Bittersweet poem, "fostercareless" - enjoyed.
"No one has yet to live," - Lawrence S. Pertillar; Qualities We All Have... https://www.poetry.com/poem/99386/qualities-w
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Bittersweet poem, "fostercareless" - enjoyed.
"No one has yet to live," - Lawrence S. Pertillar; Qualities We All Have... https://www.poetry.com/poem/99386/qualities-w
"Qualities We All Have..." A very moral poem.
"Once and once again I am as I remember"."Once upon a Time: Surfside, Miami" by Richard Blanco
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...surfside-miami
Minus the palm trees, and the seaside :( , I go back in spirit. Enjoyed ! :)
"Panels of claret and blue which shine" - Amy Lowell; The Exeter Road... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ll/poems/20100
"The Exeter Road..." A wild tale. Enjoyed!
A poem by an author with "X" in her name
"A squirrel alone with his thoughts". "Afternoon Notes" by Wendy Xu
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...fternoon-notes
Enjoyed :) Interesting poem... sought a poem by the poet mentioned below her title:
"you can't get out of this valley" - Bei Dao; The Echo... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/....1984.10409851
I found out I skipped several letters in #1164. It should have been "Q". For organizations sake going on with "Z".
Interesting poem bei Bei Dao, sounds very modern. This is the first of his poems I read, thanks for the link, but in the Noble forum he is considered one of the greatest current poets.
"'Zero, zero and zero'"."Zero, Zero and Zero" by Hasmukh Amathalal
https://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=406941
A "z" poem ! Enjoyed. Did not even notice the skipping of letters :)
"As a friend to the children commend me the Yak." - Hilaire Belloc; The Yak... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46686/the-yak
Enjoyed The Yak... Red a bit in the biography of Hilaire Belloc who was a complex author in his time:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/hilaire-belloc
"Before the doctors stole his tonsils,"."Tonsillectomy" by Alexis Sears
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe.../tonsillectomy
Hilaire Belloc - yes, quite outspoken and controversial.
Tonsils - lol :)
"Can any one say what fun there is" - Mary Dow Brine; Grandpa and His "Dear"... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw229.html
Grandpa and His "Dear"- Enjoyed specially the final twist in the poem
"Delayed till she had ceased to know,"."Too Late." by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...too-late-13581
Perhaps one of Emily's puzzle poems... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogs...d-to-know.html but then other analyses like this one https://slowlander.com/2019/06/23/de...eased-to-know/ are more general. Enjoyed :)
"Each new day is a wonder…" - Gregory Huyette; Zest for Life... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401884
re: Thanks for the links, tailor to the poem by Emily Dickinson. I think both links complete each other. I didnīt know the poem was inspired by the character Cordelia od King Lear. I found this old version of the play for TV by two giants: director Peter Brook and Orson Welles as King Lear:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf-knQzfuM4
"First, grant me my sense of history:"."Postscript to 'Little Red Riding Hood'" by Agha Shahid Ali
https://poets.org/poem/wolfs-postscr...ed-riding-hood
1953 ! I'll watch the play in a little bit :)
Such a sad poem... enjoyed :)
"Growing up in a rural factory town I watched my creative family extend" - Caconrad; Introduction to (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...poetry-rituals
Enjoyed this Introduction to (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals... about how the factory background influences the writing of poetry of the author.
"Hold hard, these ancient minutes in the cuckoo's month,"."Hold Hard the Ancient Minutes", Dylan Thomas
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-30894
Enjoyed ! Found a few analyses: https://eliteskills.com/c/20607
As a weather poem it reminds me to note a storm approaching you on the morrow for a brief respite. Re: Links... never sure if my PMs ever get sent... Thank you! The third link has a segment by an author whom I've met and attended a wonderful poetry seminar, and have one of her books that is extremally dogeared from my perusing and notes: Susan Wooldridge :)
"Im a rock woman" - Anne Waldman; from Fast Speaking Woman, Part 1... https://poets.org/poem/fast-speaking-woman-part-1
" Re: Links... never sure if my PMs ever get sent... Thank you! The third link has a segment by an author whom I've met and attended a wonderful poetry seminar, and have one of her books that is extremally dogeared from my perusing and notes: Susan Wooldridge".
re: Sorry about yesterday. For the first time there was a virus in PC. PC was very slow which probably accounts for the many repetitions od the PM I sent you. Glad that you liked the poetry book.:)
re Dylan Thomas. The analyses were very helpful. I didnīt know that April was the cuckoo mount and that the bird is a symbol of the cycle of life and nature. I only feel they could have explored more the more sinister elements of the poem.
"Fast Speaking Woman, Part 1... " Enjoyed this minimalist poem that relies on repetition.
"Just above the boxes and where the high lights fall"."At The Play" by Virna Sheard(Of course you know whose face it is).
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...the-play-31222
At the Play - an enjoyable rendering of being at the play :)
"Know'st thou the land where the fair citron blows," - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Mignon... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...e/mignon-16603
"Know'st thou the land where the fair citron blows,". A favorite of mine this Song of Mignon.
"Little honey baby, shet yo' eyes up tight; -"A Southern Lullaby by Virna Sheard
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-lullaby-31228
:)
Awesome dialect poem: "Shadow man is comin' from de moon," albeit causing nightmares.
