Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Delightful vernacular poem :)

"Whate'er most wild and new" - Francesco Petrarca; Canzone XVIII. Qual più diversa e nova. / He Compares Himself to All That Is Most Strange in Creation... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/canzone-xx

Petrarcas majestic verse!

Poem by a poet, whose name begins with "X".

"Very quietly I take my leave", "Saying Good-Bye To Cambridge Again" Poem by Xu Zhimo
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sayi...mbridge-again/

Beautiful poem: "The golden willows by the riverside, / Are young brides in the setting sun; / Their reflections on the shimmering waves, / Always linger in the depth of my heart." :)

"You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus:" - Kahlil Gibran; Madman (Prologue)... https://poets.org/poem/how-i-became-madman-prologue

Madman (Prologue)...- Impressive Prologue. Kalil Gibran was at a time cult here in Brazil but I never read him.


"Zack Bumstead useter flosserfize"."A Philosopher" by Sam Walter Foss
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...losopher-39169

lololol ! :)

"Air-raid sirens across the country" - Victoria Amelina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Amelina ; Sirens... http://www.verseville.org/poems-by-v...a-amelina.html

Thanks for choosing a poem by Victoria Amelina, the brave H journalist, writer and poet that was killed in a raid, just some days ago. I'm going to post your poem on her obituary in another forum. Didn't mention her here, for I wasn't sure if anyone knew about her. I myself read her name for the first time some days ago, but here she is!
What a beginning!"B" poem follows tomorrow when I am on PC.

In a similar mood:

"Beyond Siberia again Siberia,". "Beyond Siberia Again Siberia" by Regina Derieva
https://www.poetrycat.com/regina-der...-again-siberia

A depiction of the bleakness of exile: "Beyond the wall another wall, / on the wall stopped dead one sentinel." :)

"Caught in the center of a soundless field" - Philip Larkin Myxomatosis... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...in/poems/14596

Myxomatosis...I had to get help to understand this poem, I didn´t know about this disease: https://poemanalysis.com/philip-larkin/myxomatosis/. Sad poem!

"DUST of the feet"."Clark Street Bridge" by Carl Sandburg
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/sandb02.html#sand4

Thanks for your research... I didn't know either; a very distressing poem in such a short form. I had looked up the disease to find out about the wasting of the poor bunnies, but had no idea that it was introduced by man to a 99% mortality rate :(

Enjoyed the somber poem :) Analysis: https://literarydevices.net/clark-street-bridge/

"Every few months or so, I turn into a rock. First, my joints stiffen as if" - Ryan Teitman; Paperweight... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...42/paperweight

Paperweight... Wonderful poem set in form of prose. One gets this "rock feeling".

re: Thanks for the analysis to "Clark Street Bridge", Ihad no idea where these bridge was. I' m breaking again the rules and reverting to "b", because I finally found a suitable translation of one of my favorite poems by beloved Lorca, which is somehow related to the tematic of "Clark Street Bridge". It´s a long poem and I think readers need some time to elaborate all its images, so the "G" poem, that is due, follows tomorrow(or, if you prefer, you get on with "G", I`ll do the next).

"Beneath the multiplications,".Federico García Lorca: New York (Office and Denunciation) from A Poet in New York
https://voxpopulisphere.com/2021/07/10/61373/

Rich poetic images of blood everywhere... he must have caught New York on a bad day, oh wait, he did.
"I denounce the conspiracy of these deserted offices
that erase the architecture of the forest in agony,"

Go with "G":

"Green mountains all around, and so many buildings." - Lin Sheng; Writing on the Wall of an Inn in Lin’an... https://bangalorereview.com/2019/04/...-song-dynasty/

re Lorca: "Rich poetic images of blood everywhere." Interesting comment, I never thought of that poem in that way. At that time I believe the blood images were still only related to the exploitation of natural life by the implacable economics of the big city. Later he would become one more victim of the Spanish Civil War:
"In June 1929, García Lorca travelled to the US with Fernando de los Rios on the RMS Olympic, a sister liner to the RMS Titanic.[22] They stayed mostly in New York City, where Rios started a lecture tour and García Lorca enrolled at Columbia University School of General Studies, funded by his parents. He studied English but, as before, was absorbed more by writing than by study. At Columbia, he lived in room 617 in Furnald Hall before moving to room 1231 in John Jay Hall.[23][24] He also spent time in Vermont and later in Havana, Cuba.

His collection Poeta en Nueva York (Poet in New York, published posthumously in 1940) explores alienation and isolation through some graphically experimental poetic techniques and was influenced by the Wall Street crash which he personally witnessed.[25] [26] [27]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federi...c%C3%ADa_Lorca

"Writing on the Wall of an Inn in Lin’an..." Enjoyed!

"HONEY, child, honey, child, whither are you going?"."Village Song" by Sarojini Naidu
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...idu/poems/4589

Interesting conversation poem: "The voices of the fairy folk are calling me: O listen!" :)

"I gave this world a song." - Carolyn Marie Rodgers; Affirmation: A Monologue Poem... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...monologue-poem

Affirmation: A Monologue Poem... Fantastic poem! A really collective hymn of affirmation!


"Jane Austen Beecher Stowe de Rouse"."The Mare's Nest" by Rudyard Kipling
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ares-nest-3332

An interesting poem... "A ‘Mare’s Nest’ is an old fashioned and particularly English phrase for a ridiculous situation or imbrogilo (sic).": https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rea...maresnest1.htm

"Katie Casey was baseball mad," - Jack Norworth; Take Me Out to the Ball Game... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw436.html