"Coordinates..." Charming and to the point:"Sometimes you have to leave all your cities
to fall in love".
"Friends have I in Bohemia three ". "My Friends In Bohemia" by James Edwin Campbell
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-5218
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"Coordinates..." Charming and to the point:"Sometimes you have to leave all your cities
to fall in love".
"Friends have I in Bohemia three ". "My Friends In Bohemia" by James Edwin Campbell
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-5218
Lol ! :)
"Great forests you frighten me, like vast cathedrals:" - Charles Baudelaire; Obsession... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-baudelaire/obsession
"Obsession...". Great images with Baudelaire just being himself!
"Her skin never wrinkled"."Secret Anti-Aging Formula" by Jennifer Prado
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-aging-formula
Another gem :) We have a city in California near Stockton named Manteca... never knew it meant "butter" :)
"I have done it again." - Sylvia Plath; Lady Lazarus... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...0/lady-lazarus
re: Mantega in Portuguese. I think California and the larger region must at a time have been under Spanish occupation or populated by Spanish navigators given the profusion os Spanish names that have come to mix naturally with the English ones: El Dorado, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Nevada( snow storm) etc. I think this fascinating.
"Lady Lazarus..." Astonishing how the poem blends history and bodily subjectivity. And the idea of death seemed always to be very present in her poetry.
"Jesús José Medrano went away". "Villanelle" by Michael Luis Medrano
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...062/villanelle
re: California - yes... indigenous peoples came in waves sometimes supplanting each other, then the Spanish and Russians, then the gold miners' rush giving rise to conquest and statehood.
Incredible villanelle... a sad subject, but well done. Villanelles: I need more practice... terrible at them. We had a poet on LitNet once, Pen, I think, that crafted villanelles well with little effort.
"Kind friend, you do not know how much" - Hattie Howard; The Little Clock... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...le-clock-20864
re: Yes, I think that was Pendragon, he was still here when I registered.
Cute little clock:
"lusting and unafraid. In this bipedal incarnation"."In my next life let me be a tomato" by NATASHA RAO
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...me-be-a-tomato
Delightful and whimsical poem: "I want to be unabased, audacious, to gobble / space, to blush deeper each day in the sun" :)
"My reading is extremely deep and wide;" - Hilaire Belloc; Ballade of Modest Confession... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...est-confession
Lol!I looked for some analytical help to understand the poem and found AI in action:
https://keytopoetry.com/hilaire-bell...st-confession/
"No radio". "Radio" by Laurel Blossom
https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-...180-016/radio/
re: AI - yes, encounter this site every now and then... actually used the metre of a poem once to try a binary code translation to assist in a poem once (lol).
No Radio - Amusing/sad state of affairs when owning a vehicle, anywhere :(
"On shallow straw, in shadeless glass," - Philip Larkin; Take One Home For The Kiddies... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...in/poems/14588
"Take One Home For The Kiddies...". Realistic, but didn´t enjoy the content :(.
"OH, greenly and fair in the lands of the sun,"."The Pumpkin" by John Greenleaf Whittier.
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw209.html
"What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? / What calls back the past, like the rich Pumpkin pie?" Enjoyed :)
"Pomegranates fell from the trees" - Alison Hawthorne Deming; [i]Eve Revisited[i]... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/eve-revisited/
(Sorry, just saw that my last poem should have begun with "P". Getting on with "Q")
"Eve Revisited" -Very interesting take on the famous Bible episode. Enjoyed!
A poem, title starting with "Q"."QUALITY! short poem.by Shakil Ahmed Baliyavi
https://www.poetry.com/poem/82466/quality!-short-poem.
Simple deep poem :)
"Retired ballerinas on winter afternoons" - Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/r...ral-park-west/
"Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West..." Enjoyed the poem, its rhythm and internal alliterations. Reminds me of my one visit to Central Park, where a squirrel took delicately a nut out of my hand.
"Still turnstiles framed by a window "."Hither Come Hither" by Richard Greenfield
https://poets.org/poem/hither-come-hither