"and one with a silver cup." :)
Poem by poet whose name has an 'x' in it:
"Scraps of cloud in rosy dusk- West Lake is good." - Ouyang Xiu; Scraps of Cloud in Rosy Dusk (Picking Mulberries)... http://www.chinese-poems.com/oyx9.html
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"and one with a silver cup." :)
Poem by poet whose name has an 'x' in it:
"Scraps of cloud in rosy dusk- West Lake is good." - Ouyang Xiu; Scraps of Cloud in Rosy Dusk (Picking Mulberries)... http://www.chinese-poems.com/oyx9.html
Beautiful Chinese poem! You have posted a poem from this site before, but I yust now noticed how delicate this poems are and bookmarked the page.:)
"You ask me how to pray to someone who is not." "On Prayer" by Czeslaw Milosz
https://www.poetrycat.com/czeslaw-milosz
They are nice... I've used 4 of 10 queued... so 6 more by this august poet :)
Czeslaw Milosz: quite celebrated... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czesław_Miłosz
Enjoyed :) His poem is quite in contrast with how he was honored upon his death, perhaps written during his atheistic years, yet quite complex as one reads it closely:
Will have to look up more of his translated poetry :)Quote:
Thousands of people lined the streets to witness his coffin moved by military escort to his final resting place at Skałka Roman Catholic Church, where he was one of the last to be commemorated.[85]... Protesters threatened to disrupt the proceedings on the grounds that Miłosz was anti-Polish, anti-Catholic, and had signed a petition supporting gay and lesbian freedom of speech and assembly.[87] Pope John Paul II, along with Miłosz's confessor, issued public messages confirming that Miłosz had received the sacraments, which quelled the protest.[88]... Though raised Catholic, Miłosz as a young man came to adopt a "scientific, atheistic position mostly", though he later returned to the Catholic faith.[137] He translated parts of the Bible into Polish, and allusions to Catholicism pervade his poetry, culminating in a long 2001 poem, "A Theological Treatise".
"Zeitgeist of the city, cranes with broken necks" - Jim Groom; Ziggy...
https://tdc.ds106.us/writings/ziggy/
I wasn´t aware that Czeslaw Milosz had such an interesting life. Have to look more into his writings.
Ziggy-interesting, synthetic poem!
"A man doesn't have time in his life". "A Man In His Life" by Yehuda Amichai
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ichai/poems/60
Enjoyed ! "He will die as figs die in autumn,
Shriveled and full of himself and sweet,
the leaves growing dry on the ground,
the bare branches pointing to the place
where there's time for everything." A biblical analogy I can relate to :) I have two different types of fig trees, one now overrun by blackberries :( The purple fruited tree is only harvested by me and the birds and the bugs.
"Barada, oh father of all rivers" - Nizar Qabbani; Barada... https://www.poetrycat.com/nizar-qabbani/barada
re: Still related to the theme of Armichai´s poem this song I love( and you know of course):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4
"The purple fruited tree is only harvested by me and the birds and the bugs." :)
"Could my heart hold another one?" "Within" by Susan Coolidge
https://www.poetrycat.com/susan-coolidge/within
Classic song befitting a sacred scripture... the 12-string guitar and perfect harmonies, bright and haunting, still resonate today.
Beautiful poem... I'd replace "slaves" with attendants to take away the historic sting, albeit lightly.
"Despite the storms," - S.C. Lourie; Despite The Storms... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/po...ite-the-storms
re: Agree 100% about the word "slaves". Was even in doubt about posting the otherwise beautiful poem.
"Despite the storms," -an optimistic poem!
"Each strips his own skin". "Wedding" by Vasko Popa
https://www.poetrycat.com/vasko-popa/wedding
The poem is a bit surreal for my understanding even in its simple word play.
"From morn to eve, from evening unto morning," - Nora Pembroke; Lamentation... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/lamentation
re: "Wedding" must be a famous poem, because I found it on several websites.Unfortunately I didn´t found any analysis, but only this general description of Vasco Popa`s poetry:
"Vasko Popa wrote in a succinct modernist style that owed much to surrealism and Serbian folk traditions (via the influence of Serbian poet Momčilo Nastasijević) and absolutely nothing to the Socialist Realism that dominated Eastern European literature after World War II. He created a unique poetic language, mostly elliptical, that combines a modern form, often expressed through colloquial speech and common idioms and phrases, with old, oral folk traditions of Serbia – epic and lyric poems, stories, myths, riddles, etc. In his work, earthly and legendary motifs mix, myths come to surface from the collective subconscious, the inheritance and everyday are in constant interplay, and the abstract is reflected in the specific and concrete, forming a unique and extraordinary poetic dialectics.."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasko_Popa
"Lamentation"- Beautiful but very sad poem, specially as it seems to be dedicated to her own sons.
"God bless the man who gave us rest" "Stanzas" by Freeman Edwin Miller
https://www.poetrycat.com/freeman-ed...o-gave-us-rest
Enjoyed the wiki. Considering he wrote in colloquial Serbian using the language tools he created, the translations I've read are mostly accessible.
Stanzas: Intriguing poem...
"Her cheek was wet with North Sea spray," - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; By The North Sea... https://www.poetrycat.com/arthur-con...-the-north-sea
Charming poem by Conan Doyle, who I hitherto associated only with detective stories.
"In the middle of countries, far from hills and sea," "Out Of The Window" by Aldous Leonard Huxley
https://www.poetrycat.com/aldous-leo...-of-the-window
... and Huxley whom one associates with dystopia; enjoyed his train poem :)
"Just come to my mind" - Vasko Popa; Give Me Back My Rags... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22604
re: Poetry Cat offering some good surprises by authors mostly known by their prose. :)
"Give Me Back My Rags..." Reveals a rather ferocious disposition of mind!
"King's daughter sitting in tower so high,". "The Raven And The King's Daughter" by William Morris
https://www.poetrycat.com/william-mo...kings-daughter
re: "Rags" - Yes... a very angry poem :(
Enjoyed the conversation poem... the princess will receive her love I believe.
"Long since, I lived beneath vast porticoes," - Charles Baudelaire; A Former Life... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-ba.../a-former-life