Lol! Unbelivable! Poor letter "U".
"Vanish, dark clouds on high,". "Chorus Of Spirits" (Faust)by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-spirits-16817
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Lol! Unbelivable! Poor letter "U".
"Vanish, dark clouds on high,". "Chorus Of Spirits" (Faust)by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-spirits-16817
Beautiful moving poem by JWvG :)
"We waited for him, and the anxious days" - Nora Pembroke; Alas, My Brother!... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/alas-my-brother
"Alas, My Brother!..." Again a very sad poem. Nora Penbroke (pseudonym of Margaret Dixon McDougall) is an Irish poet from 19 C. Her Bio in Wikipedia is very scant, no mention of personal losses is made.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Dixon_McDougall
"Xenophobia"."Xenophobia" by DM W.
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/xenophobia-14/
Enjoyed "Xenophobia" :)
"Yes I matter" - Deepak Kumar Pattanayak; Riddle Poem-3... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/riddle-poem-3/
"Yes I matter" - Interesting riddle poem.
Zombie Cowboy Haiku
by Stan Swanson
"Zombie cowboy dance
In herky-jerky motion
Howling at the moon."
https://www.authorsden.com/visit/vie...AuthorID=66387
Lol haiku ! Enjoyed :)
"Ah, in the night, all music haunts me here...." - Vachel Lindsay; The Amaranth... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...amaranth-23974
"Though it may not b/ Just as I dream, it comes at last I know" "The Amaranth..." Enjoyed.
"Blue-white afternoon. The Bow river churns and smokes". "Walking with Walt Whitman Through Calgary's Eastside on a Winter Day"
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/...ide-winter-day
Bitter sweet poem of the present age and thoughts not acted upon and life goes on.
"Come, ho! sing, ho! ye chimney sprites," - Mary Mapes Dodge; A Song Of Saint Nicholas... https://www.litscape.com/author/Mary..._Nicholas.html
Charming St. Nicholas poem!
"Beneath the softly falling snow"."The Changing Road" by Katharine Lee Bates
https://www.litscape.com/author/Kath...ging_Road.html
An enchanting poem... "The river will be locked in hush / But frosted like a fairy lawn / With knots of crystal flowers that flush / By moonlight, blanching in the dawn."... :)
"Come, Summer, come, nor in the south delay;" - W. M. MacKeracher; Invocation To Summer... https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=2602
"Invocation To Summer..." Very opportune poem by the high "Spring" temperatures we are having here. if I were a solid poet I would write its complement: "Go, Summer go, not in the south delay;"
"Dance to the beat of the rain, little Fern,"."Fern Song" by John Banister Tabb
https://www.litscape.com/author/John...Fern_Song.html
Simply wonderful little poem :)
"Eve must have wept to leave her flowers," - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; Eve's Flowers... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-flowers-16464
Nice flower poem
"Facing west, from California's shores"."Facing west, from California's shores" by Walt Whitman
From public domain Some problem with copying the link.
“Facing west, from California's shores” - Facing West From California's Shores by Walt Whitman https://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1891/poems/43 - " Facing west from California's shores, / Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound, / I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, / the land of migrations, look afar," :) :) :)
"God speaks to the soul" - Mechthild of Magdeburg; God Speaks to the Soul... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ks-to-the-soul
... Bio - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...d-of-magdeburg
re:Thanks for the link on “Facing west, from California's shores”. Copy/paste on tablet with the finger sometimes doesn't work.
Thank you so much for the poem and bio on Mechthild von Magdeburg :):) :).It´s one of your great finds. Lapidar simplicity and one the same time she writes like someone who has a direct communication channel to God, which she had. I looked for the poem in German, but didn´t find this particular one. It shows again how most German women authors were ignored, some until the 20C.
"Ha! whare ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie!"."To A Louse, On Seeing One In A Lady's Bonnet, At Church" by Robert Burns
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...at-church-9937
Lol dialectic poem :)
"I am a miner. The light burns blue." - Sylvia Plath; Nick and the Candlestick... https://www.mahmag.org/english/world...php?itemid=409
Nick and the Candlestick. Powerful images. Found this helpful analysis:https://www.belrosetutoring.com/hsc-...he-candlestick.
