
About the war of 1812:
"In 1805, Tecumseh's younger brother Tenskwatawa, who came to be known as the Shawnee Prophet, founded a religious movement that called upon Native Americans to reject European influences and return to a more traditional lifestyle. In 1808, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa established Prophetstown, a village in present-day Indiana, that grew into a large, multi-tribal community. Tecumseh traveled constantly, spreading the Prophet's message and eclipsing his brother in prominence. Tecumseh proclaimed that Native Americans owned their lands in common and urged tribes not to cede more territory unless all agreed. His message alarmed American leaders as well as Native leaders who sought accommodation with the United States. In 1811, when Tecumseh was in the South recruiting allies, Americans under William Henry Harrison defeated Tenskwatawa at the Battle of Tippecanoe and destroyed Prophetstown.
In the War of 1812, Tecumseh joined his cause with the British, recruited warriors, and helped capture Detroit in August 1812. The following year he led an unsuccessful campaign against the United States in Ohio and Indiana. When U.S. naval forces took control of Lake Erie in 1813, Tecumseh reluctantly retreated with the British into Upper Canada, where American forces engaged them at the Battle of the Thames on October 5, 1813, in which Tecumseh was killed. His death caused his confederacy to collapse. The lands he had fought to defend were eventually ceded to the U.S. government. His legacy as one of the most celebrated Native Americans in history grew in the years after his death, although details of his life have often been obscured by mythology."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh
"Pale amber sunlight falls across". "Autumnal" by Ernest Christopher Dowson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...autumnal-14246
Thanks for the citation and link... an incredible account of Tecumseh and his struggles for an Indian Nation.
Wonderful Autumn poem... ours has started with a longed for mildness :)
"Quarantine, necessary," - Emmorrison; Quarantine... https://www.poetry.com/poem/105336/quarantine
"Quarantine...". To the point. And congrats for finding a "Q" poem.
"Remember the sky that you were born under,"."Remember" by Joy Harjo
https://poets.org/poem/remember-0
Enjoyed this anaphora poem by Joy Harjo :)
"Someone embraces me" - Vasko Popa; In The Village Of My Ancestors... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22629
"In The Village Of My Ancestors...", great poem!
"The hand that signed the paper felled a city;"."The Hand that Signed the Paper" by Dylan Thomas
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-30882
"Hands have no tears to flow." nor have a conscious :( Enjoyed :)
"Unslept hours--long and weary visit me" - Eliseo Guerrero Cervantes; Quod... https://www.poetry.com/poem/82517/quod
"Quod...".Ai!
"Rain and rain! and rain and rain!". "We To Sigh Instead Of Sing" by James Whitcomb Riley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-of-sing-29404
Lovely poem :)
"Sadly, O, sadly, the sweet bells of Baddeley" - Walter De La Mare; Sadly, O, Sadly... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-o-sadly-33306
Ditto!
"To fish from a cloud in the sky"."Cloud Fishing" by Phillis Levin
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/cloud-fishing/
Very imaginative... Enjoyed ! :)
"Understanding displacement" - Will Alexander; Living Detritus... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...iving-detritus
Living Detritus.Very experimental and original.
"Vogelweid the Minnesinger,".Walter Von Der Vogelweid by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ogelweid-24153
Wonderful poem... until the birds were ignored.
"Why Brownlee left, and where he went," - Paul Muldoon; Why Brownlee Left... https://www.poetrycat.com/paul-muldo...-brownlee-left
Why Brownlee Left... Perplexing poem
A poem by Yu Xiuhua
"In Autumn
like I wanted, autumn bites me
and then gives me a long time: watches my wound swell, fester, heal
It says: “a commoner like you deserves a little pain,
deserves this slow, cultured agony” and
hands it over to the fallen leaves
in a nation where the red moon never sinks
some people swaddle daybreak in tattered clothes
bury the harvest deep in the ground to forget
they assemble in the streets
discuss unissued national laws
the arches of their feet, too, have wounds
blood flows from every street toward the People’s Square
the autumn wind has blown across their cheeks
those loved ones long separated from me—
I am afraid to recognize them"
https://clt.oucreate.com/poems/twelve-poems/
re: Brownlee - I agree...
Enjoyed :) An insight into Yu:
• https://abilitymagazine.com/poetic-d...ion-yu-xiuhua/
• https://theasiadialogue.com/2017/12/...ife-by-poetry/
• https://www.shs-conferences.org/arti...2023_03004.pdf
"Your birth was the blessing of trillion stars" -
DEEPAK KUMAR PATTANAYAK; How Could You Know How You Came Here... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/how-...you-came-here/
re: Yu Xiuhua-What an extraordinary life story!Thanks for the links. It explains why there is so much reference to pain and difficulties in her poetry. I put her up in the other forum too, where they are always seeking new candidates for the Literature Noble. I think she would be a very worthy candidate.
"How Could You Know How You Came Here..."-Beautiful but immensely sad!
