john Lennon´s Yoko Ono! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ono
"Waiting for an epiphany," Waiting For An Epiphany by Kurt Philip Behm
https://www.poetry.com/poem/43802/wa...or-an-epiphany
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john Lennon´s Yoko Ono! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ono
"Waiting for an epiphany," Waiting For An Epiphany by Kurt Philip Behm
https://www.poetry.com/poem/43802/wa...or-an-epiphany
Yoko: :)
"Waiting for an epiphany," - very minimalistic :)
"Xmas light angel sparkling bright" - James Bradley McCallum Apr 2020 Rooftop Angel...
https://hellopoetry.com/poem/3825909/rooftop-angel/
Delicate poem!:)
"You gasp, awakened by". School for the Deaf by Adam Pottle
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/school-deaf
Sad poem... can't even imagine.
"Zoning." - Jerry Wayne Lawrence, Jr. Z.O.N.E.... https://www.poetry.com/poem/118387/z.o.n.e.
Interesting acrostic. By the way: If one wants one can become member of poetry.com and send ones own poems, I only don´t know if it´s free.
"A bird came down the walk:" A bird came down by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poetry.com/poem/11413/a-bird-came-down
Beautiful poem :)
"Besides the autumn poets sing," - Emily Dickinson Part Two: Nature XLIX... https://www.bartleby.com/113/2049.html
The more I read poems by Dickinson, the more I like them.
"The camel-backs of Peavine," Camelbacks of Peavine by Francis M. Faber Jr./Hayward C. Beach/WerterBuch/Zygmunt Zikorra/Hans Fabermann/Frances Marie Fabre.
https://www.poetry.com/poem/44049/camelbacks-of-peavine
Very much enjoyed :) https://sierranevadageotourism.org/e...7-9b0e7be3ca93
"The double moon, one on the high back drop of the west, one on the curve of the" - Carl Sandburg River Moons... https://www.bartleby.com/231/0525.html
:lol::)https://sierranevadageotourism.org/e...7-9b0e7be3ca93
The things you dig up!
River moons...! Beautiful poem!
"Everyone suddenly burst out singing;" Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon
https://poets.org/poem/everyone-sang
Had to rely on an analysis of Everyone Sang... https://literarydevices.net/everyone-sang/
"Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers," - Edgar Allan Poe To Zante... https://poets.org/poem/zante#:~:text...parted%20bliss!
Thanks for the thread. I just though the poem might refer to war, but it provided the background.
I think I prefer Poe´s poems to his short stories.
"GUDE pity me, because I’m little!" Adam Armour’s Prayer by Robert Burns
https://www.bartleby.com/6/79.html
A reference to William Wallace... one of my great Grandfathers was named after him. :) A bawdy poem if ever I read.
""Halt! Who goes there?" the sentry's call" - Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson Santa Claus... https://www.poetry.com/poem/2593/santa-claus
Reread the poem. Indeed! I must have read it in a hurry without understanding much( Iliked the Scottish dialect) or I wouldn´t have chosen it.:blush2:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wallace. Have you Scottish ascendancy?
Enjoyed the Christmas poem.
"It goes on being Alexandria still. Just walk a bit" Exiles by Constantine P. Cavafy
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...afy/poems/6523
Yes to Scottish ancestry on my Father's side... possibly on my Mother's side - but mostly English & Irish there. :)
Cavafy is quite a surprise... found a webpage that explains the poet and his poem (about halfway down the page). Humor and history, amongst others, a recurring theme. I laughed inwardly with this passage from another poem:"Just dont taste good." - Joe Poewhit I Want Water... https://poemfull.com/joe-poewhit/i-w...ter/index.htmlQuote:
The speaker of “In a Township of Asia Minor” has just dictated a lavishly flattering proclamation in honor of Anthony’s anticipated victory at Actium. Learning that Octavius has defeated Anthony, the speaker merely instructs his amanuensis to substitute Octavius’s name for Anthony’s, adding “It all fits brilliantly.”
LoL! Cavafy seems to be very familiar with politics! While I write I can hear the political propaganda outside. Elections next month maybe the most important of our republican times. Asking for prayers!
