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For some reason the link presented another poem from another poet with the same title, but I found the poem. Bit uncanny reminds me of a novel where thousands of white mots danced around.
"Knew not the Sun, sweet Violet,"Brotherhood"
by John Banister Tabb
https://www.litscape.com/author/John...otherhood.html
Thanx - Corrected the link... LitNet truncated the trailing "." because I didn't use the url tags... my bad for not checking the link once posted.
Interesting rhyme scheme: abxbcc, adxdee, afxfgg. Found a summary here: https://allpoetry.com/poem/8571947-B...Bannister-Tabb Enjoyed :)
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you;" - Ella Wheeler Wilcox; Solitude... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-56d225aad9924
Summary: https://www.owleyes.org/text/solitude
No problem!Happens so often to me.
Thanks! Didn't find it in All poetry.
"Solitude ". True enough!Enjoyed the summary too!
"most evenings find mummy pacing down cooling"."I write of my mother in the book of joy " by Saida Agostini
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/iwri...ookofjoy.shtml
Wonderful poem of nurturing... Enjoyed :)
"No one talks more than a Poet;" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; To The Kind Reader... https://allpoetry.com/To-The-Kind-Reader
Enjoyed the Goethe poem, didn't know it. Found the German original. The translator simplified the language taking away some of its charm.
"One man wrests a flag"."Domestic Concerns " by Lisa Ampleman.
http://www.versedaily.org/2024/domesticconcerns.shtml
Enjoyed the counterpoint between men and women of "civilization" :)
"Perhaps some day the sun will shine again," - Vera Brittain; Perhaps (To R.A.L.)... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8540797-P...-Vera-Brittain
Touching poem about the endurance of loss by a female war poet, something that probably was unusual at the time of WWĺl.
"Quit it with the fear thing. Scientists can't say"."How to Survive in Earthquake Country" by Rachelle Sierra
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/howt...ecountry.shtml
A 'Q' poem :)
I have an app that will warn of a great shake, prolly most in California have it on their phones. Inevitably a great quake will hit, if not here then elsewhere in the world; probability says so... it's best to live not in fear but be prepared. Enjoyed :)
"RUINS of trees whose woeful arms " - George Herbert Clarke; RUINS (YPRES, 1917) ... https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10048629
Link didn’t work for me but found the poem in Lieder. net. Terrible, forceful poem and so up to date!
"She would say she swam"."She Would Say She Swam With Her Brother" by Pamela Hobart Carter
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/shew...ysheswam.shtml
Must be a regional thing.
Interesting tension, a survival averted... Enjoyed :)
"Turn to thy window in the silver hour" - Virna Sheard; At Dawn... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8606155-A...y-Virna-Sheard
Not sure: survival or death averted?
Loved this delicate dawn poem
"Up to the star new-born in sight"."Up to the Star (version three) by Mihai Eminescu
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8566011-U...Mihai-Eminescu
Interesting parallelism... Enjoyed :)
"Violets from Plug Street Wood," - Roland Leighton; Violets - April 1915 (1916)... https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poe...s---april-1915
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Again a poem that exposes the horrors of war. Vera Brittain, Roland's fiancée was also a war poet. See your post#3086.
"When my mother forgets the word for dahlia"."When my mother forgets the word for dahlia" by Robin Turner
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/when...rforgets.shtml
:)
I do not look forward to cognitive decline... perhaps it has begun to happen in subtle ways I haven't fully grasped yet; thoughtful poem on the theme... Enjoyed :)
"Xavier’s xebec xferred xenophiliacally " - Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock; Xavier’s Xebec... https://vocal.media/poets/xavier-s-xebec
I think as long it is subtle it is fine.
"Vocal is not available in your country" but I at least could see that all words started with X.
"Yesterday we sat on the bank of the Kamo River, laughing". "Three Poems" by Gary Young
http://www.versedaily.org/2019/threepoems.shtml
:( I'm so sorry. The artwork ("Ancient Wharf" by Derek Fiechter) showed a "xebec" in the foreground with others in a golden light... the poem with all its words starting with 'x'. I found a video of instrumental music that evidently goes with the art... https://www.google.com/search?client...IaViwLa4Q,st:0
Then I found a Google AI blurb that might be available for you: https://www.google.com/search?q="Xav...t=gws-wiz-serp
Surprising poem !... Enjoyed so very much :)
Poem title starting with the letter 'z':
"Amusing, zebras zooming, mozzies abuzz," - T4ky0; Zookeeper’s Zoetrope... https://allpoetry.com/poem/17569607-...trope-by-T4ky0
Thanks for all that trouble, tailor. Enjoyed the music. Yes the blurb with the smiling girls opened, but I didn't quite know what to make with it.
A very ingenious aliteration poem. Enjoyed so much!
"Absolute, the sudden silence—the fan stops"."Abecedarian for the Power Outage" by Catherine Pierce.
http://www.versedaily.org/2024/abece...eroutage.shtml
Lol... the smiling girls all direct to the poem I first linked, don't know why.