A poem in zejel form:https://areadingwritr.wordpress.com/...y-from-a-to-z/
Super Powers
Are all super powers something
about which we would brag and sing?
Or would many more likely sting?
Sure, some would be able to fly
And others detect every lie.
But somewhere a hopeful young guy
only bends like a chicken wing.
And a woman afraid of heights
Cannot see far distant sights
Or fight like a long ago knights,
But flies like a bird on the wing.
https://suebe.wordpress.com/2019/07/...try-the-zejel/
Enjoyed !
Cool !
"Away up on the River aux Lievres," - Nora Pembroke; A Legend Of Buckingham Village.... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembr...ingham-villageQuote:
Zéjel is a romantic Spanish form with Arabic influence related to the Qasida and adopted by the Spanish troubadours of 15th century.
Zéjel are:
syllabic, most often written in 8 syllable lines.
stanzaic, opening with a mono-rhymed triplet followed by any number of quatrains.
rhymed, the rhyme of the opening mudanza establishes a linking rhyme with the end line of the succeeding quatrains. Rhyme scheme, aaa bbba ddda etc
Chilling legend. Enjoyed!
"Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,"."Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen
https://poets.org/poem/dulce-et-decorum-est
Tragic poem... had an English great?-uncle who fought in WWI who was gassed and actually made it home before it finally took him.
"Comrades, if I don't live to see the day" - Nazim Hikmet Last Will And Testament... https://www.poetrycat.com/nazim-hikm...-and-testament
"Last Will And Testament..." A sad, intense poem about war and destruction.
"Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,". "The Weary Blues" Langston Hughes
https://poets.org/poem/weary-blues
Wonderful poem :)
"early morning. down to the shore again" - Ovid; Beach Body... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...716/beach-body
"Beach Body... "amazing work on an Ovid poem. Read the accompanying note.
"For this you may see no need,"An Anthology of Rain" by Phillis Levin
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...hology-of-rain
Enjoyed :)
"Generally Speaking:"- Crisosto Apache; 37 Common Characteristi(x)s of a Displaced Indian with a Learning Disability... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ing-disability
"Generally Speaking:"- Terribly good poem!Nothing else needs to be said.
"Huffy Henry hid the day,"."Dream Song 1" by John Berryman
https://poets.org/poem/dream-song-1
A bit stilted but it works well... enjoyed :)
"I carved your name on my watchband" - Nazim Hikmet; Letters From A Man In Solitary... https://www.poetrycat.com/nazim-hikm...an-in-solitary
"Letters From A Man In Solitary... "Beautiful and terrible!
Found some background:
"Nazim Hikmet’s “Letters From A Man In Solitary”
Prison ruin in Turkey
Nazim Hikmet was a Turkish poet, novelist, and playwright whose poems are considered to be some of the most powerful statements of the twentieth century. After serving several shorter prison terms, Hikmet was finally sentenced, in 1938, to twenty-eight years in Bursa Prison for his “Communist writings,” a verdict handed down not through the regular Turkish civil courts (who didn’t have the grounds to convict him) but through secret proceedings in the National Security Courts (a strange parallel to our current military courts for enemy combatants). In 1950, Hikmet was released early due to worldwide pressure and the announcement he would receive an International Peace Prize (along with painter Pablo Picasso and Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda). Hikmet fled into exile after 12 years “inside” and settled in Moscow, where he died in 1963.
…outside, with all its machinery and all its art,
a plains night comes down red on treeless space.
“Letters From A Man In Solitary” was written in 1938, the year Hikmet was sentenced to prison. The poem consists of three “letters” that Hikmet wrote to his wife, the only way Hikmet was able to send his poems to the outside world. Small things — the sun, his window, the sound of his own voice — take on large meanings in the small world from which he writes. Also, Hikmet’s language and surprising turns of tone and mood create moving portraits of a man who struggled most of his life to remain heard.
https://20thcenturyprotestpoetry.wor...n-in-solitary/
"Jocko the Monkey, Mouser - his chum, the Cat,"."The Monkey And The Cat by Jean de La Fontaine
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-the-cat-21901
Nazim - Such a life struggle: "Small things — the sun, his window, the sound of his own voice — take on large meanings in the small world from which he writes." Thanx for the background :)
"The Monkey And The Cat" - lol poem... another parable of never following the advice of a monkey :)
"Kate! if e'er thy light foot lingers" - Charles Stuart; Evening... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com.../evening-38128
"Evening..." Chaming and subtle!
"Life is short, though I keep this from my". "Good Bones by Maggie Smith
https://poets.org/poet/maggie-smith
A mother's burden with a lasting hope. :)
"My father kept a speckled conch" - Sylvia Plath; On the Decline of Oracles... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ine-of-oracles
"But I, I keep the voices he
Set in my ear, and in my eye
The sight of those blue, unseen waves" Beautiful poem!
"Nothing can ever happen twice."."Nothing Twice" by Wislawa Szymborska
https://poets.org/poem/nothing-twice