Somber poem, enjoyed the poem and analysis :)
"He said:" - Sara Teasdale; The Lighted Window... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ow-53709441997
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Somber poem, enjoyed the poem and analysis :)
"He said:" - Sara Teasdale; The Lighted Window... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ow-53709441997
Beautiful poem with the window of memory lighting a childhood scene.!
"In the green morning"."Ditty of first Desire" by Frederico Garcia Lorca
https://allpoetry.com/Ditty-of-First-Desire
Deceptively simple poem of the dual nature of man... Enjoyed :)
"Jehovah to my words give ear" - John Milton; Psalm V.... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8529873-P...by-John-Milton
Sounds very Old Testament, seeking for justice rather than for mercy.
"KNOW, Trav'ller, in this sweet, sequester'd cell,"."INSCRIPTION FOR THE FRONT OF SINGLETON ABBEY*.
TO MISS MALTHUS'S†, THE BELOVED, THE RESPECTED FRIENDS OF HIS EARLY YOUTH."
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....80-w0280.shtml
A poem of the 3-Graces and 9-Muses for a dear childhood friend... Enjoyed :)
"Leave we the pedants to quarrel and strive," - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Coptic Song... https://allpoetry.com/Coptic-Song
Found this link which contains the original of Goethe's poem plus context and other translation. I think AI from all poetry did it's best but didn't capture the irony of the poem:https://copticliterature.wordpress.c...isches-lied-i/
"Memory of sun seeps from the heart."."Memory of Sun" by Anna Akhmatova
https://allpoetry.com/Memory-Of-Sun
Interesting differences in the 'interpretations of Goethe's poem. The one I chose seems to be from 1853.
Enjoyed the poem and analysis. Don't understand why the following was included: "Maybe it's better I did not become / Your wife."... perhaps echoing desolation ?
"Narrow path sunless temple locust tree" - Wang Wei; Temple Tree Path... https://allpoetry.com/Temple-Tree-Path
The lyrical voice seems to write about a time when she got involved with someone. At the time she maybe wanted to marry him. A more personal memory perhaps among more general ones.?
Beautiful Wang Wei poem.. One difficulty in translating from Chinese, is that the Chinese language seemingly doesn't use articles, prepositions and other words that act as links between the main significants.
"Oranges"."Saturday Paseo:Adelina" by Frederico García Lorca
https://allpoetry.com/Saturday-Paseo:-Adelina
Enjoyed this absence of love :)
"Princess! to envy the fate of a Hebe" - Stephane Mallarme; Futile Petition... https://allpoetry.com/Futile-Petition
Lol ! Poetic elbow aches! Enjoyed!
"Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,"."Song to Diana" by Ben Jonson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-to-diana-2503
Enjoyed the homage to Diana the huntress :)
"Rabbi Ben Levi, on the Sabbath, read" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Of Rabbi Ben Levi - The Wayside Inn - Part First... https://www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=2017
Interesting legend!
"Source of echo"."In Praise of a Shadow" by Ishion Hutchinson
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/praise-shadow
https://theartsdesk.com/books/ishion...t-estrangement
Sorry, fell asleep at keyboard...
Very dense poem of descriptive images... interesting bio too... Enjoyed :)
"The builder who first bridged Niagara’s gorge," - Edwin Markham; Anchored to the Infinite... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...o-the-infinite
Happens all the time with me!
EM-Enjoyed so much this original way of saying that there is a link between humans and God.
"UNWIN, I should but ill repay"."To the Rev. WILLIAM CAWTHORNE UNWIN." by William Cowper
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....94-w0430.shtml
An homage poem... found a summary at AllPoetry: https://allpoetry.com/poem/8465963-T...William-Cowper Enjoyed :)
"Vulcan ! hear your glorious task;" - Thomas Moore; Odes of Anacreon - Ode 4... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/odes-anacreon-ode-4
Thanks for the summary, taylor..
Thomas Moore-Dionisiac celebrations.
"We live free"."Free" by Orhan Veli Kanik
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8580525-F...han-Veli-Kanik
"critique of the illusion of freedom"... Enjoyed :)
"X marks the spot" - Rbeck8262; X Marks the Spot... https://allpoetry.com/poem/18232194-...--by-Rbeck8262
Enjoyed this poem: the treasure always lies ahe
"You did not come, "."A Broken Appointment" by Thomas Hardy
https://www.poetrycat.com/thomas-har...en-appointment
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Sad poem... Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name...
