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The first lines caught my eye, naturally. I really enjoyed the Autumn imagery of the poem.Quote:
Originally Posted by tailor STATELY
Dark Angel, with thine aching lust - The Dark Angel by Lionel Johnson
https://www.poeticous.com/lionel-joh...ne-aching-lust
Sorry, tailor and Muse! A typical senior blunder! When I wrote post # 198 it was on a space on page 13 before post #. What I totally forgot is that the post would not appear on that place but be published only on page fourteen after intervening posts including the #197 it was referring too! Going to edit it.Quote:
Page 14 ? Looking... (smacks head with palm)... we're on page 14 (lol)... nope... still looking....
figured it out: Pg 14 here if one is signed out... my Pg 5 because of my page preferences
Hope your young head is fine after so much smacking, tailor!
"Enough of thought, philosopher!" The Philosopher by Emily Bronte
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ilosopher-9575
"young"... lol
"'The Dark Angel'" is a very dense and dark poem... found some understanding here: https://www.thedarkfortress.co.uk/li...p#.YtPL9DHMLIU
"The Philosopher" - another incredible poem "--Still to my Death will say/Three Gods within this little frame/Are warring night and day"... more struggle.
"Freezes, goes blue screen, shuts down. Dead pixel, dark." - Raoul Fernandes An Online Friend Dies Somewhere Outside the Internet...
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/...tside-internet
Interesting poem "An Online Friend Dies Somewhere Outside the Internet". I believe it is the first poem about internet relationships that I read. Love this Canada based site.
"Give me a few more hours to pass" Finis by Marjorie Pickthall
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/finis
Enjoyed Finis... reminded me of today's gospel lesson in the Old Testament ( 2 Kings chapter 20... https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/...gs/20?lang=eng ) where Hezekiah is told by the Prophet Isaiah that he will die soon and Hezekiah pleads with the Lord to lengthen his life... it worked !!
"He wakes, who never thought to wake again," - Rupert Brooke The Life Beyond...
https://internetpoem.com/rupert-broo...e-beyond-poem/
The Life Beyond. An emphatic poem!
"In Jerusalem, and I mean within the ancient walls," In Jerusalemby Mahmoud Darwish
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/jerusalem
Ah, to walk in timeless Jerusalem... :)
"Junkies line up by the infant day;" - Yasemin Balandi Forest Hill Station... http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...l-station.html
The map was improved this time by a photograph of Forest Hill station. But couldn't find the poem itself, not even by googling it.
"King David was a sorrowful man:" King David by Walter De La Mare
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ng-david-33418
Weird... Here's the poemKing David... a sweet poem.Quote:
Forest Hill Station (by) Yasemin Balandi
Junkies line up by the infant day;
Insomniac, achnied.
Conductors speak in tongues
Banal, hackneyed.
A graffito declares peace
On the weeping walls
In magenta and peach
Another declares "Love is phat!"
The ceiling above is laced
With pigeon mess
Passengers greet each other
Talk about weather forecast
Our beloved Forest Hill Station:
With your quirks and
Amusing history
(For your tracks were
Water carriers once)
We love you dearly.
"Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown," - Ralph Waldo Emerson Each and All... http://www.eliteskills.com/analysis_...n_analysis.php
Thanks! Loved Forest Station! Emerson´s poem is a gem of beauty and wisdom! Going to look for more by him.
"My granddaddy Silas was born on the Nightingale plantation" I Am Bound for de Kingdom by Marlanda Dekine
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...for-de-kingdom
Sorrowful poem...
"NEGLIGIBLE Old Star." - Gertrude Stein Negligible Old Star...
https://www.poetry-archive.com/s/neg..._old_star.html
Strange poem, but interesting images.
"Our mother gave us a sack of weed killer". Weed Killer by Fiona Tinwei Lam
Tragic poem ! :( Shades of getting dusted by DDT.
"Pythagoras planned it. Why did the people stare?" - W.B. Yeats The Statues... https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/the-statues
Yeats, The Statues: "Empty eyeballs knew/That knowledge increases unreality,/ that/ Mirror on mirror mirrored is all the show."
"Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither, Quicksand years by Walt Whitman
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...and-years-1093
Awesome poem ! Very brief for a master... Especially liked this:Hoping this is not true... "Remorse is memory awake," - Emily Dickinson LXIX / or Remorse is memory awake... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/remo...-memory-awake/Quote:
Only the theme I sing, the great and strong-possess'd soul, eludes not,/One's-self must never give way, that is the final substance, that out of all is sure
Always enjoy Dickinson
Into the silver night - Revelation by Sir Edmund Gosse
https://englishverse.com/poems/revelation
Loved this line: "With food for furry friends" :)
"Jack and Jill went down the hill" - Jay Scott Jack and Jill
... http://satirist.org/poetry/text/me/jack-and-jill.html
Jack and Jill rung a bell with me, so I looked it up:https://allnurseryrhymes.com/jack-and-jill/
"King and Queen of the Pelicans we;"The Pelican Chorus. by Edward Lear
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...n-chorus-23385
Quite delightfulQuote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
Ok when I saw this I just could not resist:
Lingerie - Godiva by Paul Cameron Brown
https://internetpoem.com/paul-camero...n/godiva-poem/
King & Queen... enjoyed :)
Godiva... incredible use of language.
