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Wonderful poem: "Why do we treat the fleeting day / with so much needless fear and sorrow? / It's in its nature not to stay: / Today is always gone tomorrow." :)
"O friends, I cannot comfort, but will share with you your grieving," - Nora Pembroke; Weep With Those Who Weep... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembr...those-who-weep
"Weep With Those Who Weep...". So sad!
"PAVEMENT slip'ry; People sneezing ;"."January, 1795" by Mary Robinson.
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw326.html
Wonderful history lesson for JANUARY, 1795 :)
"Quietly running through the house" - Trisha; Quiet... https://www.poetry.com/poem/116725/quiet
"Quiet"- Interesting poem starting with "Q"
"Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,".Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) from "In Memoriam A.H.H"- 106
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw383.html
A wonderful tintinnabulous poem if I ever read one :)
"Stasis in darkness." - Sylvia Plath; Ariel... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49001/ariel
Found this analysis to help understanding the poem. Ariel was the name of Sylvia Platt´s horse.
https://poemanalysis.com/sylvia-plat...o%20a%20charge.
"The wind is blue."."My Friend, Her Grandson" Pia Täavila-Borsheim
https://poets.org/poem/my-friend-her-grandson
Thanx for the analysis :)
Pia - Interesting to add planes, sharks, and jets on an otherwise nice trip to the beach.
"Upon Dionysus the tyrant" - Friedrich Schiller; Die Bürgschaft (The Pledge)... https://www.thechainedmuse.com/post/...drich-schiller
re: Maybe "planes, sharks, and jets" are just the point.
I didn´t find any analysis, but here is this short comment about this poem by the author herself:
“This poem was written several years after the grandmother figure had passed away. She had been my best friend and sharpest-eyed literary critic for more than fifty years. It was a day during which such contrasting yet mostly harmonious seascapes were present: the lasting dunes, the wind, the water. And the young boy . . . where did he fit within the landscape? What would his future hold? This poem is also my prayer that he will not be swept into the violence of the military apparatus, represented by the planes overhead. He is now in middle school. I have great hope for him.”
—Pia Täavila-Borsheim
https://poets.org/poem/my-friend-her-grandson
:) "The Pledge" is one of the most famous and one of my favorite poems by Schiller!
"Verse-making was least of my virtues: I viewed with despair"."Verse-Making Was Least Of My Virtues" by Robert Browning
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...y-virtues-6810
Ah. :)
Enjoyed Browning's comparison poem :)
"Wrong solitude vinegars the soul," - Jane Hirshfield; Vinegar and Oil... https://poets.org/poem/vinegar-and-oil
Interesting comparison poem "Vinegar and Oil..". Isn't there something in the Bible about vinegar and oil?
Poem title starting with "X" ;)
" 'Devil's share' is the portion of one's goods that cannot be usefully". "X. Dance of the Western Union Envelope How the Heart Leaps Up More Eager Than Plant or Beast by Anne Carson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...plant-or-beast
Try again :)
"Vinegar and Oil Bible"... https://www.shakespeareandcompany.co...-and-oil-bible
re: NT Bible... https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.c...negar-to-drink ... so it wasn't vinegar and oil given to our Savior... however when He was at Gethsemane, the olive garden overlooking Jerusalem, he sweat great drops of blood, like the first pressings of olives, while in supplication to Heavenly Father. There may be other references that I'm not aware of... More research ! :)
Such a sad poignant poem by Ann Carson. Enjoyed :)
"Ye who in rhymes dispersed the echoes hear" - Francesco Petrarca; To Laura In Life. Sonnet I. Voi, ch' ascoltate in rime sparse il suono. / He Confesses the Vanity of His Passion.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-...-life-sonnet-i
Bravo, you overcame the instability! I saw your earlier entry of the post above in "two words poem". Should it ever become too difficult, leave it there and I will try to transfer it, when on PC. Thanks for the research on vinegar and oil.
From the three translations of Petrarca's sonnet 1 I prefer the first by Charlemont.
"Zed"."Zed zou aze z zast of z lezzers" by Miroslava Odalovic
https://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=462663
Whimsical Z poem :)
"All paths lead to you" - Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff; All Paths Lead To You - Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff... https://allpoetry.com/All-Paths-Lead-To-You
All Paths Lead To You- Beauty and Simplicity
"Between Hanoi and Sapa there are clean slabs of rice fields". "Rootless" by Jenny Xie.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-64bff09e9cf33
Enjoyed Rootless' light whimsical tone :)
"Clownlike, happiest on your hands," - Sylvia Plath; You're... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49010/youre
"You´re" weird images. Enjoyed.
"Dare you see a soul at the white heat?"."The White Heat" by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ite-heat-13627
Incredible poem about the refiner's fire by my distant cousin :)
"Even in dreams, your father is working," - ESTEBAN RODRÍGUEZ; 37 El Mundo... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...82/37-el-mundo
"37 El Mundo... "-Interesting poem illustrating the saying "To carry the world on ones back".
"Fairy tales are full of impossible tasks:". "Fairy-tale Logic" by A.E. Stallings
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/fairy-tale-logic/
"Marry a monster. Hand over your firstborn son." ... lol; enjoyed :)
A bit long:
"Great joy in Madra. Blow the shell" - Toru Dutt; Savitri. Part II.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-part-ii-15151
Sad poem, beautiful descriptions. Maybe to many hermits in it.
