A touching poem."V" is so much alive,
"- What are you rocking, little one?"."What are you rocking?" by Mihai Eminescu
https://allpoetry.com/Mihai-Eminescu
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A touching poem."V" is so much alive,
"- What are you rocking, little one?"."What are you rocking?" by Mihai Eminescu
https://allpoetry.com/Mihai-Eminescu
Found the poem here: https://allpoetry.com/Ce-te-Legeni! Full of metaphor; a poem of longing... Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:
"With each laugh is a" - Roxxi XTc (Vixen Von krieger?); hiding... https://allpoetry.com/poem/5462087-hiding-by-Roxxi-XTc
I see! Sorry, I put up the general Eminescu link.
Interesting poem. Liked the duality and the twist at the end.
"Yes! I have seen the ancient oak"." The Vassal's Lament for the Fallen Tree by Felicia Dorothea Heman
https://allpoetry.com/The-Vassal's-L...he-Fallen-Tree
Enjoyed the parallelism of the poem between a young boy and an ancient oak. We've lost many an ancient oak on our property... it's always a shock and saddening. Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet whose name has a 'z' in it:
"Before the altar burns the fragrant incense;" - Zabel Assadour; The Incense... https://allpoetry.com/The-Incense
Wonderful poem! Enjoyed the description of the incense and the parallel between the incense and the grieving woman.
"As when the north winds keenly blow,"."Discontent" by Confucius
https://allpoetry.com/items/read_by/...order=&page=10
Found your poem here: https://allpoetry.com/poem/8598321-D...t-by-Confucius
Surmising Wei in this context:... google AIQuote:
Wei (Northern Dynasty):
A major dynasty in northern China during the period between the Western and Eastern Zhou dynasties.
The Wei dynasty was the longest-lived and most powerful of the northern dynasties.
The dynasty lasted from 386 CE to 534/535 CE.
The Wei dynasty unified China under its rule.
Enjoyed :)
"Because there was no wind," - Amy Lowell; A Burnt Offering... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/burnt-offering-0
Got one of my famous colds.
Wonderful synthetic poem!
"Crass rays streaming from the vestibules;"."Flotsam" by Lola Ridge
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8520259-F...-by-Lola-Ridge
Desktop PC decided to lose the boot device... possibly after an update... had to research on my phone... finally learned a way to get into the bios and change the boot device to "default device". Still haven't repaired my laptop.
Pray your cold goes away soon.
Another poem of dystopian New York City... Incredible language used: "Nothing to guess at… / Save the darkness above / Crouching like a great cat." Enjoyed :)
"Dreamed the thong of my sandal broke." - Denise Levertov; The Broken Sandal... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2018/0...nise-levertov/
Congrats that you found your way. Getting into Litnet has become a daily challlenge!
Thanks!
"Enter without knocking, hard-working ant."."This morning " by Charles Simic
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...charles-simic/
"T" our host was sick that day in 2011: "Still sick, and consoling myself with books and poems."
I think it's been a while for a poem by Simic... "You visit the same tailors the mourners do, / Mr. Ant. I like the silence between us, / The quiet—that holy state even the rain / Knows about." Wonderful poem :) ... And yet the following is a scathing critique I just cannot fathom... http://www.cosmoetica.com/TOP109-DES106.htm
Just for balance: https://poets.org/poet/charles-simic...ieting%20muse.
"Facebook, for me, is not much fun," - John Philip Drury; Social Networking (in memory of Ray Bradbury) ... https://www.versedaily.org/2021/socialnetworking.shtml
I liked CS's poem, but I didn’t go deeply into it. A very scating critic may be right but may simply be envy. Simic seems to have a facility of seeing unusual images in every day objects, like the watermelons as green Buddhas.
Interesting poem about Facebook.
"Go, since you must, but, Dearest, know"."At Parting" by Edith Nesbithttps://allpoetry.com/At-Parting
https://allpoetry.com/At-Parting
Beautiful poem of love and loss :)
"Have you noticed" - Paul Hostovsky; Face Mask... https://www.versedaily.org/2021/facemask.shtml
Interesting take on the masked faces,
By the same poet:
"I love this poem"."Love Poem" by Paul Hostovsky
http://www.versedaily.org/2007/lovepoem.shtml
Lol, I think he loved his poem... Enjoyed :)
"Juncos" - Molly Brodak; There Is Such A Thing... https://www.versedaily.org/2021/thereissuchathing.shtml
Criptic poem, also about faces. In Portuguese "juncos" means simply "reeds".But probably the poet doesn't know that.
"King Arthur's men have come again."."King Arthur's men have come again" by Vachel Lindsay
https://allpoetry.com/King-Arthur's-Men-Have-Come-Again
An anthem poem, however political... enjoyed :)
"Lately, I have been thinking again of the fall" - Brian Culhane; Just before, or Right after, the Fall of Rome... https://www.versedaily.org/2019/thefallofrome.shtml
A timely poem!
"Me & my girl are leaning on the guardrail"."Pineapples on Chopsticks" by Peihe Fen
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/pine...opsticks.shtml
A vivid poem about pineapple, and a bit more... Enjoyed :)
"No one can say I didn't warn them. We're finally afraid," - Lindsay M. D'Andrea; Premonition... https://www.versedaily.org/2025/premonition.shtml
Absolutely to the point!
"On the deck this morning a baby rabbit—"."Refuge" by Lisa Ashley
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/refugela.shtml
Poor bunny... Enjoyed :)
"Picture a boat whatever boat a yacht" - Shane McCrae; Petrarchan Sonnet on the Electrified Sea... https://www.versedaily.org/2024/petr...ifiedsea.shtml
Again a very fitting modern poem!