Matsuo Basho -
Moonlight slanting
through the bamboo grove;
a cuckoo crying.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
"Lingerie-Godiva"-original. Moonlight-lovely!
An (for me) unexpected side of a known poet.
"Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes" Oscar Wilde, Sonnet to Liberty
https://englishverse.com/poems/sonnet_to_liberty
A powerful and interesting poem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
Only a line in the paper - Only A Line by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
http://www.ellawheelerwilcox.org/poems/ponlyali.htm
Sonnet to Liberty: "in some things" an interesting way to end the poem.
Only...: "But it meant such desolate years"... so sad.
"Poems are heavenly things," - Susan Coolidge Prelude... https://www.poetrycat.com/susan-coolidge/prelude
Both preceding poems speaking about the power of the written words.
Preludeis a good hands up for distinguishing verses from poems.
Some good questions:
"Quoth the thief to the dog, let me into your door"
The Dog And Thief by Jonathan Swift
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...nd-thief-36081
Both rather enjoyable and rather aptQuote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
Rebellion is my theme all day - The Modern Patriot by William Cowper
https://internetpoem.com/william-cow...-patriot-poem/
The Dog and the Thief Interesting, still a relevant "modern day" fable; the concluding stanza:
"From London they come, silly people to chouse,
Their lands and their faces unknown:
Who'd vote a rogue into the parliament-house,
That would turn a man out of his own?"
The Modern Patriot - This caught me eye: "Who constitutionally pulls / Your house about your ears."
"September rain falls on the house." - Elizabeth Bishop Sestina...
https://staff.washington.edu/rmcnamar/383/bishop.html
Enjoyed both the very opportune rebellion of Cowper and the delicate sensibility of Sestina.
On a more subjective note: "TARRY a while, O Death, I cannot die" The Poet To Death by Sarojini Naidu
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...idu/poems/4571
A bittersweet, lovely poemQuote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
Us two in the room; my dog and me - The Dog by Ivan Turgenev
https://www.poetry-archive.com/t/the_dog.html
The Poet To Death: "dhadikulas" is the bird of time as best I can figure out (laptop very slow today)... delightfully light poem.
The Dog: "in each of us there burns and shines the same trembling spark." - wonderful poem.
"Vultures are holy creatures." - cryptonature (Jarod Anderson)...
https://twitter.com/CryptoNature/sta...92972174381057
Much enjoyed The Dog and pay my respect to the twittered Vultures.
A poet I discovered recently:
"When you open the door, everything falls into place"—In the Lake Region
by Tomas Venclova
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...he-lake-region
Delightful poem... I thought it was going off the rails near the end, but recovered nicely. Enjoyed this bit: "The twins Celsius and Fahrenheit / are predicting spring weather—while a shadow obscures / the past (just like the present)"
"X-ing" - Francie Lynch May 2021 Not X-actly...
https://hellopoetry.com/tag/x/
Enjoyed! "X" poems are always a rarity! Curious to know when you felt that Venclova's poem went off the rails.
" Ye children of the Land of Gold," The Ballad Of Mabel Clare by Henry Lawson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...bel-clare-5249
Zim Zizimi - (of the Soudan of burnt Egypt, - The Soudan, The Sphinxes, The Cup, The Lamp by Victor Hugo
https://readandripe.com/the-soudan-t...y-victor-hugo/
re: Venclova - "Of the black photos, the black headphones
of radio operators, black signatures under documents,
of the unarmed with their frozen pupils—of the prisoner's boot or the trunk
of the refugee?" I dunno, perhaps a reference to war lost my interest for a brief moment.
" Ye children..." - LOL ! : "the song is meant / For singing through the nose."
"Zim Zizimi..." - Long poem. 18 words with "q" in them. Zim, a tragic end.
"A noiseless patient spider," - Walt Whitman A Noiseless Patient Spider...
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...patient-spider
re: Tomas Venclova. A short comment on the poem:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...tomas-venclova
Zim Zizimi- Romantic Victor Hugo
Not all that partial to spiders, but what Walt Whitman made out of it! Enjoyed the delicate poem.
"Be glad your nose is on your face," Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face by Jack Prelutsky
Ah !
Enjoyed "Be glad..." quite amusing :)
"cruelly,love" - e.e. cummings... https://cummings.ee/book/xli-poems/poem/songs-xii/
e.e. cummings- interesting, apocalyptical author!
"Dawn-cool, dew-cool". The Wood-Spring To The Poet by Duncan Campbell Scott
Found your poem here... http://www.public-domain-poetry.com/...the-poet-30733 Incredible poem :)
"Ere yet the warning chimes of midnight sound," - Oliver Wendell Holmes Humboldt's Birthday... https://www.poetrycat.com/oliver-wen...oldts-birthday
Thanks for rescuing the link I forgot to include, Tailor!
'Humboldt's Birthday'-Wonderful poem!
FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony,-JOHN DRYDEN A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687
https://englishverse.com/poems/a_son...ilias_day_1687
Some interesting line structures: " The double double double beat" Enjoyed :)
"Golden-locked Erato, and thou, sweet lute," - Jan Kochanowski Lament Xv... https://internetpoem.com/jan-kochanowski/grave/