"nothing special" - Zbigniew Herbert; Nothing Special... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8508025-N...igniew-Herbert
Enjoyed the poem. Interesting Polish poet. I liked his sharpness.
"A single flow’r he sent me, since we met."."One Perfect Rose" by Dorothy Parker
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/one-perfect-rose
Lol... I love the snarkyness of Dorothy Parker... Enjoyed :)
"Buffalo Bill's" - e.e. cummimgs; Buffalo Bill's... https://allpoetry.com/Buffalo-Bill%27s
Loved the poem + analysis +good comments by the readers.
"Could -- I do more -- for Thee --"."Could -- I do more -- for Thee --" by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poemine.com/Emily-Dickin...-for-Thee.html
A rather gossipy comment:https://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.c...wert-thou.html
I don't recall seeing that side of Emily :) Enjoyed.
"Dim-berried is the mistletoe" - Walter de la Mare; The Strangers... https://allpoetry.com/The-Strangers
Me neither.
Enjoyed this nativity poem. After reading it, I realized that the winter in Bethlehem is more like our winter, without snow and with temperatures above 10 C.
"EMPERORS and Kings, how oft have temples rung"."EMPERORS and Kings, how oft have temples rung" by William Wordsworth
https://www.poemine.com/William-Word...ples-Rung.html
Unrighteous wars to "Heaven-sanctioned victory, Peace is sprung;" Enjoyed :)
"For all your days prepare," - Edwin Markham; Preparedness... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...9/preparedness
Lol! Very much to the point but easier said than done.
"GOD SAVE OUR GRACIOUS KING. (It seem"."God save the King" by Fay Inchfawn
https://allpoetry.com/God-Save-The-King!
(Sorry for being so late, today. Had to prepare the apartment. I am selling it and people came to take a look)
Great! Hope you get your asking price.
Couldn't access the poem from your link, used https://www.poetrycat.com/fay-inchfa...-save-the-king... Love her commentary within the poem, lol. Enjoyed :)
"Has the bright sun set," - Edwin Markham; Sing a While Longer... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...a-while-longer
Thanks!
Link worked for me. Found the poem on the cat but switched to all poetry because of the summary.
Enjoyed the poem by E M. He has such a concise way of saying what matters?
"I would like to describe the simplest emotion"."I would like to describe" by Zbigniew Herbert.
https://allpoetry.com/I-Would-Like-To-Describe
Enjoyed the otherliness descriptions of emotions... may use this as a guide for my next assignment for Thursdays at Two poetry (Answering/Response to a poem) :)
"June 4th! Do you know what that date means?" - Francis Bret Harte; Her Last Letter: Being a Reply to 'His Answer'... https://allpoetry.com/Her-Last-Lette...7His-Answer%27
"Her last Letter ". The analysis here was very helpful . One buts in in a very personal letter without understanding the facts.Very insightful female perspective.
"Knock with tremor"."Knock with tremor -- " by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poemine.com/Emily-Dickin...th-tremor.html
(Didn't find any decent analysis, only eiteskills)
from https://bookreadfree.com/377390/9282499Quote:
And the one certain letter we have of hers to her father is a letter never sent! It appears in pencil, on a piece of stationery, and on the back of a poem: Knock with tremor—
Paywalled, but allowed this fragment:... https://www.scribd.com/doc/218903367...hanged=EnglishQuote:
This poem by Emily Dickinson expresses the speaker's fear and trembling at the prospect of her ancestors or famous poets of the past, whom she imagines as "Caesars," being present. If they were to ask her "What have you to show?" for her lifetime's achievements, she would have little to offer, like one who trod unthinkingly "on the Foot of Doom." The poem is analyzed by David Preest, who discusses possible interpretations of the "Caesars" referenced and the poet's sense of inadequacy when imagining facing her illustrious predecessors.
"Let the light of late afternoon" - Jane Kenyon; Let Evening Come... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2005/0...y-jane-kenyon/
Interesting data about E D. Another story, where a woman has to tailor her wishes to fit in the situation of a housewife ( with an usually absent husband) and mother. Thanks!
