Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Love this poem :) The Martian Poetry Movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_poetry

"Never for Society" - Emily Dickinson; Never for Society/746... https://allpoetry.com/Never-for-Society

Well I never! Amazing, got the poem:https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poe...-postcard-home

"One sister is leaving for Sweden."."The Sisters" by Terence Winch
https://allpoetry.com/poem/14375406-...-Terence-Winch

Awesome Martian poem :)

Intriguing and thoughtful treatise on sisterhood, I believe. Enjoyed :)

Fudging just a bit:

"And it was at that age… Poetry arrived" - Pablo Neruda; Poetry... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8496929-P...y-Pablo-Neruda

Lol... I think this poem over-awed the AI :)

Wonderful Neruda poem. Even AI got into the mood.

Poem by a poet with "Q" in his name.
"You were foreordained to find the source."."Farewell to a Japanese Buddhist Priest Bound Homeward"
- Poetry of Qian Qi
https://www.cn-poetry.com/qianqi-poe...st-priest.html

Almost dreamy: "The water and the moon are as calm as your faith,"... Enjoyed :)

"Row" - Reflectionshadow; Journeyward Backwards... https://allpoetry.com/poem/18515488-...flectionshadow

ingenious poem? Postmodern Auswegslosigkeit ( no way out of present circunstances)

"Swing to the harbor from the deep sea,"At Anchor" by Ina Donna Coolbrith
https://allpoetry.com/At-Anchor

Ausgeseichnet! A new word :)

My goodness, what an awesome poem, lovingly crafted... Enjoyed :)

"They are the snowflakes" - Little Dragonfly; Whispers... https://allpoetry.com/poem/16431016-...ttle-Dragonfly

:)

"Whispers"- tender and powerful.


"UNTO the earth the Summer comes again:"Sometime " by Ina Donna Coolbrith
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8560989-S...onna-Coolbrith

Ina has such a deft hand in personifying Summer; wonderful poem :)

"Very sick and tired am I Of stewed prunes, and apples dried," - MacInnes Tom; Villanelle of Mutton... https://www.poemine.com/MacInnes-Tom...of-Mutton.html

Original way of expressing that he is fed up.


"Walk slowly along the forty miles of tanks"."How to Love your Enemies" by Eric Paul Schaffer
http://www.versedaily.org/2024/howto...renemies.shtml

A war poem with heart... enjoyed :)

Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:

"My strength plucked up the hills," - Xiang Yu; Song of Gaixia... https://www.cn-poetry.com/xiangyu-po...ixia-song.html

Ai! A-sad song made for the poet's horse!

"You send me your poems,"."Conspiracy" by Robert Creeley
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8511985-T...Robert-Creeley

Enjoyed this playful? poem :)

Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:

"forbidden door Palace tree moon trace pass" - Zhang Gu; Send a gift to the palace’s singers and dancers... https://www.classicchinesepoetry.com/tag/zhang-gu/

Beautiful poem! You surely read the more complete second translation below the first one.

"A storm has brought down the last of the leaves."."The Wanderer " by Alison Hicks
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/thewanderer.shtml

Of course :)

Lost in a book ? Enjoyed :)

"Because I cannot sleep" - Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi; Because I cannot sleep... https://www.poemine.com/Mewlana-Jala...not-sleep.html

Interesting poem. Produced in a moment of sleeplessness?

"Constantly near you, I never in my entire"."The Horse Show" by William Carlos Williams
https://allpoetry.com/The-Horse-Show

Sleep: perhaps, Rumi was quite prolific in his writing/utterances to scribes and has even become the "best selling poet" in the United States according to sources"... "(His) letters testify that Rumi kept very busy helping family members and administering a community of disciples that had grown up around them."... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi

A tender poem in a different style I hadn't seen before, separate from his use of lighthearted minimalism... Enjoyed :)

"DragonFly trapped in solid amber" - L G Mace; DragonFly In Amber... https://allpoetry.com/poem/18548060-...er-by-L-G-Mace

Strong image!Poor Dragonfly!


