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Hope you are all well. Californian taifun was in the news yesterday!
Sad poem. Interesting the inversion between cat and wife.
"Earth, round, rolling, compact--suns, moons, animals--all". Carol Of Word by Walt Whitman
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...l-of-words-832
Thanx, I am well. Quite a wind and rain event with just a smattering of lightning - no closer than 4-seconds (less than a mile, more than a kilometer) away. Local flooding but ok here. I think we have a break today (Friday) from the rain so we can assess the damage later.
Interesting, albeit ponderous poem. I enjoyed this line: "This is a poem--a carol of words--these are hints of meanings,", which summed it up for me.
"From hill to hill I roam, from thought to thought," - Francesco Petrarca; Canzone XVII. Di pensier in pensier, di monte in monte. / Distance and Solitude... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-...a/canzone-xvii
Well, Petrarca is Petrarca. I still hope to be able sometime to read him in Italian.
"Gentle angel with your mantle," The Apparition by Duncan Campbell Scott
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...parition-30742
Liked this poem, and the rhyme scheme suited it :)
"How does the genius make itself known? In the way that in nature" - Friedrich Schiller; Geniality.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...eniality-30593
Enjoyed Geniality!
"I started Early – Took my Dog" –I started Early – Took my Dog – by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ook-my-dog-656
Incredible poem :)
"Just when the gentle hand of spring" - Abram Joseph Ryan;
To Mr. and Mrs. A. M. T.... https://www.poetrycat.com/abram-jose...-and-mrs-a-m-t
Loved this poem. A good read for rainy weather.
"Knit, knit, knit, knit!" The Three Little Kittens by Clara Doty Bates
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-kittens-12803
Such a sweet poem: ""Miew, miew, miew, / Miew, miew, miew!"
"Lights of unknown desire," - Dr Kamran Haider Bukhari; Who Will Bell The Cat?... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/who-will-bell-the-cat/
Looked up the expression "To bell the cat". A very opportune poem.
"Many roses in the wind" Love Storm by D. H. Lawrence
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ve-storm-22873
I agree.
Interesting poem... can not quite fathom the underlying tension.
"Not all the streams that water the bright earth," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet CXVI. Non Tesin, Po, Varo, Arno, Adige e Tebro. / He Extols the Laural and Its Favourite Stream....
https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-...ca/sonnet-cxvi
Re: Love Storm-You are right. I thought of a young person dying, maybe a daughter, because it´s an ongoing situation
Noble Sonnet CXVI!
"Oh moon, who now look over the roof". Verses to the Moon by Luis Carlos López translated by William George Williams
https://poets.org/poem/verses-moon
Love the last stanza which included the word 'neurasthenic'. Noted the translator was the Father of William Carlos Williams :)
"Pale, at its ghastly noon," - Friedrich Schiller; A Funeral Fantasie.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...fantasie-30700
"A Funeral Fantasie"- Powerfull and so very German in it´s intense contrasts.
"Queer are the ways of a man I know:" The Phantom Horsewoman by Thomas Hardy
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...rsewoman-17489
Enjoyed this poem; found an analysis... https://poemanalysis.com/thomas-hard...om-horsewoman/
It entered my mind that the "woman" might have been a figurehead perhaps of a sailing ship, though no evidence is given... just a passing thought.
"Rehearsal to Ourselves" - Emily Dickinson; Rehearsal to Ourselves... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogs...s-macbeth.html
Thanks for the analysis, tailor! You may be right, as the man was somehow staring at the sea.
"Rehearsal to Ourselves" a criptic poem.
"Say, where is now that glorious race, where now are the singers" The Bards Of Olden Time by Friedrich von Schiller
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ler/poems/7615