Enjoyed this Abecedarian offering :)
"Because her days were making a garden " - Brendan Kennelly; A Half-finished Garden... https://wfupress.wfu.edu/poem-of-the...ndan-kennelly/
Enjoyed that half finished garden!
"Cabbage Night that year was bright and humid." ."Hunger" by Michael Goodfellow
http://www.versedaily.org/2022/hungry.shtml
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischief_Night
Odd tension in this poem... poltergeist ? Enjoyed :)
"Darkness is not a death, does not obliterate," - Alice B. Fogel; Forgiving the Darkness
... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...g-the-darkness
"Hunger"? I think so.
"Each year I cut a tree sprout from the chimney" "The Donkey on the Road" by Jesse Graves
http://www.versedaily.org/2022/thedonkeyontheroad.shtml
"The donkey on the road to Brementown meets
his crew of cast-outs, no sorrier than most,
none really the musicians they pretend to be."
I think these strophe refers to this tale:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town...ians_of_Bremen
A needful change of location. I remember the Brementown tale... Enjoyed :)
"Five more books in a box to be carried out to the car," - Mark Halliday; The Halls... https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-...095/the-halls/
Poem about invisibility and belonging. Enjoyed!
"Gingerly, yes,"."DRAWBRIDGE + MOAT" by Natalie Louise Tombasco
http://www.versedaily.org/2023/drawbridge+moat.shtml
Evocative poem after the style of Marianne Moore... invoking Sapphic images and a secret language. A wonderful treatise of enjambment... all in all a dense wonder of a poem. Enjoyed :)
"Hour by hour I sit, " - Sappho?; A lyric (The vigil)... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...l?TextId=46338
Moving in its simplicity of language. Enjoyed!
"In the last year of the old drought,"."The Last Gate to an Old Life" by Romeo Oriogun
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/thel...noldlife.shtml
"while writing into sunset the sonnet / that follows every bird flying"... Enjoyed :)
"July 4th fireworks jar American nights," - Henry Allen; July: A Sonnet... https://theamericanscholar.org/july-a-sonnet/
I fully share the feelings conveid in the above poem.
"Killer whales have stopped reproducing.".."Why have children when the world is ending?" by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
http://www.versedaily.org/2023/whyha...drenwhen.shtml
Somber poem. Brings to mind a Sci-fi story: The Screwfly Solution... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwfly_Solution Enjoyed :)
"Laughter sort o' settles breakfast better than digestive pills;" - Edgar Albert Guest; Laughter... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8471207-L...r-Albert-Guest
It's somber indeed. There aren't many options starting with "k". As for the misogynist disease it still exists here in the tropics, by the quantities of feminicides
which appear in the news.
Enjoyed so much this poem about laughter! An antidote against so many evils.
"My wife and I rented a lake house at Cayuga Lake." ."Wanting Kids" by Bunkong Tuong
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/wantingkids.shtml
"feminicide" :(
"After the room returned to speech, she read her novel / And I wrote. During lunch I read poetry to her / Between bites of sandwich and dark red cherries."... Enjoyed :)
"Nor dread nor hope attend" - William Butler Yeats; Death... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8453361-D...m-Butler-Yeats
Synthetic and to the point.
"Overnight, it seems, the butterfly bush,"."To Stand Astonished" by Terry Kennedy
http://www.versedaily.org/2023/tostandastonished.shtml
Love this... a very contemplative poem. Enjoyed :)
"People in the neighborhood called him The Writer" - Anne Pierson Wiese; The Writer... https://www.versedaily.org/2011/thewriter.shtml
"The Writer." A kind of short story poem. Sad but enjoyed.
A poem by a poet with a "Q " in her name:
"That we might be rootless, ruthless, industrious, dust—"Caisson" by Carol Quinn
http://www.versedaily.org/2009/caisson.shtml
Enigmatic poem for me... I see death and its aftermath disjointed here... and there. Enjoyed :)
"Rust is the reliable color of" - Marilyn Yung; Rust... https://marilynyung.com/2020/08/31/an-ode-to-rust/
re " Caisson": Seems to me a spirit visiting earth after death.
Interesting poem and very fitting image. Never stopped to think about rust as a color that combines degradation and resilience.
"Strings slide in" . "The Cello" by Andrea Potos
http://www.versedaily.org/2022/thecello.shtml
Craving a bit of Yo Yo Ma now... Enjoyed :)
"The art of losing isn’t hard to master;" - Elizabeth Bishop; One Art... https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/...zabeth-bishop/
Liked the poem by EB and the analysis. Wasn’t aware that the poet herself had suffered so many severe losses.
"Under vague silver moonlight"."The Trees At Night" by William Kerr
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...at-night-37821
"The lonely lovely trees sigh / For summer spent and gone:" Enjoyed :)
"Vultures on Route One-Six-Three, - Ron Singer; Vultures on Route 163... http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...route-163.html
Dark but true poem about predation.
"Warm-hearted shining silver lyre"."Sonnet of Homage to Manuel de Falla Offering Him Flowers" by Federico Garcia Lorca
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...m-flowers.html
Manuel de Falla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeSfJiuGJQE
PS- The funny thing about poetryatlas is that sometimes the poems appear to me and other times they don't because of copyright restrictions.