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re: Xi Jinping - Warrior politician with the soul of a poet perhaps. Read about the two meeting in my news feed; an economic summit of some sort if I recall.
re: Dreamland - "When midnight mists are creeping,
And all the land is sleeping,
Around me tread the mighty dead,
And slowly pass away." - I might have been inclined to stop with these four powerful lines :)
Going with another poet with the letter 'x' in his/her name:
"After the fresh blossoms have gone- West Lake is good." - Ouyang Xiu; After the Fresh Blossoms Have Gone (Picking Mulberries)... http://www.chinese-poems.com/oyx4.html
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re: Dreamland - a good synthesis.
Ouyang Xiu; After the Fresh Blossoms Have Gone -Delicate sad poem
"You've asked me what the lobster is weaving there with " "Enigmas" by Pablo Neruda
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...da/poems/15724
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Incredible poem by Neruda :)
"Zoo is a place of fun," - Daniele Niepokoj; A Zoo you should go...
https://tdc.ds106.us/writings/a-zoo-you-should-go/
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Enjoyed the aliterative poem with difficult "Z",
"ATTEND my lays, ye ever honour'd nine," "An Hymn To The Morning" by Phillis Wheatley
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ey/poems/17810
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Beautiful rhyming poem :)
"Before the grandeur" - karl marszalowicz; The Blank Page... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/the_blank_page_551146
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re: "An Hymn To The Morning". Did you recognize the poet? https://www.loa.org/writers/684-phillis-wheatley
"The Blank Page." Poetry as a way to fame.
"Calling, the heron flies athwart the blue" "The Creek-Road" by Madison Julius Cawein
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...eek-road-37005
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Yes, after your link :)
Dreamy poem with an interesting rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdedce
"Dismounted, we drank to bid you farewell." - Wang Wei; Farewell... https://mandarinmatrix.org/famous-chinese-poems/
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Enjoyed "Farewell". I'm reproducing the poem here because Matrix put a partial impediment on the page.
“Farewell”, by Wang Wei
"Dismounted, we drank to bid you farewell.
I asked, “My friend, where are you heading?”
You said, “Oh, nothing is working my way,
So be back to the crags of Nanshan, retiring.”
“Go then! You’ll ask of the world no more!
Ah, days of endless white clouds, unending!”
https://mandarinmatrix.org/famous-chinese-poems/
"Every valley drinks,"Winter Rain by Christina Georgina Rossetti
https://www.poetrycat.com/christina-...ti/winter-rain
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Beautiful poem by CGR... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti... I'll borrow it for this week's Thursday at Two poetry group to share as a poem from another poet :) Our creative theme for 5/4/2023 is Earth Day or Nature or May the 4th (be with you)/Sci Fi... and I haven't settled yet but have some ideas percolating.
"Friends" - Nizar Qabbani; Verse... https://www.poetrycat.com/nizar-qabbani/verse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizar_Qabbani
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Loved "Friends". Put it into the other forum in a thread of favorite universal poems.
"G o on your way, my youthful friend,"To Master George Twiddy by Thomas Frederick Young
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...e-twiddy-34583
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An homage acrostic to George Twiddy :)
"His amphibian torso" - Fady Joudah; Maqam of Palm Trees (for Rahim El hajj)... https://www.sukoonmag.com/responsive/tag/etel-adnan/
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Maqam of Palm Trees-Interesting, complex images.
"maqām, (Arabic: “place of residence”), a spiritual stage that periodically marks the long path followed by Muslim mystics (Sufis) leading to the vision of and union with God."
https://www.google.com/search?q=Maqu...hrome&ie=UTF-8
"In the early morning-shine". Life’s Hebe by James Thomson (BV)
https://www.poetrycat.com/james-thomson-bv
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The 7-major maqāms of Sufism are enlightening.
Enjoyed the poem :) Hebe: Daughter of Zeus/Hera, sister to Ares, wife to Herakles - cup bearer to the gods whose draught was immortality and could bring youth back to the old in mythology... https://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Hebe.html
"Joy in Trojan congregations" - Friedrich Schiller; Cassandra... https://www.thechainedmuse.com/post/...drich-schiller
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Enjoyed the poem and the link about Hebe. Additionally to the poem:https://www.saxonica.com/~mike/OdeToJoy.html and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo.
"My daughter plays on the floor" "Spelling" by Margaret Atwood
https://www.poetrycat.com/margaret-atwood/spelling
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"Ode" - the first link echoed the frustration with translating... the second brought me tears of joy :)
"My daughter..." - Powerful graphic poem: https://letsexploreliterature.wordpr...rgaret-atwood/
"Near Hastings, on the shingle-beach," - Toru Dutt; Near Hastings... https://www.poetrycat.com/toru-dutt/near-hastings
