Enjoyed the dog poem and the link... If "dogs write poetry." what then of cats ? :)
"Even on the smallest islands," - Kobayashi Issa; Even on the smallest islands... https://www.best-poems.net/kobayashi...t_islands.html
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Enjoyed the dog poem and the link... If "dogs write poetry." what then of cats ? :)
"Even on the smallest islands," - Kobayashi Issa; Even on the smallest islands... https://www.best-poems.net/kobayashi...t_islands.html
Lol!
Enjoyed Kobayashi Issa's Haiku
"Fine apricot was cut for the roofbeam,"."Fine Apricot Lodge" by Wang Wei
https://www.best-poems.net/wang_wei/...cot_lodge.html
Loved this delicate poem; found an illuminating interpretation: https://allpoetry.com/Fine-Apricot-Lodge :)
"Go and catch a falling star," - John Donne; Song: Go and catch a falling star... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/s...-falling-star/
Well, Donne's poem starts so nicelly, but he obviously wasn’t in a good day.
"How still, how happy! Those are words"."How still, how happy!" by Emily Bronte
https://originalpoems.com/poem?id=3298
https://super-essay.com/essays/liter...ill-how-happy/
Lol...
Brrrr... the summary adds to what I had surmised nicely; a summary of Winter... Enjoyed :)
"In the still, star-lit night," - Elizabeth Stoddard; "In the still, star-lit night... https://www.litscape.com/author/Eliz...Lit_Night.html
"Star lit Night" Enjoyed that ghostly poem!
"Just for joy, take from my palms"."Just for joy, take from my palms" by Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
https://allpoetry.com/-Just-for-joy,...from-my-palms-
Interesting poem of bees and joy... enjoyed :)
"Katie had the grand eyes and Delia had a way with her," - Theodosia Garrison; Sheila... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...n/sheila-16154
Poor Sheila!
"Like Rain it sounded till it curved"."Like Rain it sounded till it curved" by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poemine.com/Emily-Dickin...it-curved.html
https://www.litcharts.com/poetry/emi...20or%20feeling.
Very expressive poem, and the other link a wonderful resource for summary... Enjoyed so much! :)
"Majestic King of storms! around" - Susanna Moodie; Winter... https://www.tercul.com/en/works/wint...c-e74ed2b7e078
Enjoyed this powerful winter poem at 29º C!
"Mrs Moon"."Mrs Moon" by Roger McGough
https://www.poemine.com/Roger-McGough/Mrs-Moon.html
84° F, a nice spring day :)
Delightful depiction of Mrs. Moon... Enjoyed :)
"No slight caprice rules thee. -- Who sounds one note" - Anne Whitney; No slight caprice rules thee. -- Who sounds one note... https://www.litscape.com/author/Anne..._One_Note.html
Serene poem. Enjoyed!
"O lightly moored the lilies lie,". "On Quiet Waters" by Celia Thaxter
https://www.litscape.com/author/Celi...et_Waters.html
Lovely pastoral... enjoyed :)
"Poets should not reason:" - John Boyle O'Reilly; The Useless Ones... https://allpoetry.com/The-Useless-Ones
"The Useless Ones.." Wonderful poem about the poem as a song! Agree 90% as I also love experimental poetry!
A poet with "Q" in his name:
"My son places his paint box in front of me"."A Lesson In Drawing" by Nizar Qabbani
https://allpoetry.com/A-Lesson-In-Drawing
A harsh reality, stark in its poignancy... incredible poem.
"Rise, lovers, that we may go towards heaven; we have seen this" - Rumi; Rise, lovers, that we may go towards heaven; we have seen this... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-24418
Powerful images has Rumi's poem.
"Stately, kindly, lordly friend,"To a Cat". by Charles Algernon Swinburne
https://www.poetrycat.com/algernon-c...burne/to-a-cat
Love it without reading the poem :) :) ... "a friend of loftier mind... More of heaven's deep heart than we." :)
"The hope I dreamed of was a dream," - Christina Georgina Rossetti; Mirage... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/mirage-51033791758
Without reading it?? Link worked alright!
"Mirage" Such a sad poem! Maybe a change of scene this end of the year might be good. Traveling a bit, seeing different people than the usual one..., visiting a different church-building...
"Unto a broken heart"."Unto a broken heart" by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poemine.com/Emily-Dickin...ken-heart.html
Lololol!... I did read the poem and enjoyed very much ! What enamored me was the run on sentence of " "Stately, kindly, lordly friend, "To a Cat" "... from that I knew the poem would be special to Me :)
Enjoyed your advice for those burdened with waking from a dream within a dream - where hope is a featherless bird (antithetical to Emily's poem Hope is the thing with feathers). Which leads us to your offering of a poem by Emily Unto a broken heart; a lengthy summary with a context I hadn't thought of which includes some other poems by Emily: https://academic.oup.com/litimag/art...20?login=false
"Voice of our Century, whose heart is broken," - Robert Norwood; Voice of the Twentieth Century... https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/cont...ntieth-century
Lol. Of course Stately poems are very welcome on this thread, same with cat poems.And Stately cat poems are the cherries on the cake!
