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Enjoyed this spiritual poem very much :)
A long run-on poem, albeit enjoyable:
"Vauvenargues says that in public gardens there are alleys haunted principally by thwarted" - Charles Baudelaire; The Widows... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...re/widows-8921
Enjoyed Baudelaire's text, but i would hesitate to call it a poem.
"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;"."Gitanjali 35" by Rabindranath Tagore
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/gitanjali-35
I see your point...
Found a summary of Tagore's poem: https://www.enotes.com/topics/where-...r-gitanjali-35... Enjoyed :)
"X-Marks-the-Spot is a tickling game" - Ilene Bauer; X-Marks-the-Spot... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/x-ma...e-spot_1704026
Thanks for the summary of Gitanjaly 35.
Charming "X" poem
"You call authority "a grievous thing.". "To a rebellious daughter " by Fay Inchifawn.
https://allpoetry.com/To-A-Rebellious-Daughter
Enjoyed the interaction between mother and wannabe free daughter who can't imagine her mother being as she is in an earlier time. :)
"Zebra stripes move and shift," - matt at shadow of iris; Zebra Stripes, a poem... https://www.shadowofiris.com/zebra-stripes-poem/
Enjoyed the zebra poem.
"Across the town the evening bell is ringing;"."The House - Mother" by Fay Inchfawn
https://www.poetrycat.com/fay-inchfawn/the-house-mother
A sweet prayer by a maid left home whilst her employers/owners go to church to worship :)
"Behind yellow windows shadows drink hot tea." - Alfred Lichtenstein; Winter Evening... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-lic...oogle_vignette
I suspect it is not the maid but the housewife.
Loved the sensorial images.
"Come swish around, my pretty punk,"."Drunken Man's Praise Of Sobriety by William Butler Yeats
https://www.poetrycat.com/william-bu...se-of-sobriety
A poem on sobriety and drunkenness... enjoyed :)
"Dim-berried is the mistletoe" - Walter de la Mare; Before Dawn... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8494387-B...ter-de-la-Mare
Last night site got wonky again. I was able to post the shorter answers, but when I got to alphabetical, the site was down?
Interesting Christmas scenes that reminds one that the winter in Bethlehem is much warmer than in the Northerm Hemisphere
"Ever restless, ever toiling" ."Sea Margins.by Walter R. Cassels
https://www.poetrycat.com/walter-r-cassels/sea-margins
https://allpoetry.com/Sea-Margins
Same here.
Somber poem of the ocean; the analysis at AllPoetry reinforced my perceptions... Enjoyed :)
"Flower in the crannied wall," - Alfred Tennyson; Flower In The Crannied Wall... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-ten...-crannied-wall
Enjoyed this philosophical poem!
"Sunrise On The Coast" by Andrew Barton Paterson
"Grey dawn on the sand-hills, the night wind has drifted"
https://allpoetry.com/Sunrise-on-the-Coast
"Behold, 'tis that marvel, the birth of a day!" ... Enjoyed :)
"How deep the April night is in its noon," - Archibald Lampman; April Night... https://www.poetrycat.com/archibald-lampman/april
As one from a country that doesn't know the yearly experience of nature falling asleep and waking up again I deeply enjoyed this poem. So much that here is another by the same poet:
"If any man, with sleepless care oppressed,""Sleep" by Archibald Lampman
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8473617-S...hibald-Lampman
Interesting poem... an artist crafting "An image of sweet sleep in carven stone,", a maiden of perfect aspect "More sweet and slight than any mortal maid." Enjoyed :)
"J" poems are now becoming "as scarce as hens teeth"... hmmm...
"Just after you sign and envision building homes on" - Arthur Sze; Jaguar Song... https://poets.org/poem/jaguar-song
My problem is "k". I suggest we proceed like with "Q", "X" and "Z" and look of authors with the looked for letter in their names.
Jaguar Song- strong poem about force and fear.
"Knoledge, acquayntance, resort, fauour with grace;"."Knoledge, acquayntance, resort, fauour with grace" by John Skelton
https://allpoetry.com/Knoledge,-Acqu...our-With-Grace
An English that is as artful as the poetry of the period... Enjoyed :)
"Leodogran, the King of Cameliard," - Alfred Tennyson; The Coming Of Arthur... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-ten...ming-of-arthur
I love the legends of the round table. DIdnt know or remember all this controversy about Arthur's birth. Didn’t think that the round table was a symbol of unification of smaller kingdoms into a bigger one.
"March is slain; the keen winds fly"."God-Speed To The Snow" by Archibald Lampman
https://www.poetrycat.com/archibald-...ed-to-the-snow
"Go, kind snow, God-speed to thee!"... amen. So grateful we had a very mild Winter in the Gold Country... Enjoyed :)
"Now it is nearly time when, quivering on its stem," - Charles Baudelaire; The Harmony Of Evening... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-ba...ony-of-evening
Beautiful Baudelaire poem!
"Oh to be idle loving idleness!"."Sonnet IX" by Fernando Pessoa
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8543633-S...ernando-Pessoa
A poem of internalized torment... sad. Enjoyed
"Pale season, watcher in unvexed suspense," - Archibald Lampman; April... https://www.poetrycat.com/archibald-lampman/april
Enjoyed so much! I like how Lampman writes about nature and the passing seasons.