"I want water" is an interesting and very opportune poem.
"THE keen stars were twinkling,"To Jane: The Keen Stars Were Twinklingby Percy Bysshe Shelley
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/shell01.html#7
Wonderful poem: "Where music and moonlight and feeling / Are one." :)
"Lighting one candle" - Yosa Buson Lighting one candle... https://www.best-poems.net/yosa_buso...ne_candle.html
Synthetic and to the point.
Again saved by Emily Dickinson:
"Mama never forgets her birds," Mama never forgets her birds by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poetry.com/poem/11940/ma...gets-her-birds
:) L7 "sparrows fall" and L8 "notices" in quotes an interesting device.
"Now Morning from her orient chamber came," - John Keats Imitation of Spenser... http://keats-poems.com/imitation-of-spenser/
I wonder why she used it at all.
"Now Morning from her orient chamber came," Luxuriously romantic!
"O my grandmother" O My Grandmother by Shashikant Sharma
https://www.poetry.com/poem/80569/o-my-grandmother
Sweet homage to Grandmother :)
"Put heartbreak to rest" - Harpreet M. Dayal Put Heartbreak To Rest... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/po...tbreak-to-rest
A wise poem!
"QUICKLY and pleasantly the seasons blow" Quickly and pleasantly the seasons blow by Robert Hillyer.
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/...llyer01.html#2
"Over the meadows of eternity,"... the second line qualifier puts things in perspective. Seasons in their moment seem to take forever.
"Romance who loves to nod and sing" - E.A. Poe Romance... https://poemanalysis.com/edgar-allan-poe/romance/
Why you are conciliating me with Ed.gar Allan Poe. This poem is really interesting and the analysis helpfull
"Sleepwalking she prepared breakfast". To Sylvia Plath by Yahia Lababidi
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...di/poems/23485
Lol... I find Poe complex yet accessible, not unlike Emily Dickinson :)
Re: To Sylvia Plath... to portray Sylvia in this light saddens me. However, it also reminded me of our absent poet paperleaves (not by the context of the poem) :)
Ok, something more familiar:
"The leaves were long, the grass was green," - J. R. R. Tolkien Tinuviel... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ien/poems/1876
You are right about "To Sylvia Plath". It doesn´t say anything about her as a poet. It reminds me of a beautiful song ( about poet Alfonsina Storni, an Argentinian poet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonsina_Storni, that drowned herself in the sea:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4H-Jcet1M4. The lyrics are in Spanish, but even so I think it is possible to perceive its beauty specially if the ear is not untrained to Spanish. It identifies the poet with the elements of the sea, asks what new kind of poems she was pursuing and says that she disappeared "dressed in sea".
Enjoyed the "Summernights Dream" atmosphere of Tolkien's poem.
"Under black yew-trees, in the shade," Owls by Charles Baudelaire
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...aire/owls-8981
Re: Alfonsina Storni -... very accomplished as a single mother; a poetic albeit tragic death. Beautiful music and video.Quote:
Though she was known mainly for her poetic works, she also wrote prose, journalistic essays, and drama.
Would love to be able to read and understand Baudelaire's poetry in French: "The owls have kept themselves apart;/Like strange divinities, they dart/The red eye, as they meditate."
"Victor in Drama, Victor in Romance," - Alfred Tennyson To Victor Hugo... https://monadnock.net/tennyson/hugo.html
Enjoyed immensely this loving and courteous poem:
"Weird Titan by thy winter weight of years
As yet unbroken, Stormy voice of France!
Who dost not love our England--so they say;
I know not--England, France, all man to be
Will make one people ere man's race be run:
And I, desiring that diviner day,
Yield thee full thanks for thy full courtesy
To younger England in the boy my son.
"Who's that I hear?—It's me—Who?—Your heart" The Debate Between Villon And His Heart by Francois Villon
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...on/poems/11278
re: Francois Villon... "Once I'm dead I'll rise above it—
God, what comfort—What wise eloquence—
I've nothing more to tell you—I'll survive without it—"... quite the struggle.
"xanthic:" - Ivy Alvarez X... https://www.ivyalvarez.com/poetry/x/
Interesting words poem!
