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I think TM is just looking for a quick and easy fix of his society's drawbacks.
"No, I means my fiddle—dat's my sweet brown gal!" Lol, a fine turn at the end... Enjoyed the vernacular poem :)
Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:
"In the middle of a silence deserted as a street before a crime" - Xavier Villaurrutia; Nocturne: Nothing Is Heard... https://allpoetry.com/Nocturne:-Nothing-Is-Heard
Wonderful poem! Villarrutia may be obsessed by the idea of death. But he extracts beautiful images out of it.
"You cannot see the walls that divide your hand"."Nursery Rhyme for a Twenty-First Birthday" by A. S. J. Tessimond
https://allpoetry.com/Nursery-Rhyme-...First-Birthday
Brief enigmatic poem... enjoyed both the poem and the summary :)
Poem by poet with a 'z' in their name:
"Crouching hero walks with the guide of his broomstick" - Zandra Javier; I Went to the Zoo... https://allpoetry.com/poem/12743469-...-Zandra-Javier
A very interesting poem. Enjoyed! And a seldom occasion when the poet explains the meaning of the poem.
"As to a child, I talked my heart asleep"."Sonnet X" by Fernando Pessoa
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8543645-S...ernando-Pessoa
I think this is my favorite by Pessoa so far... Enjoyed :)
"Bright summer comes, all bloom and flowers," - Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney; In A Season Of Bereavement... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...eavement-17088
Sad and beautiful poem, touching with its simple language. But I hope things are well out there.
"Come to me, O ye children!"."Children" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
https://poemanalysis.com/henry-wadsw...llow/children/
Muddling through with a perfect brightness of hope :) Hoping things are well with you as well.
Children: "For ye are living poems,"... wonderful poem :)
"Does pleasant spring return once more?" - Friedrich von Schiller; The Complaint Of Ceres... https://allpoetry.com/The-Complaint-Of-Ceres
:)
Schiller tomorrow. Got to go to bed now.
The Complaint of Ceres-Wonderful poem!
"ecco a letter starting"dearest we"."ecco a letter starting" by e.e.cummings
https://allpoetry.com/ecco-a-letter-starting
As the summary stated a playful enigmatic poem in the style of e.e.... Enjoyed :)
"Fair insect! that, with threadlike legs spread out," - William Cullen Bryant; To a Musquito... https://allpoetry.com/To-a-Musquito
"The offspring of the gods, though born on earth" Aiaiai! Don’t let the dengue mosquito hear that! Enjoyed this poem from a place where mosquitoes were merely a nuisance.
"Glad hours have been when I have seen"."Contentment " by George Parsons Lathrop
https://www.poetrycat.com/george-par...op/contentment
Enjoyed :)
"Her voice is like clear water" - Sara Teasdale; A Fantasy... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8504593-A...-Sara-Teasdale
Enjoyed this platonic fantasy!
"I had a dream--a strange, wild dream--"."A Dream" by William Cullen Briant
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8491981-A...-Cullen-Bryant
Mortality... sigh. Enjoyed :)
"Just in the hush before dawn" - Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Cory Nicolson); Verses: Faiz Ulla; Just in the hush before dawn... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...?TextId=154254
Beautiful though pessimistic poem
Poem by a poet with "K" in her name
"from the mind"."From The Mind" by Kaga no Chiyo
https://allpoetry.com/From-The-Mind
Enjoyed... Preferred the first translation :)
"Let us go across the road-bridge," - Sakutaro Hagiwara; Road-Bridge... https://allpoetry.com/Road-Bridge
Me too!
Enjoyed "Road-Bridge so much! Very rich in symbolism.
"My heart is like a singing bird"."A Birthday " by Cristina Rossetti
https://allpoetry.com/A-Birthday
Joy and love... what a birthday should be :)
"Now while the crimson light fades in the west," - Marietta Holley; The Land Of Long Ago... https://www.best-poems.net/marietta-...-long-ago.html
Beautiful, nostalgic poem!
“Oh where are you going with your love-locks flowing?"."Amor Mundi " by Christina Rossetti
https://poemanalysis.com/christina-rossetti/amor-mundi/
Tragic poem well done... Enjoyed the poetics :)
"Penelope that longed for the sight," - Unknown; set to music by William Byrd; Penelope that longed for the sight... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...l?TextId=67277
A somewhat whiny poem.
Poem by a poet with his two names starting with "Q".
