Wonderful form poem by DP; each stanza with two admonitions to her dog in the midst of high praise, lol. Enjoyed :)
"The smell of freshly cut lawns" - Paul Warren; The Lost Sixties... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-lost-sixties/
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Wonderful form poem by DP; each stanza with two admonitions to her dog in the midst of high praise, lol. Enjoyed :)
"The smell of freshly cut lawns" - Paul Warren; The Lost Sixties... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-lost-sixties/
Beautiful nostalgic poem by Paul Warren!
"Up from the meadows rich with corn,"."Barbara Frietchie" by John Greenleaf Whittier
https://www.poetrycat.com/john-green...bara-frietchie
Touching poem of a dubious event during the U.S. American Civil War... enjoyed :)
"Voice of the Holy Spirit, making known" - John Greenleaf Whittier; The Word... https://www.poetrycat.com/john-green...ttier/the-word
A very religious poem by J G W.
"Wind, just arisen -"."Dawn Wind" by Lola Ridge
https://allpoetry.com/Dawn-Wind
https://mypoeticside.com/poets/lola-ridge-poems
"I am too old to play with you, / Eternal Child." Enchanting poem... :)
A rather complex poet: "... an active feminist who contributed regularly to Marxist-based publications and her behaviour often bordered on anarchy. She was a great supporter of lost causes..."
By a poet with 'x' in their name:
"you gave me a black silk chicken" - Xi Xi; Black Silk Chicken, translated by Jennifer Feeley... https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org...-chicken-xi-xi
Poem gave me the creeps, here the poor black hens are often used for black magi
"You brothers, who are mine,".«Lonesome Night" by Hermann Hesse
https://www.poetrycat.com/hermann-hesse/lonesome-night
Black hens=Culture shock
"Give me my welcome back." - Perhaps rejecting the invitation to join the downtrodden... more analysis here: https://allpoetry.com/Lonesome-Night
"Zombie, zombie, who were you?" - A lost soul; Zombie, zombie?... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/670534/zombie-zombie/
re Hesse: Couldn't find a written version of the German original. Only one audio which I can play only tomorrow.
Zombie, Zombie-Lost Soul not in the best frame of mind.But congrats for one more Z poem.
And sometimes I am sorry when the grass" ."Peace" by Patrick Kavanagh
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8507381-P...trick-Kavanagh
"Out of that childhood country what fools climb / To fight with tyrants Love and Life and Time?"... alas conscription would denude the countryside of laborers and dreamers. Enjoyed the poem however...
""Bring out your dead!" The midnight street" - John Greenleaf Whittier; The Female Martyr... https://www.poetrycat.com/john-green...-female-martyr
Hermann Hesse-Found the written original. As I suspected your poetic sensibility detected a translation problem:"Gebt mir meinen Gruss zurück."≈"Return me my welcome."
Dark poem!
"Come forth, you workers!"." Reveille" by Lola Ridge
https://www.poetrycat.com/lola-ridge/reveille
Cry of the revolutionary... Enjoyed :)
"Dark frost was in the air without," - Walter de la Mare; Winter Dusk... https://allpoetry.com/Winter-Dusk
Taylor,I'm very sorry, this is one more of my confusions. I thought you had stopped posting in this thread because of your illness and was waiting for you to resume.
Beautiful domestic scene, liked the contrast between the spectre, (probably the husband and father) and the family group.
"Every day". "Mindful" by Mary Oliver
https://www.poetrycat.com/mary-oliver/mindful
https://interestingliterature.com/20...dful-analysis/
Enjoyed both the poem and the analysis... Joy and wisdom in the everyday :)
"Four Princesses lived in a Green Tower" - Kate Greenaway; The Four Princesses... https://www.poetrycat.com/kate-green...our-princesses
Charming poem! Enjoyed! KG has a special way with poems for children.
"Good-bye, my song--I, who found words for sorrow,"The Broken Lute" by Theodosia Garrison
https://www.poetrycat.com/theodosia-...he-broken-lute
"My lips are all for laughter and for kisses. / Good-bye, my song." Too busy for song, lol... Glad poem, enjoyed :)
"Heavenly Archer, bend thy bow;" - Walter de la Mere; Dust to Dust... https://classicalpoets.org/2021/08/3...er-de-la-mare/
Enjoyed the poem and the explanation, but my interpretation of the last line is different because of the title of The poem.
"In the deserted, moon-blanched street,".«A Summer Night" by Matthew Arnold
https://www.poetrycat.com/matthew-arnold/a-summer-night
Found this at AllPoetry: https://allpoetry.com/A-Summer-Night for a summary. Full of metaphors for men in prisons of their own making whether on land or sea, yet hope remains; the final strophe: "A world above man's head, to let him see / How boundless might his soul's horizons be, / How vast, yet of what clear transparency! / How it were good to live there, and breathe free; / How fair a lot to fill / Is left to each man still! "... enjoyed :)
"Jagg'd mountain peaks and skies ice-green" - Walter de la Mare; Brueghel's Winter... https://allpoetry.com/Brueghel's-Winter
Beautiful winter scenery ¡
"Kakapo, Whiskers Long;" "-Kakapo's Wishes" by Leaf Star
https://www.poetry.com/poem/62185/kakapo's-wishes.
https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/nativ...ds-a-z/kakapo/
Sad poem of exploitation of a flightless bird... As of September 2024, there were 244 kākāpō alive, a loss of 8 in two years :(
"Let there be light!" God spake of old," - John Greenleaf Whittier; The Library... https://www.poetrycat.com/john-green...er/the-library
re Kakapo: so sad.