"My heart was full of softening showers,"."My Heart Was Full" by Stevie Smith
https://allpoetry.com/My-Heart-Was-Full
Idyllic poem of youth :) Enjoyed
"Nature, when she made thee, dear," - Ellis Parker Butler; The Daughter Of The Year... https://allpoetry.com/The-Daughter-Of-The-Year
Good comparisons between the seasons and a lady's attributes. Lady not too interested in the owner of the lyric voice ;)
"O my native land !"."O My Native Land(English translation of Urdu poem"Aie Watan") by Tanwir Phool
https://www.poemine.com/Tanwir-Phool...Aie-Watan.html
"Far better than a garden / Is your dust and sand"... Honored poet in his land... Enjoyed :)
"Pick a fern, pick a fern, ferns are high," - Ezra Pound; Pick a Fern... https://voetica.com/poem/1787
Despondent, but loved this work routine poem. Love E P
"Quick through the gates of Fairyland"."Early Spring" by Fay Inchfawn
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8563023-E...y-Fay-Inchfawn
Love this poem :) Used it for reading a poem by another author at our last Thursdays at Two poetry meeting:
Quote:
Poem by another poet: Early Spring by Fay Inchfawn
Elizabeth Rebecca Ward (December 2, 1880 – April 16, 1978) - (Fay Inchfawn) “was a prolific English writer of popular verse, religious works, and works for children, writing under the pen-name Fay Inchfawn. Her works were serialised in women's magazines, and she was sometimes known as "The Poet Laureate of the Home". - Wikipedia
Quick through the gates of Fairyland
The South Wind forced his way.
'Twas his to make the Earth forget
Her grief of yesterday.
"'Tis mine," cried he, "to bring her joy!"
And on his lightsome feet
In haste he slung the snowdrop bells,
Pushed past the Fairy sentinels,
And out with laughter sweet.
Clear flames of Crocus glimmered on
The shining way he went.
He whispered to the trees strange tales
Of wondrous sweet intent,
When, suddenly, his witching voice
With timbre rich and rare,
Rang through the woodlands till it cleft
Earth's silent solitudes, and left
A Dream of Roses there!
Word Can poem 3/6/2025: Wave, think, pattern, thistle, farmyard, epiphany, ladder, heat, tabulate
In a farmyard far from home
I wandered in the heat of day
Past a copse of thistles stomped down by cows
I found a ladder near a trough
And whilst I stooped to drink
An orb spider’s web caught my eye
At least that’s what I thought it was
I marveled at the web’s intricacies
A moiré pattern that shimmered in hypnotic waves
And I received an epiphany of sorts
That spiders are much better at math than I
The sums they must tabulate
3/6/2025
Assignment for 3/20/2025 Living in a different time
Living in a different time
If I were to live in any another time
I might wish to live without rhyme,
But reason I would have in abundance
And oh, how I would love to dance.
Free thinking would be my favorite art,
The music of nature would grace my heart:
Warblings and titterings and calls
Of feathered free flying beings, and alls
That creep or crawl or swim in their spheres,
Beneficial creatures of which I'd have no fears.
I'd learn the language of all beings in the land,
But most especially that of cats to understand
Why they stare at walls and/or swish their tails.
I'd ponder the poetry of deep sea whales
Who seek council with the denizens of the abyss
And compare with that of the strident starkness
Of eagles as they course through the heavens
Counting coup in their bases of elevens and sevens.
The lamb would lay down with the lion,
And all of existence would be like Zion.
3/19/2025
Where I play: http://www.online-literature.com/for...mes-amp-Contes
My Padlet: https://padlet.com/tailorstately/kn9o45weuso
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"Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn," - Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell; Sonnet - In February... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ry-69999174358
What a coincidence!
Enjoyed your poems. Wondering if your different time could be a possibility!
Lovely spring poem!
"Sweet poet of the woods—-a long adieu!"."Sonnet Vll :Sweet poet of the woods" by Charlotte Smith
https://allpoetry.com/Sonnet-VII:-Sw...t-of-the-Woods
re: time... absolutely.
Enjoyed the sight rhyme ending the last 2-lines, and the poem :)
"The moon shears up on Tahoe now:" - Edwin Markham; The Panther... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...62/the-panther
:)
The Panther -impressive poem!
"Up! Everything that God has made,"."Up! Everything that God has made" by Hans Adolph Brorson
https://www.poemine.com/Hans-Adolph-...-has-made.html