Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Still not on my laptop... cable has arrived but my car has been down since Thursday so I can not get it for a few hours... hoping the cable is the only problem. Car is in the shop for warranty repair of my electronic steering... cost me upwards of $3000.00 USD last time when it first went out in February.

Wonderful ! Needed a poem on community for our Thursday at Two poetry group for 4/17/2025 and this "fills the bill"... may use one line of the poem for an acrostic Golden shovel (need a 9-word line from the poem, maybe: "The waves' whereabouts are whisked off over the horizon.")... Enjoyed :)

A poem by a poet with the letter 'J' in their name:

"On cool and inviting bamboo mat and pillow" - Jiang Kui; On Red Lotus Petals... https://www.cn-poetry.com/jiangkui-p...us-petals.html

Since yesterday Mercury is going forward again, so issues repairs should prosper. Having a bad issue in the kitchen, water is leaking somewhere behind the sink, a bad place because the sink in L is glued to the walls.

Glad the poem will be useful for your meeting.


A poem by a poet with "k" in its name:

"A butterfly —"."A Butterfly" by Ķaga no Chiyo
https://allpoetry.com/Kaga-no-Chiyo

Finally! Laptop power cable arrived and is snug in the receptacle... but no joy... Ordered battery for laptop... electronic steering assembly should arrive at the car dealership today: hoping for a quick and expert repair. Pray your water leak is attended with expertise and with minimal time, damage, and charges.

Enjoyed this poem but for this: "you also get mad / some days."... I cannot imagine a butterfly being angry.

"Let me be monosyllabic to-day, O Lord." - Carl Sandburg; Monosyllabic... https://allpoetry.com/Monosyllabic

Thanks! Repair matters are never so easy or so cheap. Hope that specially your car gets fixed quickly as you depend so much on it. I haven't got a plumber as yet.

Well,I can imagine an angry butterfly. There would be a lot of fluttering.

Enjoyed Sandburgs poem,but didn't think the analysis so complete.i think there are two contrasting situations.

"My green aquarium of phantom fish,"The Reef" by Aldous Leonard Huxley
https://allpoetry.com/The-Reef

After I made my last post here I got a call that my car was done and got a ride to pick it up, getting there 10 minutes before closing... so happy it looks like I never logged off.

Incredible poem by AH... The summary help... Enjoyed :)

"No, helpless thing, I cannot harm thee now;" - Anna Lætitia Barbauld; The Caterpillar... https://allpoetry.com/The-Caterpillar

Congrats! Is it electric (you wrote that you changed the battery)?
Enjoyed the caterpillar poem very much!

"Oh I am wild—wild"."Sale of Souls" by Adah Isaacs Menken
https://allpoetry.com/Sale-Of-Souls

Thanx. No, my car is not electric unfortunately... I've ordered the inner battery for my laptop... evidently when the battery can no longer hold a charge the laptop will not work even when plugged in.

The sale of souls... heart wrenching. Enjoyed.

"Poison of asps is under our lips ?" - Rudyard Kipling; Poison Of Asps... https://mail.poetic-love.net/publicd....php?pdid=5616

Found some notes to this curious Kipling poem: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rea...rg_poison1.htm

Poem by a poet with "q" in his name.
"Friend, old friend in the Manse by the fireside sitting,"."Christmas Eve"
by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/christmas-eve-1

Interesting find... an S.P. connection possibly.

"Thoughts, thoughts! Whistle them back like hounds returning--"... Enjoyed this poem very much... its rhyme and meter pleasant.

"riding by a bar called " nn"" - Nia Francisco; Navajo Inn... https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/nf-navajoinn.htm

Loved Nia Francisco's poem with its forceful images- and the new site.

"She came home, my Lord, and smashed in the television;"."Wife Who SmashedTelevision Gets Jail" by Paul Durcan
https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/pd2-wife.htm

Lol poem in a sad way... perhaps wry humour. Enjoyed :)

"That is no country for old men. The young" - William Butler Yeats; Sailing to Byzantium... https://www.uomus.edu.iq/img/lecture...3_12133631.pdf

A more detailed analysis, thanks. So it's from this poem the brothers Cohen took the title of one of their movies "No country for old men". I didn't watch it, but from what I've seen from these directors it probably means that the scenario of the story is too harsh and violent for old men to survive in it.

"Up at his attic sill the South wind came"."Up at his attic sill" by Allan Seeger
https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poe...athisattic.htm

I noticed that... the movie was very edgy.

• A wiki for Alan Seeger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Seeger
• A summary at AllPoetry: https://allpoetry.com/poem/8479787-S...by-Alan-Seeger
I think the city the poet is so disillusioned with is New York... I cannot conceive of the same sentiment with Paris. Enjoyed :)

"Vain is the effort to forget." - Matthew Arnold; On The Rhine... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ne-97138493920

Thanks for the links. Interesting bio.


I think big cities are similar. And Paris has become a symbol of culture. We probably idealize it a lot.

Beautiful poem! Longing for the past, expectations for the future.

"Water in the millrace, through a sluice of stone"."Winter Landscape with Rooks" by Sylvia Plath
https://allpoetry.com/Winter-Landscape,-With-Rooks

A bleak poem where even a swan in Winter is thought of being absurd... what a tortured spirit. Enjoyed.

Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:

"One night's east wind adorns a thousand trees with flowers" - Xin Qiji - Green Jade Cup-Lantem Festiva... https://www.cn-poetry.com/xinqiji-po...-festival.html

Wonderful poem.One can imagine the scene. Enjoyed very much!