"my mother sacrificed her dreams" - Rupi Kaur; my mother sacrificed her dreams... https://www.stylist.co.uk/books/50-o...t-lines/124113
"my mother sacrificed her dreams" . Impressive quote, couldnīt find the complete poem though
"No one's serious at seventeen."."Novel" by Arthur Rimbaud
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/novel/
#148... https://www.studocu.com/en-us/docume...1-150/44312835 ... the poem is complete :)
Delightful poem... o, to be seventeen again :)
"Once I loved a spider" - Vachel Lindsay; The Spider And The Ghost Of The Fly... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-...st-of-the-fly/
re: "my mother sacrificed her dreams",thanks for the link, tailor.
"Once I loved a spider". I donīt think Vachel Lindsay was in his best days, when he wrote that. Anyway, one canīt deny the originality of the poem!
" Pa he bringed me here to stay". "A Christmas Memory" by James Whitcomb Riley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...s-memory-29262
Touching dialect poem... enjoyed :)
"Question everything; believe nothing" - Phil Roberts; QUESTION EVERYTHING!... https://www.booksie.com/posting/phil...nothing-179538
Fully agree with the maxims of QUESTION EVERYTHING!.... So necessary at a time of Fake News and ambushes.
"Rain will fall again". The Cats Will Know by Cesare Pavese (translated by Geoffrey Brock).
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...cats-will-know
Enjoyed; "The cats will know, / face of springtime; / and the light rain / and the hyacinth dawn"... a bit of analysis... https://paralleltexts.blog/2021/10/1...ats-will-know/
"Stars are dropping thick as stones into the twiggy" - Sylvia Plath; Stars Over the Dordogne... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ontentId=28954
re: "The cats will know,".Thanks for the link, tailor. What a love letter!Or better, two love letters, one in verse and one in prose. Iīll have a look if I can find more poems by him.
"Stars Over the Dordogne...". Enjoyed the poem about the orphan stars.
"To fling my arms wide"."Dream Variations" by Langston Hughes
https://poets.org/poem/dream-variations
re: Stars... found an analysis... https://poemanalysis.com/sylvia-plath/stars
re: Hughes - Simple poem at first glance, then more complex... https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/ed...eam-variations
"Upon the verge;" - Deepak Kumar Pattanayak; A bride... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-bride-5/
re: Enjoyed both analysis very much, specially the one about "Dream Variations".It occurred to me that flinging the arms about the body has also to do with they being unfettered.
"A Bride"- Enjoyed!
"Vill nobodies try my nice Annual Pill,"."The Annual Pill." by Thomas Moore
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ual-pill-27249
An lol dialect poem :)
"When his ship first came to Australia," - Jane Hirshfield; Global Warming... https://poets.org/poem/global-warming
Global Warming... Short and very much to the point. The reader has to made the connection between title and content.
A poem by an author with name starting with "X"."Chocolate" by Jinhao Xie
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/chocolate/
"A hurricane / found underneath your seat is your uncle’s / reckless driving technique." Enjoyed :)
"you no longer believe in anything" - Anne Waldman; Matriot Acts, Act I [History of Mankind]... https://poets.org/poem/matriot-acts-...istory-mankind
Anne Waldman; Matriot Acts, Act I -Will have to reread it to get a better idea.
"Zest of living one discovers"."Zest for life" by Ronald TirinoAnne Waldman; Matriot Acts, Act I [History of Mankind]..Anne Waldman; Matriot Acts, Act I [History of Mankind]..
https://www.poetry.com/poem/128873/zest-for-life
Zest:Enjoyed - "Hearts at rest deep in healing / within the time of now extending" :)
"Away, ye peacocks, with my winged car!" - Friedrich Schiller; Semele: In Two Scenes... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...o-scenes-30722
Just now I read Schillerīs short play. I had a selection of his works in three volumes, but never knew about this one. I didnīt compare it with the original but the translation flows well and reproduces Schillerīs highly dramatic style.
"Beneath all this I’m carving a cathedral". "Cathedral of Salt" by Nick Flynn
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/cathedral-of-salt/
Sad poem: "some still imagine the air above the green / trees, thick with bees"... enjoyed :)
"Carrying bouquet, and handkerchief, and gloves," - Charles Baudelaire; The Dance Of Death... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-ba...dance-of-death
"The Dance Of Death..." The description of the skeletons is so horrible that it is almost funny.
"Dad reads aloud. I follow his finger across the page.". "Happy Birthday Moon by RAYMOND ANTROBUS
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/happy-birthday-moon
Wonderful form and subject; light and touching... Enjoyed ! :)
"every time i read a poem and it s not about dashain" - Mansi Dahal; poem... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-62e80e4b08aac
"Poem".Very interesting poem,specially its questioning form. Still finding my way on my new tablet. I can't find my favorites so the new poem comes tomorrow.
"For this you may see no need,". "An Anthology of Rain" by Phillis Levin
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a...ology-of-rain/
I too have a new tablet :) underpowered for poetry creation though, so I'll leave that to the laptop.
Delightful poem! I was captivated by the title and it only got better :)
"Grim as gargoyles from years spent squatting at sea's border" - Silvia Plath; Dream with Clam-Diggers... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ontentId=27201
Tablet: A Samsung 12,4 big (birthday present). Have still to organize a line up for alphabetical poems. Then I will try to use it also in the evening with its two browsers.
"Dream with Clam-Diggers..." A good but dark poem.
"Here is where"."Corn Maze" by David Barber
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/corn-maze/