Poem by a poet with his name starting with "Q":
"Because you have been separated from your parents, you doodle nonsense"."Postscript" by Octavio Quintanilla
http://www.versedaily.org/2024/postscript.shtml
Poignant and dense poem of immigration... Enjoyed.
"Ripe strawberries, strawberries ripe!" - Florence Stevenson; Ripe strawberries, strawberries ripe!... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...?TextId=130131
Interesting poem that seems to be part of a musical about a dark episode in English History:the comdenation and execution of the young Jane Gray who reigned as Queen of Britain during nine days, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Jane_Grey. As you probably remember from school, Queen Mary who comdened Jane as traitor, was in her turn comdened and executed by her cousin Elisabeth, who then became Elisabeth l. The song itself maybe refers to the things that were sold during the executions.
"Starlight scrawls her name in fog above the creek,"."Sonnet for Lolly" by Jacob Butlett
https://www.versedaily.org/2024/sonnetforlolly.shtml
Interesting, albeit a tragic history.
Colorful language... Enjoyed :)
"That curve" - Fernando Trujillo; The Broken Column... https://www.versedaily.org/2025/thebrokencolumn.shtml
Interesting, but lol, I expected a poem about a broken backbone as "coluna" in Portuguese and maybe also in Spanish is the name of the backbone. Well, maybe it is. I found the Lorca poem the poem refers to:https://www.letras.mus.br/camaron-de...1/english.html
"Undue Significance a starving man attaches"."Undue Significance a starving man attaches"" by Emily Dickinson.
https://allpoetry.com/Undue-Signific...g-man-attaches
Enjoyed Romance de La Luna
Oddly slanted poem by Emily... thank heavens for the summary. Enjoyed :)
"Van Gogh worked with nothing in his belly but milk" - Carmen Germain; The Fixed Stars... https://www.versedaily.org/2023/thefixedstars.shtml
Loved this poem, the connection between the stars and the paintings and the holes is unusual yet somehow convincing. Love this site you discovered with current poetry.
"When she left him he"."Man with Dog" by Max Sessner
http://www.versedaily.org/2023/manwithdog.shtml
Delightful !... after the loss that is. A most enjoyable speculative ending :)
Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:
"Beaches and their weather," - Lex Runciman; What Do You Carry?... https://www.versedaily.org/2019/whatdoyoucarry.shtml
Enjoyed the poem!
"You'd think she did not love enough,"."The Thread" by Julian Orde
https://www.versedaily.org/2024/thethread.shtml
Interesting tension: "But taut and trembling as the string / Teased by a bow on violin / Until it screams." The thread of a web in its making... Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:
"“Always” means “Eternally.”" - Alisha Dietzman; XOXO... https://poetrysociety.org/poems/xoxo-and-xoxo-coda
Interesting word tensions in this poem. Enjoyed!
"Any way you look at it, it seems the world is"."Abecedarian for a World Enflamed" by Leah Umansky
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/abec...enflamed.shtml
PS-What do you think of liberating titles of poems starting with difficult to find letters: k, q, x and z?
Imaginative Abecedarian poem. "extra" is a fanciful touch... Enjoyed :)
"liberating titles" - That might be very helpful :)
"Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward," - D H Lawrence; Butterfly... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8510433-B...y-D-H-Lawrence
Enjoyed this almost tender addressing of the butterfly.
Letter "c" is not difficult but I liked the poem:
"Lately, I've been into transformation". "Come In, Houston, or Everything I Know I Learned from the Guitar Solo in Tori Amos' "Doughnut Song" (Live in Frankfurt, Germany" by Anthony Frame
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/come...erything.shtml
Enjoyed very much :)
"delicate yet enduring" - PinkFaerie5; Christ and the Dogwood... https://allpoetry.com/poem/15071722-...by-PinkFaerie5
A delicate poem. I looked up the legend of the dogwood. Probably you know it already but here it is: https://www.gardenia.net/guide/dogwo...e_Twisted_Tree
"Exhibit 3 was an enormous yellow"."Self, Centered" by Sofia Fall
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/selfcentered.shtml
I so love Dogwoods. Thank you for the in-depth article. I don't recall hearing the story before :)
Enjoyed the self-centered poem: "... drawing in all the gravity..." :)
"Forever — is composed of Nows —" - Emily Dickinson; Forever — is composed of Nows... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ed-of-nows-690
Enjoyed! ED surprisingly explicit here about the simplification of time.
"Gently fall the shadows gray,". "Slumber Song" by Arthur Macy
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ber-song-38566
By the way, are you still frequenting your poetic afternoons? You didn't publish any poems anymore.
re: poems... yes, we had a session of Thursdays at Two yesterday, I guess I've been lax about posting them lately, though I have been posting them to my Padlet, along with what I write here of course... will try to remedy :)
Charming lullaby type poem :)
"hey harpist with the stringy fingers" - Kevin (somewhere in jersey); favorite harpist; alice and the rabbit hole... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2494368...e-rabbit-hole/
I'll be glad to read them. I've become slower too, with the word challenge poems.
Really enjoyed that harpist poem.Hope Kevin keeps up his poetry.
"I don't know how we two poets find ourselves"."Like Seeds in the Belly of a Sparrow" by Lois Roma-Deeley
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/like...asparrow.shtml
No problem with the lol poems... I've posted some of my Word Can poems after your noting... some assignment poems may follow.
Enjoyed very much... lots to take in :)
"Just as in a sponge, there is in the orange a yearning to recover its content" - Francis Ponge; l'Orange... https://allpoetry.com/l'Orange