Wow! Incredible poem :)
"Xola is your name so sweet," - Edward Kofi Louis; Xola... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=380792
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Wow! Incredible poem :)
"Xola is your name so sweet," - Edward Kofi Louis; Xola... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=380792
Enjoyed the poem. Astonished at each new "x" poem.
"You put on some new pants. I put"."You Think You Are Something Less Real Than You Are" by Wendy Xu
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2021/0...-wendy-xu/amp/
That was my last "x" poem...
Fanciful poem... I have no clue, lol... enjoyed :)
"Zimbabwe frightened you," - Gert Strydom; Zimbabwe frightened you... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=400458
re: We were already flexibilizing the rules. Suggestion: Poet with name starting with "X" or simply jumping to "y".
re Wendy Xu:A general (not long) survey:
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2017/04...ge-in-phrasis/
"A heart that’s been broken"."A Heart That’s Been Broken" by Maureen Owen
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...-maureen-owen/
re: We1... 'k
re: We2... now that makes sense, lol
Touching poem... enjoyed :)
"Beleaguered on all sides," - Captain Cur; Autumnal Equinox... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/autu...-weymouth-bay/
re We1 didn't understand...`k
Loved this sea poems :" view the world from these marvelous heights
where the hands of time lie still."
"Clear night, thumb-top of a moon, a back-lit sky."."Clear Night" by Charles Wright
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2018/0...es-wright/amp/
Sorry, 'k or k = ok.
Enjoyed Charles' poem: "I want to be stretched, like music wrung from a dropped seed." :)
"Darkness: the rain sluiced down; the mire was deep;" - Siegfried Sassoon; The Redeemer... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-redeemer/
Sasson, the great war poet, impressive. The poem reminded me of a German war song (lyrics translated):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1cKNcf1mpk.
"Even Eve, the only soul in all of time"."History" by Jennifer Michael Hecht
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...michael-hecht/
Somewhat somber but moving song... enjoyed :)
Hmmm... I might agree to disagree with the premise of the poem, but who am I ? The irony is that the owner of Read A Little Poetry's opening remarks lead in to the poem quite well. :)
"Fly swift, my light gazelle," - Thomas Moore; The Language Of Flowers... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/language-flowers-2
re "History"-I have to agree that the Eve of the poem is not very like the biblical Eve
Enjoyed the delicate poem!
"Glad tidings hath my Saviour brought"."WRITTEN ON EASTER DAY." by Mary Alcock
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....99-w0040.shtml
Inspired poem written on Easter... enjoyed :)
""Hurra! hurra!" I heard them say," - Thomas Moore; The Periwinkles And The Locusts. A Salmagundian Hymn... https://tercul.com/en/works/the-peri...nguage_code=en
"The Periwinkles And The Locusts." Much enjoyed! Very up to date, could have been written by Brazilian author Lima Barreto.
"It is portentous, and a thing of state"."Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight" by Vachel Lindsay
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a...s-at-midnight/
Lima Barreto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_Barreto... passed away so young; interesting writer. "Barreto adopted a more simple style in his books which was more accessible to a majority of the Brazilian people. This provoked an increasing number of criticisms against the author, who was persecuted by the Brazilian elite for his non-classical style."
"Lincoln": Enjoyed. Still up to date with the man of peace lamenting the current states of affairs.
"Joy comes and goes: hope ebbs and flows," - Matthew Arnold; To Fausta... https://www.poeticous.com/matthew-arnold/to-fausta
Was astonished to learn that LB has a Wikipedia page in 11 languages.
Enjoyed Arnold's poem: the internal rhyme in the first verse of each strophe seems to give the poem the form of ebbing and flowing waves. But the content is sad and the poet resigned.
"karenina"."karenina" by Regina Elliott
https://www.poetry.com/poem/159037/karenina
Enjoyed: "karenina, / in Luna's consoling / presence, / encourager, / steps lithe amidst / the stars. :)
"Lo! the wild rabbit, happy in the pride" - Ambrose Bierce; Aspiration... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/aspiration-14/
"Aspiration..." A wise poem! Enjoyed!
This is not an usual poem, but I enjoyed that:
"Man who is a serious novel would like to hear from a woman who is a poem’ (classified"."Exchange of Letters" by Wendy Cope
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2012/0...by-wendy-cope/
Lololol ! Love the prologue poem too which is in answer to Cope's poem; guessing whom "M" is is prolly "Man", or perhaps another ? :)
"No, not more welcome the fairy numbers" - Thomas Moore; No, Not More Welcome... https://kalliope.org/en/text/moore2000082963
T. seems to be the owner of the site, who maybe is also a poet. M? Man or?
Enjoyed Moore 's poem!
"oh antic God"."oh antic God" by Lucille Clifton
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/oh-antic-god/
Sweet poem. Enjoyed :)
"paper umbrellas" - Kobayashi Issa; paper umbrellas... http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...umbrellas.html
Sadly Poetry Atlas, which I used a lot lately, has ceased to exibit the poems to me about two weeks ago, alleging copyright. I tried to find the haiku elsewhere but wasn´t successful.
Poem by a poet with surname starting with "Q"(with analysis).
"When I love". "When I Love" by Nizar Qabbani
https://allpoetry.com/When-I-Love
"Issa’s original Japanese haiku are in the public domain, but not most modern English translations. " - Quora post... ROFL !!!!!!!!