"Ye in the age gone by", The Gods Of Greece by Friedrich Schiller
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...f-greece-30692
A very dense poem of Hellenic virtue. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Götter_Griechenlandes
A shorter translated version here (evidently to assuage the critics): https://www.bartleby.com/270/9/2.html
Prolly a repeat...
"Zut! it's two o'clock." - Robert William Service; Noctambule... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ctambule-31020
re: Some of Schiller´s poems are very long. This one here the German schoolchildren had to learn by heart (don´t know if they still do):yricstranslate.com/de/das-lied-von-der-glocke-song-bell.html
Enjoyed Noctambule. Don´t remember having read it before:
"A tiger comes to mind. The twilight here" The Other Tiger by Jorge Luis Borges
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ges/poems/2934
Loved "Song of the Bell"... the English translation with its poetic license came out very nice. https://lyricstranslate.com/de/das-l...song-bell.html . I would be hard pressed to memorize this wonderful poem.
I made a document with a more direct translation (without poetic license) using imTranslator side by side with the poetic translation and the original German version in a googledoc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...it?usp=sharing
Jorge Luis Borges works are wonderful; a short article: https://library.csun.edu/SCA/Peek-in...reaming-borges
"Between the woods the afternoon" - Alan Alexander Milne; The Mirror... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8518913-T...-by-A.A.-Milne
re: "Song of the Bell". I think this first translation tries to emulate the German syntax and the vocabulary of that time, which makes it sound artificial and stilted. Your poetic sensibility promptly detected this. Your translation sounds much more natural and up to date. I would perhaps translate some words a bit differently, for example "cooper paste or brew" instead of "cooper porridge", but I generally prefer it. While looking for letter "c", I came upon this translation, which seems to be much better than the stilted one:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ler/poems/7717
"A child draws the outline of a body." Portrait by Louise Gluck
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ck/poems/15770
Schiller: Will revisit later...
Louise Gluck: Sweet poem :)
"Dick Mid’s large bluish face without eyebrows" - e.e. cummings; “Sonnets—Realities XX”... https://cummings.ee/book/and/poem/sonnets-realities-xx/
Cummings- a curious poet I learnt to know because of this game. :)
"THE empress of the year, the meadows' queen," June by John Payne
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/payne02.html#8
Re: Schiller - yes, a more poetic translation
Payne's poem makes me question: who is the bard of Iran ? Perhaps
• Rumi, or
•"Hafez, the bard of Shiraz, is especially beloved and regarded as the premier Persian poet. It is his dīvān that can be found in every home beside the Quran, and every Iranian has at least one — if not many — of his couplets memorized."... or
• "Ferdowsi. Ferdowsi is perhaps Iran's most famous poet, credited for writing the Shahnameh, the national epic of the Persian speaking world and the longest work of epic poetry ever written, composed of more than 60,000 verses." or
• Rūdakī "Often referred to as the father of modern Persian poetry, the ninth-century Persian poet Abū 'Abdallāh Rūdakī (858–ca. 941) is regarded as the first great literary genius of modern Persian and the founder of Persian classical literature. His name is based on his place of birth, the town of Rudak in Tajikistan."
• or...
... Dunno.
"From my distress:" - Sappho; 17... https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/sappho/sappho0.htm#17 ... entire fragment: ""From my distress: let buffeting winds bear it and all care away."
re: Payne. No idea. There seem to be several good poets.
Sappho with translations from Greek :)
"Gentlest of critics, does your memory hold" To My Mother by Alfred Joyce Kilmer (Joyce)
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...y-mother-21643
Sweet sonnet :)
"Here I sit," - Brittany Ann; Here I Sit... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/4217164/here-i-sit/
Very much to the point!
"I wish I could take a quiet corner in the heart of my baby's very" Baby's World by Rabindranath Tagore
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ore/poems/2206
Tagore: Wonderful poetry... His poetry translated by himself ! Must follow up on his works :)
"Jazz is a sense of humour:" - Anubis the Philosomancer; J-a-double-z, baby!... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1150316/j-a-double-z-baby/