"nobody loses all the time" - ee cummings; nobody loses all the time... https://www.poetryverse.com/e-e-cumm...loses-all-time
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"nobody loses all the time" - ee cummings; nobody loses all the time... https://www.poetryverse.com/e-e-cumm...loses-all-time
lol Uncle Sol must be a distant US relative of Bras Cubas, who dedicated his memories to the first worm that would bite into his flesh.
"On a starless night,"."On A Starless Night" by Mosab Abu Toha
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2024/0...-abu-toha/amp/
Lol!
Oh, the humanity! Enjoyed the poem. Sad.
"Patched velvet chairs," - Ross Blair; The Office
... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw138.html
Reads a bit kafkean. Not so usual a theme for a poem
"IF a leaf rustled, she would start:"The White Moth" by Arthur T. Quiller-Couch
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/quiller1.html#1
How heartbreaking! Enjoyed :(
Written today ! (7 hours ago even) :)
"ripple of water" - Joseph Moon; A ripple of water- Tanka... https://allpoetry.com/poem/17898522-...by-Joseph-Moon
Sad but beautiful tanka.
Cheating a little bit:
"Green Snake, when I hung you round my neck"."To The Snake" by Denise Levertov
https://allpoetry.com/To-The-Snake
(researched the poem last night, but forgot to post it-oh seniority)
(lol) Love this poem :)
"Tang of fruitage in the air;" - Amy Lowell; Late September... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ll/poems/20029
"Late September"-lovely poem about the workings of nature. Good to read about sun, when it's finally raining.
"UNtouch'd by love, unmov'd by wit,"VERSES written in SYLVIA'S PRIOR." by David Gerrick
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....54-w0510.shtml
Jealousy ?
"VOLTAIRE, believe me, were I now" - Frederick II, King of Prussia; An EPISTLE from the King of PRUSSIA, to Monsieur VOLTAIRE... https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....57-w0690.shtml
Itīs very possible, yes!
"An EPISTLE from the King of PRUSSIA, to Monsieur VOLTAIRE..." What a find, tailor! Frederick II, was quite accomplished!
Some more about the relationship of Friedrich II and Voltaire:
https://www.heritage-history.com/ind...story=voltaire
"When I think how far the onion has traveled". "The Traveling Onion by Naomi Shihab Nye"
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...mi-shihab-nye/
V & KoP: What a kerfuffle !
Delightful onion poem... enjoyed! :)
"Xylophone players are marching on once more" - Stoddard; Xylophone... https://allpoetry.com/poem/17564728-...ne-by-Stoddard
Love the word kerfuffle!
Xylophone-legit x poem and to the point!
"You would not think"."Cello" by Ramon C Sunico
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2006/0...-c-sunico/amp/
Enjoyed! : " to love / a mermaid whose hair / can sing," very sensuous poem :)
"Zoey....I Thought That You Would Be......" - Stephen W. Pollard; Zoey....I Thought That... https://www.authorsden.com/visit/vie...AuthorID=73904
Zoey- realistic but somewhat whiny.
"An architect draws a watercolor"."Architect’s Watercolor" by Arthur Sze
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a...ts-watercolor/
Zoey- lol
Wonderful poem! Enjoyed (benzene ring and all) :)
"Between the computer, a pencil, and a typewriter" - Adam Zagajewski
Translated by Clare Cavanagh; Self Portrait... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2005/0...am-zagajewski/
Loved this self portrait. Very up to date. Some interesting images: "Black birds pace the fields,/waiting patiently like Spanish widows."
"can be enough to make you look up"."Any Common Desolation" by Ellen Bass
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2021/0...by-ellen-bass/
Very evocative images! "The ruby neon of the liquor store sign." reminds me of my first job while in high school circa 1971 employed at a local liquor store. One of my jobs was to change the outdoor/roof display for what was on sale in large letters/numbers and one day the owner asked me to put "(my name) works here" as the sole message. I have a slide (remember those?) still somewhere of a photo taken... kinda silly I guess. Can't relate to the ending lines including "a needle slipped into your vein" but it says something about the protagonist's environment.... Enjoyed !
"Deeply morbid deeply morbid was the girl who typed the letters" - Stevie Smith; Deeply Morbid... https://allpoetry.com/Deeply-Morbid
It seems that your employer was making you a homage. Probably your arrangements were imaginative and attractive.
Deeply morbid is not so deeply morbid, because saved by art and playful repetition.
""ecco a letter starting"dearest we""."Ecco A Letter Starting" by e.e Cummings
https://www.poetryverse.com/e-e-cumm...etter-starting
He had me at "ecco"... lol. A "moon maiden" with her silver shoes... asking "her" to accept his advances???... here's something (lol)... https://allpoetry.com/ecco-a-letter-starting Enjoyed :)
"From routine that deafly eats away" - Babette Deutch; Visit to the Zoo...
https://pickmeuppoetry.org/visit-to-...abette-deutch/
lol. e.e showing that he is modern.
Enjoyed the analysis!
Wonderful poem! Loved the animal descriptions. Not wonderful ads trying to interfere with the reading
"Give all to love;" "Give All to Love By Ralph Waldo Emerson
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/search/?type=poem
A bit dated but otherwise wonderful... interesting warning: "When half-gods go, /The gods arrive." Enjoyed :)
"Henry the first, surnamed "Beauclare," - Marriott Edgar; Queen Matilda... https://www.poetry.com/poem/26575/queen-matilda
Lol. Seems the poet is poking fun at the English royalty.
"It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men.""GENERAL, YOUR TANK IS A POWERFUL VEHICLE" by Berthold Brecht
https://allpoetry.com/From-A-German-War-Primer
A lot to take in for this/these poem(s)... resorted to wikipedia for a history lesson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic A very somber take on the times.
