Such a sad poem :(
"At husking time the tassel fades" - Emily Pauline Johnson; At Husking Time... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ing-time-21380
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Such a sad poem :(
"At husking time the tassel fades" - Emily Pauline Johnson; At Husking Time... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ing-time-21380
Enjoyed: "At Husking Time..." Every one reaps...
"Birds chirping. Loud orchestral music. Music stops.".Screenplay by Harryette Mullen
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...871/screenplay
Interesting poem... enjoyable :) Found a (lengthy) in-depth interview about her poetry, and others of the black community, and so very much more: https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/author...interview.html
"cradle of the Black Madonna, oh" - Carolyn Marie Rodgers; Ethiopia... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...58576/ethiopia
Thanks for the interview, tailor. Just skimmed through it. It provides an insight into the creation possibilities and specially the difficulties of production of this community. I didn´t know she was a black author. Very similar to what happens here.
"Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a diving line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is in a constant state of transition, a fluid and improvisational space in which languages and identities hybridize and evolve."
Gloria Anzaldua( a member of the community, I think).
"Ethiopia.."Beautiful and terrible poem!
"De da'kest hour, dey allus say,". "Joggin' Erlong" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...n-erlong-14949
Sad, sad dialectical poem so well written.
"Every time I travel" - Yrsa Daley-Ward; Coordinates... https://turkishdelightedblog.wordpre...6/coordinates/
"Coordinates..." Charming and to the point:"Sometimes you have to leave all your cities
to fall in love".
"Friends have I in Bohemia three ". "My Friends In Bohemia" by James Edwin Campbell
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-5218
Lol ! :)
"Great forests you frighten me, like vast cathedrals:" - Charles Baudelaire; Obsession... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-baudelaire/obsession
"Obsession...". Great images with Baudelaire just being himself!
"Her skin never wrinkled"."Secret Anti-Aging Formula" by Jennifer Prado
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-aging-formula
Another gem :) We have a city in California near Stockton named Manteca... never knew it meant "butter" :)
"I have done it again." - Sylvia Plath; Lady Lazarus... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...0/lady-lazarus
re: Mantega in Portuguese. I think California and the larger region must at a time have been under Spanish occupation or populated by Spanish navigators given the profusion os Spanish names that have come to mix naturally with the English ones: El Dorado, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Nevada( snow storm) etc. I think this fascinating.
"Lady Lazarus..." Astonishing how the poem blends history and bodily subjectivity. And the idea of death seemed always to be very present in her poetry.
"Jesús José Medrano went away". "Villanelle" by Michael Luis Medrano
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...062/villanelle
re: California - yes... indigenous peoples came in waves sometimes supplanting each other, then the Spanish and Russians, then the gold miners' rush giving rise to conquest and statehood.
Incredible villanelle... a sad subject, but well done. Villanelles: I need more practice... terrible at them. We had a poet on LitNet once, Pen, I think, that crafted villanelles well with little effort.
"Kind friend, you do not know how much" - Hattie Howard; The Little Clock... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...le-clock-20864
re: Yes, I think that was Pendragon, he was still here when I registered.
Cute little clock:
"lusting and unafraid. In this bipedal incarnation"."In my next life let me be a tomato" by NATASHA RAO
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...me-be-a-tomato
Delightful and whimsical poem: "I want to be unabased, audacious, to gobble / space, to blush deeper each day in the sun" :)
"My reading is extremely deep and wide;" - Hilaire Belloc; Ballade of Modest Confession... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...est-confession
Lol!I looked for some analytical help to understand the poem and found AI in action:
https://keytopoetry.com/hilaire-bell...st-confession/
"No radio". "Radio" by Laurel Blossom
https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-...180-016/radio/
re: AI - yes, encounter this site every now and then... actually used the metre of a poem once to try a binary code translation to assist in a poem once (lol).
No Radio - Amusing/sad state of affairs when owning a vehicle, anywhere :(
"On shallow straw, in shadeless glass," - Philip Larkin; Take One Home For The Kiddies... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...in/poems/14588
"Take One Home For The Kiddies...". Realistic, but didn´t enjoy the content :(.
"OH, greenly and fair in the lands of the sun,"."The Pumpkin" by John Greenleaf Whittier.
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw209.html
"What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? / What calls back the past, like the rich Pumpkin pie?" Enjoyed :)
"Pomegranates fell from the trees" - Alison Hawthorne Deming; [i]Eve Revisited[i]... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/eve-revisited/
(Sorry, just saw that my last poem should have begun with "P". Getting on with "Q")
"Eve Revisited" -Very interesting take on the famous Bible episode. Enjoyed!
A poem, title starting with "Q"."QUALITY! short poem.by Shakil Ahmed Baliyavi
https://www.poetry.com/poem/82466/quality!-short-poem.