"Jes' a little bit o' feller - I remember still -".Who Santy-Claus Wuz by James Whitcomb Riley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...laus-wuz-29437
Enjoyed the analysis :)
Now this dialect poem was difficult for me, evidentially by design -
a poem by the "Hoosier Poet": "Who Santy-Claus Wuz" is one of Riley's “low readability” poems per a paper "The Difficulty of Dialect Poetry"...
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/oa_monograph/chapter/897050 page 13
"Kind friend, you do not know how much" - Hattie Howard; The Little Clock... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8614483-T...-Hattie-Howard
Oh sorry, didn´t want to choose a difficult poem, specially not at this time of year when the head is occupied with other things. What happens with me is that today because of poems and all I am more used to reading English dialect than even German (original poems from Mechthild from Magdeburg are in medieval German- beautiful but difficult to understand)Love Planted A Rose
by Katharine Lee Bates and I liked the general idea of the poem. Your ingenious defense is accepted and going to be read after Christmas.
Loved "The Little Clock.."
"Ah, well! the little clock has proved
The best of all bonanzas;
And thus my happy heart is moved
To these effusive stanzas."
"Love planted a rose,". "Love Planted A Rose" by Katharine Lee Bates
https://www.litscape.com/author/Kath...ed_A_Rose.html
A merry Christmas party for you and your family!
Thank you so much, and to you and yours :)
"... And the world turned sweet." - sweet poem :)
"My palace of gold" - Shiraz Bautista; One Fragile Prayer... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/one-fragile-prayer/
Shiraz Bautista; One Fragile Prayer-Radical but identify often with these feelings of loss and being lost.
"Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring,".Sonnet On Hearing The Dies Irae Sung In The Sistine Chapel by Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...e-chapel-36211
I agree with Wilde... https://www.google.com/search?client...cogix3cwQ,st:0 Not in the Sistine Chapel but a wee bit frenetic for such a storied edifice.
"Oh, cabaret dancer, I know a dancer," - Vachel Lindsay; How A Little Girl Danced... https://allpoetry.com/How-A-Little-Girl-Danced
Thanks for this background research, tailor! I was even a bit in doubt if Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was THE Oscar Wilde with this serious poem. Good to know about the Irate Days as they seem to be back.
Beautiful poem: "I know a dancer, I know a dancer,/Who lifts us toward peace, from this earth that is vain".
"Passion sits on the skull". "Passion And The Skull" by Charles Baudelaire
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...the-skull-9031
A rather odd vision of bubbles... enjoyed :)
"Quick! we have but a second" - Thomas Moore; Quick! We Have But a Second... https://www.poetry.com/poem/36890/qu...e-but-a-second
Charming drinking song!"Quick! We Have But a Second..." Live and enjoy yourself while you can.
"Redbirds, redbirds,"."Redbirds by SaraTeasdale
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/...lame01.html#11
Wonderful poem! "Trailing stately round her bluffs / Where the poplars grow --" :)
"Since ere I left my native isle," - Nora Pembroke; To Isabel... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembr...abella-stewart
re "Redbirds": lol!
Beautiful poem!
"There is a thing in me that dreamed of trees,"."A Dream of Trees" by Mary Oliver
https://www.poetrycat.com/mary-oliver/a-dream-of-trees
"I would have time, I thought, and time to spare, / With only streams and birds for company. / To build out of my life a few wild stanzas. / And then it came to me, that so was death,"... Incredible ! :)
"Upon the shore, a mile or more" - Guy Wetmore Carryl; The Rude Rat And The Unostentatious Oyster... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...s-oyster-12874
"The Rude Rat And The Unostentatious Oyster" Lol! A charming poem, more fluid still with its internal rhymes.
"Voices out of the shade that cried,"."Flight" by Rupert Brooke
https://www.rupertbrooke.com/poems/1908-1911/flight/
Sad moving poem :)
"Walking through trees to cool my heat and pain," - Robert von Ranke Graves; Not Dead... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...not-dead-37802
This one too: sad and beautiful.