Enjoyed the comments on ED's poem. I was thinking of very personal horror. The war didn't occur to me.
"Voice of our Century". So up to date!
"Well, honest John, how fare you now at"."To John Clare" by John Clare
https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/john-clare#0
A poem written to/about the poet while incarcerated in an asylum... enjoyed :)
"X-ray my heart tonight" - Feel; My Xavier... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1245681/my-xavier/
"You are my constant confusion".Oh my.! Enjoyed this almost
"You begin this way": "You Begin" by Margaret Atwood
https://www.poetrycat.com/margaret-atwood/you-begin
https://poemanalysis.com/margaret-atwood/you-begin/
"almost" - lol
Enjoyed both the poem and the analysis :)
"Zoom, Zoom, Zoom" - Not attributed; Zoom Zoom, We’re Going to the Moon”... https://allnurseryrhymes.com/zoom-zo...g-to-the-moon/
"Zoom, Zoom, Zoom " Nice song!
"A poem should be palpable and mute".Ars Poet by Archibald MacLeis
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...68/ars-poetica
Interesting Ars Poetica... found this summary: https://www.litcharts.com/poetry/arc...sh/ars-poetica ... Enjoyed :)
"Beside the crystal well she stood," - Rose Hartwick Thorpe; The Luck Of Muncaster. / A legend of merrie England... https://www.litscape.com/author/Rose...Muncaster.html
Thanks for the analysis on Ars Poetica.A poem shouldn´t be obvious?
Lol! "The Luck Of Muncaster" - All is well that ends well! Enjoyed!
"Choose your obsessions"."Choose your obsessions..." by Siddharth Anand
https://www.poemine.com/Siddharth-An...bsessions.html
"And after the tsunami / You wonder why you were destroyed / By; your own army". Enjoyed this poem by the nearly 40yr old poet :)
"Drop, drop, splash, splash," - Edith L. M. King; Thunder at Night... https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/thunder-night
"Drop, drop, splash, splash," Short, sharp and exactly fitting the weather today (not much thunder and lighting as yet, but summer is around the corner.
"The eyes of toads are great" "The eyes of toads are great" by Blodgett, E. D.
https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/cont...ds-are-great#0
Lol, a paradox indeed... enjoyed :)
"Father calls me William, sister calls me Will," - Eugene Field; Jest 'Fore Christmas...
https://www.litscape.com/author/Euge...Christmas.html
"Jest 'Fore Christmas..." -Cute Christmas poem and I´m always glad when I understand all the dialect.
"Glass was the Street -- in tinsel Peril"."Glass was the Street -- in tinsel Peril" by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poemine.com/Emily-Dickin...sel-Peril.html
https://sites.udel.edu/mcses2012/papers/paper-iii/
Enjoyed very much the poem and the treatise on Emily's room/windows/home and her perspective :)
"HEAR the sledges with the bells —" - Edgar Allan Poe; The Bells... https://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/bellsg.htm
Loved the bell poem.I think that what is called the idiosyncratic rhythm of the poem is that poe makes the poembitself chime, lighter the merrier stands, heavier the sadder or full of horror ones.
"I bless you, forests, valleys, fields, mountains, waters,"."I bless you, forests" by Tolstoy
https://allpoetry.com/Aleksey-Konstantinovich-Tolstoy
Wonderful poem by Tolstoy... it may be the first poem from him that I have read... Enjoyed :)
"Just a drowned woman, with death-draggled hair" - John Payne; Quia Multum Amavit... https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/cont...-multum-amavit
I think it is my first Tolstoy poem, too.
A sad narrative in poem form, about the drowned woman and her children. The title refers to the New Testament, where Magdalen is forgiven because she "loved so much".
"karenina,"."karenina" by Regina Elliot
https://www.poetry.com/poem/159037/karenina
"steps lithe amidst / the stars. / karenina, of the / infinite,"... enjoyed :)
"Let those who are in favour with their stars" - William Shakespeare; Sonnet XXV... https://www.poemine.com/William-Shak...onnet-XXV.html
Fully enjoyed the Shakespeare Sonnet. :)
"Mother,". " River" by Shuntaro Tanikawa
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/river-74/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuntar%C5%8D_Tanikawa
Wonderful tender poem. I see he passed on just last month :( Enjoyed :)
"Night is over the park, and a few brave stars" - Sara Teasdale; Swans... https://poets.org/poem/swans
There is so much beauty and magic in "Swans". :)
"Of Old Sat Freedom". Alfred Tennyson, "Of Old Sat Freedom".
https://www.poemine.com/Alfred-Tenny...t-Freedom.html
In praise of Lady Freedom... enjoyed :)
"Poets are such bad employers," - Jay Macpherson; Poets & Muses... https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/poets-muses
"Poets & Muses...". Lol! Charming poem about poetry not being practical!
A poem by a poet with "Q" in his name:
"One tree. Another tree". "Trees" by Ai Qing
https://lorenwebster.net/2024/02/24/...elected-poems/