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Wonderful poem: "Why do we treat the fleeting day / with so much needless fear and sorrow? / It's in its nature not to stay: / Today is always gone tomorrow." :)
"O friends, I cannot comfort, but will share with you your grieving," - Nora Pembroke; Weep With Those Who Weep... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembr...those-who-weep
"Weep With Those Who Weep...". So sad!
"PAVEMENT slip'ry; People sneezing ;"."January, 1795" by Mary Robinson.
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw326.html
Wonderful history lesson for JANUARY, 1795 :)
"Quietly running through the house" - Trisha; Quiet... https://www.poetry.com/poem/116725/quiet
"Quiet"- Interesting poem starting with "Q"
"Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,".Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) from "In Memoriam A.H.H"- 106
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw383.html
A wonderful tintinnabulous poem if I ever read one :)
"Stasis in darkness." - Sylvia Plath; Ariel... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49001/ariel
Found this analysis to help understanding the poem. Ariel was the name of Sylvia Platt´s horse.
https://poemanalysis.com/sylvia-plat...o%20a%20charge.
"The wind is blue."."My Friend, Her Grandson" Pia Täavila-Borsheim
https://poets.org/poem/my-friend-her-grandson
Thanx for the analysis :)
Pia - Interesting to add planes, sharks, and jets on an otherwise nice trip to the beach.
"Upon Dionysus the tyrant" - Friedrich Schiller; Die Bürgschaft (The Pledge)... https://www.thechainedmuse.com/post/...drich-schiller
re: Maybe "planes, sharks, and jets" are just the point.
I didn´t find any analysis, but here is this short comment about this poem by the author herself:
“This poem was written several years after the grandmother figure had passed away. She had been my best friend and sharpest-eyed literary critic for more than fifty years. It was a day during which such contrasting yet mostly harmonious seascapes were present: the lasting dunes, the wind, the water. And the young boy . . . where did he fit within the landscape? What would his future hold? This poem is also my prayer that he will not be swept into the violence of the military apparatus, represented by the planes overhead. He is now in middle school. I have great hope for him.”
—Pia Täavila-Borsheim
https://poets.org/poem/my-friend-her-grandson
:) "The Pledge" is one of the most famous and one of my favorite poems by Schiller!
"Verse-making was least of my virtues: I viewed with despair"."Verse-Making Was Least Of My Virtues" by Robert Browning
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...y-virtues-6810
Ah. :)
Enjoyed Browning's comparison poem :)
"Wrong solitude vinegars the soul," - Jane Hirshfield; Vinegar and Oil... https://poets.org/poem/vinegar-and-oil
Interesting comparison poem "Vinegar and Oil..". Isn't there something in the Bible about vinegar and oil?
Poem title starting with "X" ;)
" 'Devil's share' is the portion of one's goods that cannot be usefully". "X. Dance of the Western Union Envelope How the Heart Leaps Up More Eager Than Plant or Beast by Anne Carson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...plant-or-beast
Try again :)
"Vinegar and Oil Bible"... https://www.shakespeareandcompany.co...-and-oil-bible
re: NT Bible... https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.c...negar-to-drink ... so it wasn't vinegar and oil given to our Savior... however when He was at Gethsemane, the olive garden overlooking Jerusalem, he sweat great drops of blood, like the first pressings of olives, while in supplication to Heavenly Father. There may be other references that I'm not aware of... More research ! :)
Such a sad poignant poem by Ann Carson. Enjoyed :)
"Ye who in rhymes dispersed the echoes hear" - Francesco Petrarca; To Laura In Life. Sonnet I. Voi, ch' ascoltate in rime sparse il suono. / He Confesses the Vanity of His Passion.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-...-life-sonnet-i
Bravo, you overcame the instability! I saw your earlier entry of the post above in "two words poem". Should it ever become too difficult, leave it there and I will try to transfer it, when on PC. Thanks for the research on vinegar and oil.
From the three translations of Petrarca's sonnet 1 I prefer the first by Charlemont.
"Zed"."Zed zou aze z zast of z lezzers" by Miroslava Odalovic
https://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=462663
Whimsical Z poem :)
"All paths lead to you" - Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff; All Paths Lead To You - Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff... https://allpoetry.com/All-Paths-Lead-To-You
All Paths Lead To You- Beauty and Simplicity
"Between Hanoi and Sapa there are clean slabs of rice fields". "Rootless" by Jenny Xie.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-64bff09e9cf33