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The affected beach towns are still very much on the allert, because the weather forecast announced more rain. About 4.000 people are homeless. Some of the people with houses in danger are getting back, because they donīt have anywhere else to go.
reuters.com/world/americas/death-toll-brazil-floods-landslides-reaches-54-2023-02-24/r
Loved The Warner
"Facing west, from California's shores," Facing West From California's Shores by Walt Whitman
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ias-shores-854
Sorry to hear re: floods, etc. :(
Enjoyed this fine poem by Whitman :)
"Gather, oh gather! gather, oh gather" - Nora Pembroke; A Welcome - The Campbells Are Coming... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembr...lls-are-coming
A Welcome - The Campbells Are Coming...A festive poem. Did a rapid search for background information but didnīt find anything.
"Hack and Hew were the sons of God" Hack And Hew by Bliss Carman (William)
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...m-bliss-carman
re: Campbells - might refer to the Robbie Burns tune https://www.scottish-country-dancing...re-coming.html
Lol, hadn't heard of Hack and Hew in my scripture study... we did have a wonderful poet named Hack who used to contribute to LitNet.
"It chanced upon a certain day," - Fanny Fire-Fly; The Ducks And The Frogs - A Tale Of The Bogs....
https://www.poetrycat.com/fanny-fire...le-of-the-bogs
re: Thanks. Very enlightening the link about the Campbells.
re:The Ducks And The Frogs, charming children poem. I was wondering if children still read poetry!
"Jest as atween the awk'ard lines a hand we love has penn'd" The Old Homestead by Eugene Field
https://www.poetrycat.com/eugene-field
Loved the light Yankee vernacular :)
"Kittens large and Kittens small," - Oliver Herford; Foreign Kittens... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-kittens-18463
Foreign Kittens...AAII!
"Let the Nightingale still be renown'd for her song,"The Baya: Or The Indian Bird by William Hayley (A bit long but liked the legend)
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-hayley
Lovely long ballad... the Baya weaver bird renown for other than its song, though its song too is sweet: https://www.google.com/search?q=baya...id:XDqHNt9caxY :)
"Most likely, you think we hated the" - Matthew Olzman; Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years From Now... https://poets.org/poem/letter-someon...ifty-years-now
Cute Baya weaver bird with itīs yellow canary breast. Your link is not allowed here, it seems, but I did a bit of google research for the bird and itīs chant.
Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years From Now...Liked this impressive ecological poem!
"Nature’s first green is gold," Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
https://poets.org/poem/nothing-gold-...%201874%2D1963
Wonderful poem :)
"Often o'er life's pathway straying" - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; Musings... https://www.poetrycat.com/nancy-rebe...-glass/musings
Musings...Beautiful nostalgic (but not entirely)poem.
"Pale as a star that shines through rain"A Legend Of The Lily by Madison Julius Cawein
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-julius-cawein
A Legend Of The Lily... a bit tedious with a happy ending :)
Staying with MJC:
"Quaint and forgotten, by an unused road," - Madison Julius Cawein; The Old House.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ld-house-36918
Beautiful poem!
"RAIN - rain - rain - for three good solid fluid weeks' -Water by William McKendree Carleton
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ndree-carleton
Interesting poem, 3 or 4 in one in mood and pace; "I've journeyed up and down through half Broadway, / And did not see a first-class smile to-day." :)
"Standing under the fobbed" - Philip Larkin; Send No Money... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...in/poems/14592
Re: lol, Yes. "Rain"; "A night in the Theater"; "The Play"...
Found this analysis of Larkins poem, which at first seemed difficult to me:
https://interestingliterature.com/20...%20things%20go'.
"The yard half a yard," The Lake by Deborah Ager
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ager/poems/317