Enjoyed! Some of Wesley's songs are in my hymnal that we often sing :)
"Art thou not sweet," - Kate Seymour Maclean; Bird Song... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ird-song-25598
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Enjoyed! Some of Wesley's songs are in my hymnal that we often sing :)
"Art thou not sweet," - Kate Seymour Maclean; Bird Song... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ird-song-25598
AAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!Very sweet indeed!
"Beyond my window in the night"."A Town Window" by John Drinkwater
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/gp2_4a.html#window
Wonderful poem... enjoyed :)
"Crass rays streaming from the vestibules;" - Lola Ridge; Flotsam... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com.../flotsam-29080
Reads very modern to me, powerful images!This link explains a lot:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Ridge
"Days the weather sits"."Place to Be" by Robert Creeley
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2016/0...t-creeley/amp/
Interesting bio of LR. Her images really stand out.
RC - very short and concise... enjoyed :)
"Eleven o’clock, and the curtain falls." - Louis Untermeyer; End of the Comedy... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/1...is-untermeyer/
End of the Comedy...-So true!Natural forces are rebelling, but human forces are too.
"Finding a new poet"."A New Poet" by Linda Pastan
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2008/0...-linda-pastan/
Love this poem so much: "... if only there had been a flower." :)
"grass is unusual" - Ward Maxwell; grass... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/grass
Enjoyed the grass poem. Grass is so welcome in places where there is only asphalt and stones!
"Hello, listen, I’m on a field phone, do not speak until I say “over.” "Fire Watch" by KEN BABSTOCK
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/fire-watch
Lol..."I’ve been contracted to watch this horizon and will / be here until something happens." Enjoyed this lonely poem :)
"i twist and gasp" - KATERI AKIWENZIE-DAMM; sturgeon... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/sturgeon
Gripping poem! One feels a sturgeon on reading it.
"THE Jester shook his hood and bells, and leaped upon a chair,"."The Jester's Sermon" by George Walter Thornbury
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/thorn01.html#1
A rollicking sermon... Enjoyed :)
"Kisses can kiss us" - Gertrude Stein; Readings... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...ertrude-stein/
Enjoyed the synthetic and somewhat cryptic poem.
"let it go – the"."let it go – the" e.e. cummings
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...-cummings/amp/
Another enigmatic offering by e.e.. Found the following as a worthy attempt to unravel... https://missprint.wordpress.com/2016...y-ee-cummings/ Enjoyed :)
"Morning thick with inscrutable dinge;" - Erin Belieu; Late Autumnal, with Cockroach... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...recently_added
... the link works then blips out then works then blips out... captured somehow as:
Quote:
Morning thick with inscrutable dinge;
another season drained. I’m watching
the pest control man fill the rat bait
station, black attaché of poison hidden
in the hedge.
And while I pay a monthly
bill for him to do my killing, still
it seems miraculous, how much insists
on surviving, despite us. What grinds it
out. What hustles simply to continue.
Like this plumply enormous
roach, its carapace the molten brown of
topaz, tooled cannily to fold into a ceaseless
package: look at it now collapsing to fit exactly
between my deck’s wooden slats.
No matter what unspeakable
agents we devise for it to carry to its nest,
there comes a calm in knowing there will always
be an awful, inexorable more of something,
other than us, to crawl or slither, gnaw & be
gnawed; a peaceful certainty of moreness,
creeping through our filth to greet what’s
coming soon.
Unloved, ingenious creatures,
the few truly diligent, whom we can never
drive off or annihilate completely, this poem
remembers you, waiting in our unplugged
cracks & fuming sewers, seeing the relentless
engines you’ve willed yourselves to be, the valor
of your tidy & despised machinery.
Source: Poetry (July/August 2024)
The analysis of Miss Print makes sense. Somehow one has to get read of relationships that don´t work anymore to make room for those relationships that matter. But I don´t think, in real life things are so cleanly cut out. One carries relationships along that are often mixed. And one needs them as they are.
There is also an aspect the poem doesn´t contemplate: the people or circunstances that let one go, whether one is prepared or no.
re poem: Thanks for posting the poem. I think that is former generous poetry foundation making life difficult for non subscribers.
The poem might be written by Clarice Lispector, who had a fascination for roaches:https://miamiartscharter.net/ourpage...th%20Story.pdf (Don´t know who the translator is, but the translation is good)
"A NARROW Fellow in the Grass"."A narrow Fellow in the Grass [cc]" by Emily Dickinson
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/dickin01.html#22
Enjoyed ! "Yet when a Boy, and Barefoot--"... channeling a young boy ?
"Oh, who will hush that cry outside the doors," - Josephine Preston Peabody; The Feaster... https://www.poetrycat.com/josephine-...dy/the-feaster
I think ED is impersonating a childhood remembrance of a male lyric voice
"O house me, glories! Give me house and home/Here for my homelessness." AI!