A poem by a poet with "Q" in his name
"There is still the wind that I remember"."Street in Agrigentum" by Salvatore Quasimodo
https://allpoetry.com/Street-in-Agrigentum
One of the sites of the 1st Punic wars in Sicily according to Wikipedia. Enjoyed :)
"Rose, on this terrace fifty years ago," - Alfred Tennyson; The Roses On The Terrace... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-ten...on-the-terrace
Beautiful poem! Liked the way the colors were used.
"Shall we, too, rise forgetful from our sleep"."Love And Death" by Sara Teasdale
https://allpoetry.com/Love-And-Death
Odd, that page captured my cursor comet like in blue as my mouse moved... perhaps an April Fools' prank :)
Pondering eternity... the answer yes :)
"The old Pig said to the little pigs," - Walter de la Mare; The Pigs and the Charcoal-burner... https://allpoetry.com/The-Pigs-and-the-Charcoal-burner
All poetry page suddenly all in color!
Aaiii! for the pigs.
"Unless I learn to ask no help"."Lessons" by Sara Teasdale
https://www.poetrycat.com/sara-teasdale/lessons
A poem in recognition of a higher power... perhaps acknowledging a plan :)
"Visions of the years gone by" - Susanna Moodie; The Deluge... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ge-97822758615
The Deluge-this poem has become so up to date.
"Without horror you devour dead flesh every day."Reflecting upon a Human Lung in Alcohol" by Alfred Lichtenstein
https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-lic...ung-in-alcohol
The title appears to have no connection to the poem, but the poem comes forth from viewing the title subject, hence pondering how the first human to kill an animal must have felt... existence. An analysis at AllPoetry: https://allpoetry.com/Reflecting-Upo...ung-In-Alcohol
"one by one, they die" - Sheng Xing; fish doctor... https://www.poetryinternational.com/...72_FISH-DOCTOR
Thanks for the analysis! I felt the same about the title. It seems to be there to attract the reader with his oddnes.But on further reflection, the lung is also an organ that is there to nourish the human body with air. On the whole, the poem seems to want to awake the readers consciousness of mankind 's inherent predatoryness. For humans also pollute the air that they breathe though ostensibly the poem isn't about that. But your Shen Xing poem is about the pollution of the water. Enjoyed!
"Yesterday I still went powdered and addicted". "Ash Wednesday" by Alfred Lichtenstein
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8584919-A...d-Lichtenstein
Trying to reconcile the title with Ash Wednesday's observance... Ash Wednesday observance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday In the context of the end of the poem: "A forest has many individual trees. / There's nothing more to cry about. / There's nothing more to scream about. / Where am I--" perhaps the melancholy of days leading up to our Savior crucified - being hung on a "tree" of many trees... but the analysis on AllPoetry goes into another direction... dunno. Enjoyed :)
"Across ten thousand miles of cerulean blue," - Wang Zhiguo; ABA ABOVE THE CLOUDS*... https://modernchinesepoetry.com/poems.php#Wang_Zhiguo
Thanks for the link. I think perhaps the end of the poem is related to a sort of emptiness that follows the intense frolics of Carnival and wich in its turn mirrors
the emptiness and uncertainty of second world War,where Lichtenstein fought as soldier.
Wow. A beautiful Tibetan poem, the first of our collection! Very interesting collection of modern Chinese poetry, influenced by modern life and probably too by western poetry.
"A man and a woman —"."SAME OLD STORY" by Rong Rong
https://modernchinesepoetry.com/poems.php#Rong%20Rong
Interesting comparison between a relationship between a man and a woman and a car wreck... Enjoyed :)
"Birds' love and birds' song" - Alfred Tennyson; Spring... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-tennyson/spring
A light and cheerful Spring poem!
"Come all you little rouseabouts and climb upon my knee;"."Saltbush Bill On The Patriarchs" by Andrew Barton Paterson
https://allpoetry.com/Saltbush-Bill-on-the-Patriarchs
Wonderful rendition of a biblical event... Enjoyed also the summary at AllPoetry :)
"Der noble Ritter Hugo" - Charles G. Leland; Ballad... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8589203-B...Godfrey-Leland
Lololol mocking the English spelling of the Germans!
"Elysium is as far as to"."Elysium is as far as to" by Emily Dickinson
https://allpoetry.com/poem/14326786-...mily-Dickinson
A poem of anticipation... a friend awaits :) Enjoyed.
"Fat trains go down loud tracks" - Alfred Lichtenstein; The Trip to the Mental Hospital... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-lic...ental-hospital
A very typical German Expressionismus poem:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ...er%20conflicts.
."Go, words of mine! and if you live"."Epilogue" by Abram Joseph Ryan
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8590953-E...am-Joseph-Ryan
Thanx for the wiki link !
Enjoyed... The hopes of a poet that their words may live on, if only for a day.
Hoping we haven't used this poem; my laptop is down and am using a desktop computer with none of my notes...
"HARK! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings," - William Shakespeare; Aubade... https://englishverse.com/poems/aubade
Not that I remember! Sweet poem!
"I've always been a seeker of the city,"."Seeking the Crowd I Walk" by Sakutara Hagiwara
https://allpoetry.com/Seeking-The-Crowd,-I-Walk