Enjoyed the poem about the library but think humans are changing again.
"Mirrors are not more silent"." To a Cat" by Jorge Luis Borges
https://www.poetrycat.com/jorge-luis-borges/to-a-cat
Wonderful poem! Found some analyses here: https://eliteskills.com/c/17572
"Not of the seething cities with their swarming human hives," - Emily Pauline Johnson; Calgary Of The Plains... https://allpoetry.com/Calgary-Of-The-plains
Found that too. But Eliteskills is still inventing verses to "improve" the original poems..
Enjoyed very much the poem and the poet with Indio roots.
"Oft, as he jogs along the Winding-Way,"."Cross-Roads" by William Arthur Dunkerley
https://www.poetrycat.com/william-ar...ey/cross-roads
Short and to the point :)
"paying no heed" - Kobayashi Issa; paying no heed... http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...g-no-heed.html
Enjoyed Issa's poem specially at a heat of over 30C.
A poet with name starting with Q. Some typos but one can feel the beauty of the poem.
"Soft breeses, mild sunshine,sring is still young."."To the Tune of Bodhisattiva Aliens" by Li Qingzhao
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/tune...sattiva-aliens
Enjoyed, "It is difficult to enjoy spring flowers. / The west wind is still too cold. "... hoping for an early, albeit moderate, spring to follow our moderate winter :)
"Ring out the bells of heaven!" - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; Ring The Bells... https://allpoetry.com/Ring-The-Bells
Hoping for a mild Autumn after a very hot Summer
Enjoyed the hymn and the analysis.
"Some one came knocking"."Some One" by Walter de la Mare.
https://allpoetry.com/Some-One
Enjoyed Walter's poem... I've been reading more and more of his poetry :)
Here's another...
"The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair" - Walter de la Mare; Summer Evening... https://allpoetry.com/poem/13934870-...ter-de-la-Mare
Charming idyllic poem. Analysis ran amok.
Another de la Mare poem:
"Upon a bank, easeless with knobs of gold," ."Gloria Mundi" by Walter de la Mare
https://allpoetry.com/Gloria-Mundi
A poem of despair... enjoyed.
"Very old are the woods;" - Walter de la Mare; All That's Past... https://allpoetry.com/All-That's-Past
Beautiful poem about the aging world.
One more:
"When Susan's work was done, she'd sit"."Old Susan" by Walter de la Mare
https://allpoetry.com/Old-Susan
Enjoyed :)
Poem by an author whose name has an 'x' in it:
"Every morning a farewell, crying into my hair." - Yu Xuanji; Admiring Willows... https://www.cn-poetry.com/yuxuanji-p...g-willows.html
Enjoyed so much the poem by Yu Xuagy and the whole collection of Chinese poetry! :)
"You break school,"."Bad Kid" by Orhan Veli Kanik
https://allpoetry.com/Orhan-Veli-Kanik
Found your poem here: https://allpoetry.com/Bad-Kid I disagree with the AI this time... I think a good child is afraid to be tempted beyond the child's sensibilities... been there.
A poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:
"At twilight one ev'ning, a poor old man," - Zebulon Rudulph; The Surprise... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-surprise-3/
re: Sorry, posted bio link. I understand your take. Curiously for me the poem has an ironic almost tender ring as if the bad kid, wasn't after all, so bad. Different experiences in the background
Enjoyed your poem with the twist at the end. And the unusual name of the poet.
"Avoid the reeking herd,"."The Eagle and the Mole" by Elinor Wylie
https://allpoetry.com/The-Eagle-and-the-Mole
Interesting poem... to "be in the world, but not of the world"... Enjoyed :)
"Beneath the low-hung night cloud" - John Greenleaf Whittier; The Three Bells... https://www.poetrycat.com/john-green...he-three-bells
Site got unstable last evening while l was posting. Managed the other games, but no way of posting Alphabetical.
Impressive balĺad!
"Crass rays streaming from the vestibules;" "Flotsam" by Lola Ridge
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8520259-F...-by-Lola-Ridge
Same here...
Wonderful poetic language throughout !!! "Nothing to guess at… / Save the darkness above / Crouching like a great cat." Enjoy so much :)
"Dry August burned. A harvest hare" - Walter de la Mare; Dry August Burned... https://allpoetry.com/poem/14327793-...ter-de-la-Mare
Enjoyed the insightful description of the changing emotions of the girl.
"Even in the cave of the night when you"."Waking at 3 a. m." by William Stafford
https://allpoetry.com/Waking-at-3-a.m.
Ah, the '.' got truncated at the end of the link again. https://allpoetry.com/Waking-at-3-a.m.
Enjoyed the poem of late night waking and all that goes with it. :)
"Flee into some forgotten night and be" - Walter de la Mare; The Tryst... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8494457-T...ter-de-la-Mare
Sorry :(. Will have to check on the links when posting.
The Tryst- All very fine and romantic, but the verse that talks about the judgement spoils it all!
"God speaks to each of us before we are,". "God Speaks To Each Of Us" by Rainer Maria Rilke
https://allpoetry.com/God-Speaks-To-Each-Of-Us#