Here's the original version and the website I found it on, if you can access it of course; if not maybe use google translation ?
.傘の雫ながらにかすみかな
karakasa no shizuku nagara ni kasumi kana
... http://haikuguy.com/issa/searchenglishjapanese2.php
Wonderful treatise on love... Enjoyed :)
"Repeat, O, Muse! the virtuous song" - Ann Batten Cristall; Repeat, O, Muse! ... https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....95-w0140.shtml
Thanks for the link, tailor!
Enjoyed the introductory poem!
"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,"."Funeral Blues" by W.H. Auden
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2005/1...w-h-auden/amp/
An elegy poem... found an analysis here: https://poemanalysis.com/w-h-auden/funeral-blues/ Enjoyed :)
"The screaming, hairy, armadillo" – Liz Brownlee; Hairy Screaming Armadillo... https://lizbrownleepoet.com/2015/04/...ra-armadillos/
Enjoyed the analysis. Didn´t know that the poem was so famous.
Aaaaaiiiiiiii! Enjoyed!
Here in Brazil we have a very small sort of armadillo or insect like armadillo, the pill bug (tatu bolinha). When I was a kid, we had them in the garden. If one pokes them, they roll instantly up into a ball to protect themselves.
https://www.google.com/search?q=tatu...t0exyMO_A,st:0
"Under an oak-tree in a".The Rue-Anemone by Madison Julius Cawein
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-julius-cawein
Lol, we called pill bugs Rollie Pollies :) Enjoyed the video... would love to be sitting in a creek right now.
Fanciful Poem... found it here: https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-anemone-11678...Enjoyed ! "Deep in the boscage, kneeling on one knee, / Watching the wandered Oread draw near, / Her wild heart beating like a honey-bee / Within a rose." :)
As an aside, 2-troublesome oaks, though mighty with shade!, were removed the other day from near my bedroom at my daughter's insistence... now my air conditioner can't keep up with the heat :(
"Vision of light, above triumphal car" - Margaret Steele Anderson; Beatrice... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...beatrice-37256
Sorry about the wrong link! - Your oaks probably represented danger. But it is sad: no shadow and it will take many years for new trees to grow.
Enjoyed this poem about Dante's Beatrice.
"Which is bigger,” he asks me, “the ocean or sky,”."Talking To My Son Before Sleep" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2012/0...a-trommer/amp/
"This is the way I want to love: in an idiom stronger / than tongues, I want to love in the way that tides pull / and release, like the moon which holds without touch,"... incredible poetry! :)
“If I were on fire" - Xiomara Batista/Elizabeth Acevedo; Things You Think About in the Split Second Your Notebook is Burning... https://archive.bookstr.com/article/...-poet-x-novel/
Enjoyed the dramatic questioning of the poem:"Things You Think About in the Split Second Your Notebook is Burning...".
"You do not have to be good."."Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2010/0...y-mary-oliver/
Enjoyed Mary's poem immensely :)
"Zenyatta..." - Lawrence S. Pertillar; Zenyatta
... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=447060
Loved this poem about a race horse with personality!
"Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations."."Flying at Night" by Ted Kooser
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2005/0...by-ted-kooser/
"Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies / like a snowflake falling on water. " Wonderful short poem :)
"Bursa Prison" - Nazim Hikmet; Letter To My Wife... https://www.poetrycat.com/nazim-hikm...ter-to-my-wife
"Letter to my wife".Wonderfully moving poem. A bit more about the poet,who had a very eventful life: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A2z%C4%B1m_Hikmet
"CLarissa blest with ev'ry Grace,"."THE RIVAL NYMPHS." A TALE .by Charlotte Lennox (née Ramsay)
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....47-w0020.shtml
Thanks for the wiki - Nazim Hikmet: Quite an accomplished poet... I remember Seeger's and The Byrds recordings of Where Have All the Flowers Gone fondly and have heard them often... had no clue of its origin :)
Ahhhhh, I need the sequel :) An interesting tragedy/comedy (I can't decide)... Enjoyed !
"Drunk with friends, unaware that it is almost dusk." - Li Bai; Amusing Myself... https://www.writtenchinese.com/five-...-translations/
Enjoyed this "drunken" nature drenched poem.
"Evening falls on the smoky walls,". "Ballad of the Londoner" by James Elroy Flecker
https://englishverse.com/poems/ballad_of_the_londoner
Cute poem... enjoyed :)
"Far away — far away —" - Edgar Allan Poe; The Valley Nis... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2008/0...gar-allan-poe/
""The Valley Nis". Beautiful poem!
"Green Buddhas"."Watermelons" by Charles Simic
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...les-simic/amp/
Wow ! What a minimalist gem !!! Loved it :)
"How happy and still is the earth" - Deepak Kumar Pattaanayak; How happy and still is the earth... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/how-happy-is-our-earth/
Impressive poem on the destruction of the planet.
"I ask them to take a poem"."Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2012/0...billy-collins/
A wonderful poem: "They begin beating it with a hose / to find out what it really means."... Lol, guilty sometimes. Enjoyed :)
""Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried," - Lewis Carroll; Fit the First: The Landing... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...e-landing-1332
Enjoyed the Lewis Carroll poem!
"King Cole he reigned in Aureoland"."King Cole" by George MacDonald
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ing-cole-25230