"Jump jump jump Jump away" - Kate Greenaway; The Little Jumping Girls... https://allpoetry.com/The-Little-Jumping-Girls
BB: Yes it was crowned by the Nazi period. One anecdote my father told about the hyperinflation. His family lived in a rented house. My grandfather used to send the money of the rent per post. At a certain point he started to bring the money personally to his landlord. The stamp had become more expensive than the rent itself.
Enjoyed this charming Victorian jumping poem and the subsequent analysis. The author seems to have had a lot of empathy about how children feel and think.
"Kashmir shrinks into my mailbox,"Postcard from Kashmir" by Agha Shahid Ali
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2007/04/09/postcards/
re: BB... Wow!
Enjoyed... I need to get some postcards and surprise the recipients :)
"Love is sharper than stones or sticks;" - Dorothy Parker; Ballade Of Unfortunate Mammals... https://pickmeuppoetry.org/ballade-o...orothy-parker/
Lol! Poor Mammals!
"My child,". ""A Mother's Love" by Line Gauthier
Source: https://pickmeuppoetry.org/a-mothers...line-gauthier/
Sweet poem :) Enjoyed.
"Never did sculptor's dream unfold," - Ralph W. Emerson; Sonnet Of Michel Angelo Buonarotti... https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse...n+Tea+Party%25
The link of the poem didnīt open , but found it here:https://www.readbookonline.org/readOnLine/7535/
Very interesting poem: The dead sculptor talking about a non existent statue of a cold lady.
"O GENTLE, gentle summer rain,"."INVOCATION TO RAIN IN SUMMER." by William Cox Bennett (1820-1895)
https://potw.org/archive/potw399.html
Thanx for the other link for international use :)
Wonderful poem! :) Perfect timing for this poem, my oft invocation for these fire seasons :) ... 40 % chance of rain today... mostly cloudy with a high of 94° F (34.444° C)... hoping no lightning in our tinder dry hills.
"Pale genius roves alone," - Ralph W. Emerson; Pale Genius roves alone... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/pale-genius-roves-alone
re:Wish you luck with the weather and with politics.
" Queensland,” he heads his letters—that’s all: Billy of Queensland by Henry Lawson
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/billy-queensland
Thanx re: weather. Politics...
"Come to think of it, I forgot—" (lol) Enjoyed :)
"Rich and rare were the gems she wore," - Thomas Moore; Rich and Rare Were the Gems She Wore... https://allpoetry.com/Rich-and-Rare-...-Gems-She-Wore
You are welcome!
Lol! A bit out of date this poem! Erin or no Erin, no cautious woman walks around wearing gems (if she has any) or her virtue!
"SAW ye Johnny comin?" quo' she,"."A NEW VERSION OF AN OLD SCOTCH SONG" by Joanna Baillie
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....18-w0640.shtml
Ah, perhaps a diary entry of a poem/song about a lass smitten wi' Johnny... perhaps the author... enjoyed :)
"ta" - ee cummings; Portraits III... https://cummings.ee/book/and/poem/portraits-iii/
re: :)
ee- Very creative, ingenious poem.
"UP goes the price of our bread--".Ballade of the Traffickers" by FRANKLIN P. ADAMS
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/...hing04.html#69
"All that the traffic will bear." - a dystopian motto of the future I learned from the David Falkayn
stories by Poul Anderson as a teen reader... didn't know it had a lengthy past, but dislike the reality faced now. Enjoyed the poem though :)
"Vibrant despair blowing out like sand paper from the soul" - David Cunha; Heightened flow state... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/4801708...ed-flow-state/
re:So do I.
Interesting poem by this Portuguese poet you discovered.! :)
"We will call you “Agua” like the rivers and cool jugs."."Negotiations with a Volcano* by Naomi Shihab Nye
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2014/1...hihab-nye/amp/
Re: "Agua" - found this... https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=342100 One reads of the perils of living near volcanoes in Italy, Indonesia, Philippine's, Mexico, Washington state, etc. One tosses the dice and tempts the fates. Enjoyed the poem :)
"Xanadu may exude such percussive bliss" - Robert Gorelick; For X, Y, Z Word Poetry Contest... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/xylophone_1572513
re: And I thought "Agua" was an invented name, Interesting data: a volcano called water that spits fire.
Took a Covid shot today (every six months), but the needle got out and spilled the medicine. They gave a half doses then, so now I am half vaccinated. :(
You keep surprising me with X poems. Enjoyed this one with acrostic. (:
"Well, it’s too long for one thing "."Editing the Prairie by DON KERR"
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/editing-prairie
Scary about the Covid shot. I'm perplexed on what the schedule should be, we no longer have/need Covid cards to keep track... my last, I believe, was in September when I also got my flu shot... prolly wait until this September for the next. There appears to be minimal Covid education going on where I live.
Another "W" poem... Oh my! What a descriptive critique, lol. Enjoyed :)
"X marks" - Sage Sweetwater; X Marks the Spot... https://www.authorsden.com/visit/vie...AuthorID=29292
re Covid: Covid shot seems OK, left arm hurting a bit where the vaccine was applied, but that was expected. Ė try to keep the record with the vaccine cards. Some control and regularity are necessary even if the rules vary from country too country.In your family you all recovered from covid and I think it was because of the shots. Vaccine policy may change if the Republicans win.
Poem more challenging than most X poems. Enjoyed.
"YE ancient patriarchs of the wood,".The FAIR RECLUSE. BALLAD VIII.(chunk) by Christopher Smart
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....03-w0290.shtml