"Perch on their water perch hung in the clear Bann River"."The Perch" by Seamus Heaney
https://www.poetrycat.com/seamus-heaney/the-perch
Found this analysis:
http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/p...main%20unmoved.
Wonderful language ! Such a dreamy waterscape... enjoyed very much :) Enjoyed the background and analysis too :)
"Queen of the silver bow! — by thy pale beam," - Charlotte Smith; SONNET [04] IV. To the Moon.... https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....cs-w0040.shtml
Enjoyed the sonnet! How many women poets are there in this collection of the eighteenth century!
"Remote from Strife, from urban Throngs, and Noise"."By a Person of Quality." by Mary Barber
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....35-w1060.shtml
"Remote from Strife, from urban Throngs, and Noise.
Here dwells my Soul amidst domestic Joys:
...
Wrapt up in all the Sweets of rural Ease,
My great Creator's Works my Senses please.
The Mind, in peaceful Solitude, has Room
To range in Thought, and ramble far from home,
...
"Whilst I, in sacred Silence, truly live."
Ah yes, why I moved to the country... if it wasn't for fire danger here it would be more than adequate. There are other avenues to pursue... seaside haunts have always been on my mind... perhaps.
"She always writes poems. This summer" - Marie Ponsot; The Problem of Fiction... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2005/0...-marie-ponsot/
"Read a Little Poetry" has become a paid site but found the poem here:https://exceptindreams.livejournal.com/575399.html
Loved it(only a bit too much biting in it). But the problem of fiction would be making fiction with the elements you have.
Living in the country or at the seaside must be lovely. I never lived on the country, but in small towns and I liked it at the time.
Today I probably would have to get used to them again, because São Paulo is an immensity.
"The heart of a bear is a cloud-shuttered"."Arrhythmia" by Hailey Leithauser
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/arrhythmia/
Not paywalled here yet :(
Wonderful poem with twists and turns for language... enjoyed so very much :)
"Upon a Lilac Sea" - Emily Dickinson; 'Upon a Lilac Sea'... https://eliteskills.com/c/5673
I confess I am a bit confused about the interpretation of E Ds poem. The interpretation refers to several lines that are not in the poem. I looked up other posts of the poem to see if this is an abridged version but the versions I found are all alike.
"visiting a past self. Being anywhere makes me thirsty."Being in This World Makes Me Feel Like a Time Traveler" by Kaveh Akbar
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2020/0...veh-akbar/amp/
(Seems there are currently two versions of "Read a Little Poetry" on line: the older one we have been using and the new one associated with a paid site).
Lololol... you're right !
Intriguing poem with its wonderful last line :)
"When you caught one to keep," - Kimberly Casey; Golden Hour... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/golden-hour/
"Golden Hour". Impressive poem about "natural" violence.
"X marks". "X Marks the Spot" by Sage Sweetwater
https://www.authorsden.com/visit/vie...AuthorID=29292
Enjoyed :)
"You and I, our hands" - Anthony Orozco; mano a mano... https://www.thenasiona.com/2020/03/0...nthony-orozco/
"mano a mano"- Beautiful poem!
"I dreamt last night; and in that dream"."Z---------'s Dream" by Anne Bronte
https://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=345201
Enjoyed. Complex poem for me... found some enlightenment here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full...09606#abstract :)
"After all," - Yukunno Ghirmay; QESINE... https://www.poetry.com/poem/163043/qesine
Thanks for the very interesting and complete critique on "Z_______Dreams".
Enjoyed the minimalism of QESINE...
"The barnacle is rather odd —"."The Barnacle" by A.E. Stallings
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-barnacle/
Enjoyed the étude on the barnacle :)
"Come, let us weep for Begum; he is dead."- John Kendall; Elegy On A Rhinoceros (Recently Deceased)... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ed-49304343604
Ai! Beautiful poem on the death of Begun! Didn't find a bio of the poet, 19 C perhaps?
"Dancing and prancing to town we go,"."On The Wall Top." by Kate Greenaway
https://www.poetrycat.com/kate-green...n-the-wall-top
Found something:
• https://prabook.com/web/john_kaye.kendall/748453
• https://orlando.cambridge.org/people...8-c0c970b75e96
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76016851
• https://www.picturesofengland.com/En...ctures/1131480
• From https://www.ststephensgreatwigboroug...truth-revealed
We get:
• Pg 7 of 20 of the following link shows a photo of John Kaye Kendall in a bio about his wife Githa Sowerby (Pg 5 of 20) https://minttheater.org/mint/wp-cont...fordProgam.pdfQuote:
Dum-Dum it turned out was someone different altogether. A search of author pseudonyms quickly revealed it was the pen name of Captain John Kaye Kendall (1869 -1952), who wrote light hearted poems on subjects as diverse as women’s hockey, an elephant’s bath and the best kind of Christmas gift.