"how the blood it fit into the body? how the body it fit".questions arabic asked in english (colonial fit)" by Noor ('DITEE) Jaber"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...h-colonial-fit
Very poignant and evocative sad poem...
"I shall never get you put together entirely," - Sylvia Plath; The Colossus... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...9/the-colossus
"The Colossus...".Interesting poem. Enjoyed Sylvia Plath´s dark humour.
"Jacob Lawrence"."The Beauty of Bareness by WILLIAM J. HARRIS
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ty-of-bareness
Enjoyed :)
Found this page with regards to your poem offering: https://www.culturalfront.org/2022/0...ence-john.html
"Know by the thread of music woven through" - Emily Pauline Johnson; Autumn's Orchestra... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...rchestra-21441
re : Thanks for this site, tailor. I like this kind of pictures. And they're very illustrative of the poem.
Loved Autumn Orchestra", this poem
organized like a concert and inscribed to "one beyond the seas".
"L" comes tomorrow.
Long but grandiose:
"Let us go then, you and I,".The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot
https://poets.org/poem/love-song-j-alfred-prufrock
Epigraph translation: from Dante's Inferno
“If I but thought that my response were made
to one perhaps returning to the world,
this tongue of flame would cease to flicker.
But since, up from these depths, no one has yet
returned alive, if what I hear is true,
I answer without fear of being shamed.”
Enjoyed :) "Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" Eliot reads his poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAO3QTU4PzY
"My voice rings out, this time, from Damascus" - Nizar Qabbani; Damascus, What Are You Doing to Me?... https://www.poetrycat.com/nizar-qabb...ou-doing-to-me
Loved the translation of the epigraph.
As for the rendering, in spite of it being the author himself(and what an author!), I found it a bit monotonous.
"Damascus",- an all life poem! Wonderful! Put it up in "The Universal Poetry Thread" I opened on another forum.
"Nothing can ever happen twice.". "Nothing Twice" by Wislawa Szymborska
https://poets.org/poem/nothing-twice
Delightful poem :)
"On a motorcycle moonstruck" - Troy Osaki; Places Our People Are Martyred for the Last Time... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-the-last-time
Liked this hard poem suggesting genocide by enumerating typical, all pacific situations where his people could be found.
"Pale amber sunlight falls across". "Autumnal" by Ernest Christopher Dowson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...autumnal-14246
Wonderful poem and good timing for the Northern hemisphere :)
"quotes of teachers from the past" - Alana Sahli; Quotes... https://www.poetry.com/poem/82524/quotes
A pessimistic poem but your talent for finding "Q" poems remains unsurpassed.
"Rain is falling through the roof."After Us" by Connie Wanek
https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-...-024/after-us/
"The sky is the color of gravestones." A description that evokes hopelessness... a poem that provokes pause... enjoyed.
"Stalemated their armies stood, with tottering banners:" - Sylvia Plath; The Snowman on the Moor... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ontentId=27374
re "After Us":agree.
"The Snowman on the Moor..." Very original images, looks like scenes from a stormy marriage.
"To fling my arms wide"."Dream Variations" by Langston Hughes
https://poets.org/poem/dream-variations
Beautiful poem :)
"Unquiet and restless he was" -DEEPAK KUMAR PATTANAYAK; Bounty of giving... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bounty-of-giving/
Bounty of giving...-Curious to know who was the subject of this poem but did not find any background.
"Vast and mysterious brother, ere was yet of me". "Tree-Worship" - (To John Lane) by Richard Le Gallienne
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ohn-lane-23612
Delightful poem of trees, etc. :)
"Which eye s his eye?" - Elizabeth Bishop; The Gentleman of Shalott... https://genius.com/Elizabeth-bishop-...lott-annotated
Lol! Surprising poem! Enjoyed!
Poem by Zheng Xiaoqiong (surname starting with "X".
铁鸟 / Iron Bird
Time is like a grey iron bird fluttering against the window,
Moonlight treading on distant memories saunters into my room.
Mysterious reticent frost scatters, white seeds covering the ground
Have grown into tranquil trees, standing in the North,
Their leaves falling. I am in the South, looking into the distance, those happy times
Restored in dreams. The iron bird disappears into silence.
Those made-up faces flash past in-between the trees in the North,
Those imaginary loves of mine, each resembles
A grey iron bird, flapping its wings.
(Collected Poems by Zheng Xiaoqiong, Huacheng chuben she, 2008, 30.)
https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poe...-zhou-xiaojing
An enigmatic poem for me. I found this re: bird symbolism in Chinese poetry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_...nese_mythology ... also noted the connection of "iron bird" to Tibet which I can not reconcile in this poem.
"You are young, and I am older;" - Abraham Lincoln; untitled?... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw125.html
re "Iron Bird". Thanks for the link. I thought of the rather obvious metaphor "iron bird" ="plane" but it doesn´t seem to fit the poem. Also found the connection with Tibet, https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-r...he-dalai-lama/, but can´t see any connection to the poem.
Charming Lincoln poem!
"O, my country, my country!"."Zaza, The Female Slave" added by "Poetry Lover"
https://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=345850