"Finches flash yellow through the Imperial Grove"."To My Friend At the Capital Secretary Pei" by Qian Qi
https://www.cn-poetry.com/qianqi-poe...my-friend.html
Beautiful mural. "Flowers muffle a bell in the Palace of Bliss / And rain has deepened the Dragon Lake willows;" An anguished poet... Enjoyed :)
"Rest and have ease;" - Humbert Wolfe; In the street of lost time... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...l?TextId=17517
Beautiful mural. "Flowers muffle a bell in the Palace of Bliss / And rain has deepened the Dragon Lake willows;" An anguished poet... Enjoyed :)
"Rest and have ease;" - Humbert Wolfe; In the street of lost time... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...l?TextId=17517
Beautiful mural. "Flowers muffle a bell in the Palace of Bliss / And rain has deepened the Dragon Lake willows;" An anguished poet... Enjoyed :)
"Rest and have ease;" - Humbert Wolfe; In the street of lost time... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...l?TextId=17517
Beautiful mural. "Flowers muffle a bell in the Palace of Bliss / And rain has deepened the Dragon Lake willows;" An anguished poet... Enjoyed :)
"Rest and have ease;" - Humbert Wolfe; In the street of lost time... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...l?TextId=17517
I see you had some posting difficulties. Litnet has been open for some hours here and then the "database error" message appears.
Beautiful and sad poem.
"Sleepy policemen waddle under streetlights."."The Night " by Alfred Lichtenstein
https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-lichtenstein/the-night
Big city vignette, stark in its brevity... Enjoyed :)
"Ten o'clock: the broken moon;" - Emma Lazarus A June Night... https://allpoetry.com/A-June-Night
A June Night-Magical description of the moon and the night.Enjoyed very much!
"Under the shadow of a hawthorn brake,"."In Hospital" by Edith Nesbit
https://allpoetry.com/In-Hospital
Odd war poem... Enjoyed :)
"Vainly wouldst thou, to gain a heart," - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; True Enjoyment
... https://allpoetry.com/True-Enjoyment
Lol! Sounds all very romantic and modest, but didn't hinder the poet falling in love with more than 15 women throughout his life, the last being a girl of 18 when he himself was 80.
"Who looked for thee, thou little song of mine?" Sonnet by Alice Meynell
https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...?TextId=153118
JWvG: Lol
Alice Meynell was one of the poets of her time "Grappling with crucial ecofeminist concerns, the writers heightened awareness of and dispelled misconceptions about the nonhuman realm."... https://dokumen.pub/reconceiving-nat...826221872.html Enjoyed the poem :)
Poem(s) by a poet with an 'x' in their name:
"She spoke about being in heaven" - Xiao An; A Believer... https://worldliteraturetoday.org/201...ree-poems-xiao
Touching poem!
"Young and a conqueror, once on a day,"."The Conqueror« by Edith Nesbit.
https://allpoetry.com/The-Champion
Fun poem about the battles between personified Summer and Winter... Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:
"Wilted branches, old trees, twilighting crows;" - Ma Zhiyuan; Tianjingsha – Autumnal Musings”... https://huaqingsimeng.wordpress.com/...umnal-musings/
Enjoyed the poem and both translations.
"As I went walking up and down to take the evening air,""Macdougal Street"A by Edna St. Vincent Millay
https://www.poetrycat.com/edna-st-vi...cdougal-street
Dense poem, found some help here... http://maps-legacy.org/poets/m_r/millay/ninamiller.htm Enjoyed :)
"Beyond the crooked apple-bough" - Rosamund Marriott Watson; The new moon... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...l?TextId=61250
Thanks for the helpful link on Edna Millay.
Nostalgic moon poem. Enjoyed!
"Clouded with snow"."Winter" by Walter de la Mare
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8494519-W...ter-de-la-Mare
Enjoyed :) Curious what a frost-fire was in the context of the poem in WdlM's time... all the wikis describe 'it' in modern fantasy gaming.
"Down-adown-derry," - Walter De La Mare; Down-Adown-Derry... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...wn-derry-33296
I didn't find a good article on the subject. Could there be wildfires in frosted areas too?
Enjoyed the legend of Annie Maroon.
"Early summer rain--"."Early summer rain--" by Yosa Buson
https://www.poemine.com/Yosa-Buson/E...mmer-rain.html
That must be it.
Buson was heavily influenced by Basho... The translation of this poem into English must have lost some of its savor.
"From out the wood I watched them shine, -" - Walter De La Mare; Haunted... http://www.newforestcentre.info/gothic-poetry.html
Maybe. I liked its simplicity though.
Enjoyed WdlM's poem. It didn't give me the feeling of hauntedness, but of permanence in the memory of loving ones.
"Gruffly growled the wind on Toller downland broad and bare,"."The Homecoming" by Thomas Hardy
https://www.poetrycat.com/thomas-hardy/the-homecoming