Simple deep poem :)
"Retired ballerinas on winter afternoons" - Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/r...ral-park-west/
"Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West..." Enjoyed the poem, its rhythm and internal alliterations. Reminds me of my one visit to Central Park, where a squirrel took delicately a nut out of my hand.
"Still turnstiles framed by a window "."Hither Come Hither" by Richard Greenfield
https://poets.org/poem/hither-come-hither
Enjoyed the odd format ; just when I thought it was over I'd scroll down and find more... and more... :) "The term Shinrin-yoku was coined by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries in 1982, and can be defined as making contact with and taking in the atmosphere of the forest."... Cool !!
I think to see the next whole poem one needs to > to the next page ?...
"Two girls there are:within the house" - Sylvia Plath; Two Sisters of Persephone... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ontentId=27203
re:"I think to see the next whole poem one needs to > to the next page ?..." I don´t know, lol!
I´m getting to know Sylvia Plath though these alphabetical poems you post. A very own way of expressing herself, but it seems that the idea of dead is always present in her poetry.
"Underwater, my lungs burn at the thought of". "Swim" by Edgar Morales
https://poets.org/poem/swim
Enjoyed the poem on swimming :)
"Very bright" - Afia Gyimah; Childhood Home... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/childhood-home-1/
Terrible poem but very good in transforming with economy of words its atmosphere.
"What does he plant who plants a tree?"."The Heart of the Tree" by Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855 –1896)
https://poets.org/poem/heart-tree
Wonderful poem!... have planted many trees :)
"Xystus in an ancient building" - Molly Shea; Xenia... https://henhouselady.com/2020/11/25/...-is-for-xenia/
Enjoyed this legit "X Poem" and the nano project of the blog. Disliked though the "Xenophobic tendencies in this spy’s heart", but at least the spy is honest.
"You would expect an uncountable number,"."The Bookshelf of the God of Infinite Space"by Jeffrey Skinner
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/t...nfinite-space/
Looking forward to that type of Library :)
"Z was once a piece of zinc," - Edward Lear; Alphabet Poem: Letter Z... https://www.dltk-teach.com/alphabudd...s/z/lear-z.htm
Z poem to the point!
"And God stepped out on space,". "The Creation" by James Weldon Johnson 1871 – 1938
https://poets.org/poem/creation
Enjoyed the creation poem :)
"Bubbling feet and slumbering eyes" - Deepak Kumar Pattanayak; The Lunatic... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-lunatic-haiku/
"The Lunatic..." Not so sure I understood that poem.
"Come in, Maxim!... This is Minsk"."Guest" by VALZHYNA MORT
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-64ad87734faa6
The Lunatic L1 - Best I can figure "eager feet while dreaming" ?
"Guest" - Found a short explanation... http://fivehundred-places.com/valzhy...t-translations
"Dear sir, your air of authority" - Jennifer Militello; Mansplaining... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/mansplaining/
re: The Lunatic Maybe. Anyway madness and moon seem to be closely related.
Thanks for the link on "Guest"
"Mansplaining." Lol! I probably saw that poem before and thought it a bit too much, although there is much truth in it.
"E'en as the bird, who midst the leafy bower". "The Divine Comedy by Dante: The Vision Of Paradise: Canto XXIII" by Dante Alighieri
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...to-xxiii-14174
Inspired poem... I need to read the cantos in full :)
"Farewell to thee, farewell my soul" - Eden Verse; Farewell... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/farewell-1/
"Farewell..." sad poem...
"Give up sitting dutifully at your desk. Leave"."Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out?" by Ron Koertge
https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-...-starting-out/
Enjoyed ! "Borrowed" this delightful ars poetica poem for our next Thursdays at Two poem group meeting to share in our poem by another poet segment :)
"Hungry for music with a desperate hunger" - Vachel Lindsay; Written For A Musician Poem... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/written-for-a-musician/
"Written For A Musician". Interesting contrast between the everyday scene and the escepcional moment.
"In the mornings the heart". From “Moonlight on Pine Trees” by Nirmal Verma
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-on-pine-trees
Delicate poem. I think S3 could have been translated better but I enjoyed it just the same :)
"Jack would laugh an' joke all day;" - Robert W. Service; The Lunger... https://www.explorenorth.com/library...ollstone21.htm
Enjoyed brave Jack´s saga!
"Know how you always buy that single can of lentil soup". "In Praise of the Classics" by Noah Eli Gordon
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...f-the-classics
Another soup metaphor poem... Enjoyed ! :)
"Letting the mind go," - Erica Jong; Zen & the Art of Poetry... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=389994
A very Zen Ars Poetica. Enjoyed!
"My son starts every conversation"."The Bearing Edge"by Ralph James Savarese. (The comment of the poet on his poem, on the right, is very enlightening.)
https://poets.org/poem/bearing-edge