"Yes, his face really is so terrible"."Sudden Appearance of a Monster at a Window" by Lawrence Raab
https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/lr-monster.htm

Scary poem... Enjoyed :)

"Zenith! The highest point to which furthest" - Titus/Tony; Love in the Highest - Reverse Abecedarian... https://allpoetry.com/poem/12519837-...arian-by-Titus

A sweet Z poem and reverse abecedarian at that! Enjoyed!

"Architects plant their imagination, weld their poems on rock,"."Earthfast" by A.S.J. Tessimond

https://allpoetry.com/Earthfast

Incredible poem... Have to disagree with the premise that architecture is more permanent than the written word though. Enjoyed :)

"Black-as-can-be cats arrive a-pair," - Sakutaro Hagiwara; Cats... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8522669-C...utaro-Hagiwara

:) Same idea for the next poem!


"Cats no less liquid than their shadows"."Cats" by A.S.J. Tessimond
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8529619-C....J.-Tessimond/

Wonderful poem with the exception of "Truly owned till shot or skinned." Enjoyed :)

""Do I believe," sayest thou, "what the masters of wisdom would teach me," - Friedrich Schiller; Genius... https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox

I agree completely with you!

Wonderful Schiller poem¡

"Encased in talent like a uniform," ,W.H. Auden,"The Novelist"
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8492953-T...t-by-W-H-Auden

So true ! Enjoyed :)

"Fair as a wreath of fresh spring flowers, a band of maidens lay" - Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon; The Choice Of Sweet Shy Clare... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...hy-clare-23808

Very 19th century poem.Enjoyed!

"Good hunting! – aye, good hunting""."The Forest Greeting" by Paul Florence Dunbar
https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/pd-hunt.htm

Enjoyed the forest greeting :)

"How desert islands" - Paul Cameron Brown; Adventurer... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...venturer-35470

:)

"Adventurer"-poem sharp as a razor. Enjoyed the concise images and use of language.

"Inside the carriage-coach"."In The Horse Carriage" by Sakutaro Hagiwara
https://allpoetry.com/In-The-Horse-Carriage

Enjoyed the carriage ride and the entreating of "Don't you rouse me from my sleep." :)

""Jack fell as he'd have wished," the Mother said," - Siegfried Loraine Sassoon; The Hero... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8499075-T...gfried-Sassoon

Enjoyed this war poem.

"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;".""The Riddle of the World" by Alexander Pope

https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/ap-riddl.htm

Enjoyed :) Found a summary here: https://smartenglishnotes.com/2020/1...s-and-answers/

"Laconic tears or Botticelli's Venus" - Paul Cameron Brown; Approaching Thirty (Lauds And Matins)... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ns-63692769961

Thanks for the notes. Interesting to know that Pope was mostly self taught . Also that the verb "to scan" was used in another sense in the 18C.
Enjoyed Paul Cameron's poem. I like his almost telegraphic style.


"My heart is what it was before,"."Alms" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

https://www.poetrycat.com/edna-st-vincent-millay/alms

Enjoyed... found a summary at AllPoetry: https://allpoetry.com/poem/8476033-A...Vincent-Millay

"Now at last I have come to see what life is," - Sara Teasdale; At Midnight... https://allpoetry.com/At-Midnight

Thanks for the summary, I didn’t find the poem in All Poetry.


Enjoyed "At Midnight"!

"One by one, like leaves from a tree"."Leaves " by Sara Teasdale
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8504569-L...-Sara-Teasdale

Enjoyed very much Sara's poem :)

"Pissing in the snow" - Kobayashi Issa; Pissing in the snow... https://allpoetry.com/Pissing-in-the-snow

No comments!

Poet with "Q" in his name:
https://www.cn-poetry.com/qinjia-poe...s-to-wife.html

Lol... I know, another reason to like Basho more.

Tender poem. Wondering how much is lost in the English rendering into a rhyming poem.

"Riverwater and seawave,where is my boy?" - Bai Juyi; Riverwater and seawave... https://www.cn-poetry.com/baijuyi-po...r-seawave.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bai_Juyi

Enjoyed the poem. Chinese poems must be very difficult to translate.

"Slopes"."Slopes of Mount Kugami" by Taigu Ryokan
https://allpoetry.com/Slopes-Of-Mount-Kugami

Brings back memories of all the times I've moved: some sweet, some bitter-sweet, some just bitter (sigh)... too many.

"The saintly hermit, midway through his prayers" - Rainer Maria Rilke; The Unicorn... https://eliteskills.com/c/15458

:)

Delicate poem. As to the analysis eliteskills must somehow be involved in it. It had the courage to point out a maiden as one of the main symbols of the poem.
Needless to say, there is no maiden in the poem!. ;)


"Up Life's Hill with my my little Bundle"."Up Life's Hill with my my little Bundle" by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poemine.com/Emily-Dickin...le-Bundle.html

True... Editor #2 went off the rails.

I found 1-comment that works for me in understanding ED's poem

Quote:

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Meredith says:
July 21, 2019 at 3:35 pm
Spotless from blame is the Heart that proposed she not make this world her home, that she follow Him to her home… up the steep hill, up. Discouragement comes from the weight(s) we carry, making our step heavy, causing us to forget the light and joy and weightlessness that was the first grasping of Hope of Heaven. https://www.americanpoems.com/poets/...little-bundle/

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Enjoyed :)

"Vill nobodies try my nice Annual Pill," - Thomas Moore; The Annual Pill... https://www.poetrycat.com/thomas-moore/the-annual-pill

Yes.There seems to be a grammar problem there, but I see what he means.
Could not find a context to this poem.


"W'EN de clouds is hangin' heavy in de sky,"."My Sweet Brown Gal" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
https://allpoetry.com/My-Sweet-Brown-Gal