A Gunnery Instructor with the Royal Artillery in India, he started writing to banish the tedium of a long colonial posting abroad, and published several books of humorous verse, of dubious quality and now largely forgotten. These included At Odd Moments: A book of Verses and Parodies (1900), In the Hills and other Views (1903), The Crackling of Thorns (1906), A Fool’s Paradise (1910) and Odd Creatures (1915).
On his return from India, he made his name writing poems and articles for Punch (from 1902 onwards) under the pseudonym of Dum-Dum. He married the playwright Githa Sowerby and died in 1952.
What’s surprising is he wrote this poem, not after a visit to the Wigboroughs, but based solely on a newspaper article about them.
Interestingly, the poem was written (and published in Punch) exactly 50 years after the Great English Earthquake of 1884, in which so much damage was caused to Great and Little Wigborough. Was the newspaper article he read about the villages commemorating the anniversary of this important event? It certainly seems a strong possibility.
So, in conclusion, the poem is perhaps disappointingly, but quite definitely, not the work of John Betjeman, but rather that of a less well-known poet and writer, Captain John Kaye Kendall (aka Dum-Dum).
However, this should not detract from its value or sentiment, as a fulsome celebration of the rural idyll, and of the author’s desire, echoed by many of us today, to find a peaceful spot to live at one with nature, away from traffic and the stresses of modern life.
• More on Githa: (start pg 5) https://static1.squarespace.com/stat...ProgramQTG.pdf
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/op...6.womans-work/
• His Mother: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Peard-125
• Some background on Begum: https://www.researchgate.net/publica..._in_South_Asia
Sweet, light, short poem by KG... enjoyed :)
"Even a rock" - Molly Peacock; How I Come to You... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...molly-peacock/
Lololol! If someone badly in need of a goodliterature researcher reads the post above, it might be the end of your retirement!
Through his better known wife and a poem wrongly attributed to a more famous poet! Even Begum from an Indian Zoo was contemplated by the research!
Coming back later! Must try to get at the old version of "Read a Little Poetry" to read your poem. Probably my fault. Author of the site must have detected a massive interest from South America in the poems and thought this was the right time to transform the site in a paid site.
I love to research out of curiosity; JKK seemed worthy of a deeper dive :)
Hmmm... When I first copied the link there was no problem... but when I tried again there was a popup to "subscribe" in a free manner, which I did, so no pay wall for me, but they must be noticing the traffic coming through with their analytics... it's a shame they feel the need to interrupt casual browsing.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Molly Peacock; "How I Come to You"_Wonderful description of a person, starting a new relationship? still with the scars of the old one. I had sawed (and used a lot) the alphabetical list of first lines of the site, so I could read the poem. The second reading was interrupted and I subscribed.
"From blossoms comes". "From Blossoms" by Li-Young Lee
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2020/1...-li-young-lee/
re: MP... I think you're right.
Sweet poem... haven't had a peach in ages... enjoyed :)
"grass is unusual" - Ward Maxwell; grass... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/grass
Grass- quite an unusual subject for a poem. Enjoyed !
"Helen, thy beauty is to me"."To Helen" by Edgar Allan Poe
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/helen
Thought it was a simple homage to Helen of Troy - but my curiosity got the better of me... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Helen... Enjoyed :)
"In a logged over meadow" - Stephen Meadows; Tenmile... https://www.sacramentopoetrycenter.c...-brigit-truex/
re "To Helen"-Thanks for the enlightening analysis. I had no idea how important this poem is in Poe´s oeuvre. For me it was also just a homage to Helen of Troy.
"Tenmile" -Enjoyed very much. For me a minimalist take on the Indians that were "disappeared" from their own soil.
"THE jewelled steps are already quite white with dew,"."The Jewel Stairs' Grievance" by Ezra Pound
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/pound01.html#10 (10th Pound poem)
"Tenmile" was written by my Gold Country poet friend :)
Interesting choice... enjoyed the poem and the analysis :)
"Kate-a-Whimsies, John-a-Dreams," - William Ernest Henley; Kate-A-Whimsies, John-A-Dreams... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/15039/k...john-a-dreams/
re: Yes, I noticed that he is from Sacramento.I hope there are more poems by him in the net.
"Kate-a-Whimsies..."Well, maybe the poet is just saying that nothing is for ever: neither life, nor love and no one's dreams or whims.
" 'LET little children come to me,' " "ST. LUKE XVIII. 16." by Joanna Baillie
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....18-w0850.shtml