Poem with X in the title:
"Around Xmas time". "Xmas Wish" by Douglas Scotney
https://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369516
Timely poem, enjoyed especially S2 :)
"You are what you eat" - Deepak Kumar Pattanayak; Appetite... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/appetite-9/
Very interesting poem about eating habits. Enjoyed.
Two songs of a play with a title starting with "Z":
"A sunny shaft did I behold,"."Zapolya" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
https://verse.press/poem/songs-from-...-zapolya-19859
Enjoyed the first much better: "... Sweet bird, thou wert enchanted! // He sank, he rose, he twinkled, he trolled / Within that shaft of sunny mist; / His eyes of fire, his beak of gold, / All else of amethyst!" :)
"A beautiful form and a beautiful face," - Fannie Isabelle Sherrick; Two Pictures... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...pictures-31613
re: Me too.
"Two Pictures...". Meaningful. Unfortunately the number of hungry people has only increased.
"Beneath all this I’m carving a cathedral"."Cathedral of Salt" by Nick Flynn
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/cathedral-of-salt/
Enigmatic poem... enjoyed :) Found this:- https://therumpus.net/2015/07/10/my-...20this.”Quote:
Flynn is committed to facing hard realities and trying to explain what it is like to bear them, and he’s a good builder of metaphors that help us understand. In “Cathedral of Salt,” the speaker describes his work (a bit like the narrator of Kafka’s short story “The Burrow”) on a secret cathedral: “Beneath all this I’m carving a cathedral/of salt. I keep/the entrance hidden, no one seems to notice/the hours I’m missing . . .” A cathedral is a spiring structure, meant to be seen for miles around, to last through the ages. Flynn’s “Cathedral of Salt” on the other hand is both under everything visible and ephemeral—made of salt. It is a lonely place, meant for one. The narrator knows all this, but keeps working on it: Neither you
nor your soul is waiting for me at
the end of this, I know that now, the salt
nearly clear after I
chisel out the pews, the see-through
altar, the opaque
panes of glass that depict the stations of
our cross—Here is the day
we met, here is the day we remember we
met . . . The air down here
will kill us, some say, some wear paper
masks, some still imagine the air above the green
trees, thick with bees
building solitary nests out of petals. What’s
the name for that? Ineffable? The endless
white will blind you, some say . . .
These lines are sharply drawn, with enjambments that push us to keep reading. I can’t help but see “Cathedral of Salt” as reflecting Flynn’s ambivalence about poems: their artifice, their thin and papery beauty, how they can “kill” the particulars of real stories or at least disguise them, sometimes reverting to pastoral imaginings, creating “masks” of paper that hide the reality of “all this.” But the act of making is meaningful to the narrator; it is a way to depict “the stations of/our cross,” to make a fleeting monument to human feeling.
another of his poems:
"Children under, say, ten, shouldn't know" - Nick Flynn; Cartoon Physics, part 1... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/c...hysics-part-1/
re: A very interesting analysis, tailor! Fitting comparison with Kafka´s “The Burrow”, only there is in Kafka a paranoia a eternal watching of all entrances, which seems to me wholly absent in the poem.
"Physics, part 1.." Also an interesting reflection on the classical comics and films where the heroes survive unscated the most dangerous situations.
"Don't enter conversations "."How To Tell Your Mother There Will Be No Grandkids In Her Future"by Ira Sukrungruang
https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-...in-her-future/
Heart breaking poem... enjoyed :)
"Elfins of the Autumn night," - Madison Julius Cawein; There Are Fairies... https://internetpoem.com/madison-jul...-fairies-poem/
Enjoyed so much the elfin poem!
"Fly to the land of freedom"."Fly to the Land of Freedom" by Chitra Arun
https://internetpoem.com/chitra-arun...-freedom-poem/
Lovely, albeit, melancholy poem: "Wish you lead me to that distant land of absolute freedom sans shame and fear!"... enjoyed :)
"Green Tunisia, I have come to you as a lover" - Nizar Qabbani; A Damascene Moon... https://www.poetrycat.com/nizar-qabb...damascene-moon