"Eternal Time, that wastest without waste, That art and art not, diest, and livest still;Most slow of all, and yet of greatest" Eternal Time, that wastest without waste" by Anonymous
https://www.poemine.com/Anonymous/Et...out-Waste.html

Anonymous at her best at explaining eternal time... Enjoyed :)

"Fair little scout, that when the iron year" - Archibald Lampman; The Song Sparrow... https://www.poemine.com/Archibald-La...g-Sparrow.html

Anonymous is talented!

Charming spring song.


"Glum is the sky, by night imprisoned,""Glum is the sky" by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev
https://allpoetry.com/Gum-Is-The-Sky

So glad no forest fire from lightning as it happens here on occasion, gloomy but benign... unless that's what the sky is hatching?! Enjoyed :)

"How about we peer through the windowed centuries," - Mr. Numi Who-; Upon Sweet Flowering Amethysts... https://allpoetry.com/poem/16997767-...Mr.-Numi-Who-/

I don't know if they have these burnings in Russia or whatever landscape the poet had in mind when he wrote that poem.

Very original use of language by Mr Numi. But I would have to read the poem more times to understand what it actually is about.


"I will light novels on fire, hold them high, let syntax drip"."The Ghazai I Asked For"
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/theg...askedfor.shtml

Mr N's poem: Seems to be a stream of consciousness poem that leaves the reader out of the equation.

A poet in search of words IMHO ?

"Jonah, Jonah I spat you out" - Sea Opal; Jonah's Indigestion... https://allpoetry.com/poem/16028787-...n--by-Sea-Opal

Lol!

Yes, maybe or sensations produced by language.?

Lollolol! Enjoyed Sea Opal's sense of humour and the inversion of the story with the fish !

"KNOW you the river near to Grez,"."KNOW you the river near to Grez"
https://www.poemine.com/Robert-Louis...r-To-Grez.html

Wonderful poem :) Summary and some facts:

• https://allpoetry.com/Know-You-The-River-Near-To-Grez
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grez-sur-Loing

"Look at the letters" - RebeccaRose; Learn... https://allpoetry.com/poem/18626828-...by-RebeccaRose

Thanks for the links tailor. I thought Grez was somewhere in Scotland.

Enjoyed the poem about learning

"MY words are the poor footmen of your pride,"."Full Orchestra " by Kenneth Slessor
https://allpoetry.com/Full-Orchestra

Strange images in this sonnet... thank heavens for the summary. Enjoyed :)

"Neither clown nor child nor black" - Pablo Neruda; Magellanic Penguin... https://www.poemine.com/Pablo-Neruda...c-Penguin.html

Beautiful poem possibly more beautiful in the original.


"O foolish wisdom sought in books!"."Longing" by Ina Donna Coolbrith
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8561255-L...onna-Coolbrith

The AI doesn't take into account the extra burden of being a woman tied to a household. Another deft poem... Enjoyed :)

"Pacing those empty halls" - Ianthia; Caged... https://allpoetry.com/poem/18520932-Caged--by-Ianthia

Caged- the same poem þransmits theb stifling sensation of someone that feels imprisoned.


Poem by a poet with "Q" in her name:
"In the snowy yard the Spring"."In the Snowy Yard Spring arrived" by Li Quinzhao
https://www.cn-poetry.com/liqingzhao...nowy-yard.html

Caged: An impression of Mrs. Winchester in her mansion, not too far from where I used to live and next to a movie complex I used to attend to watch '80's films... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House

Beautiful poem... Enjoyed :)

"radiant radiation is now the latest cancer" - Jim baruffi; [ radiant radiation is now the latest cancer ]... https://allpoetry.com/poem/18455805-...by-jim-baruffi

Thanks for the link. Loved the Winchester house specially the stained windows. I once was very near San José in Stanford University

Cryptic poem

«Something is very gently,"."The Thread" by Denise Levertov

https://allpoetry.com/The-Thread

Threads... "a stirring / of wonder makes me / catch my breath when I feel / the tug of it" Enjoyed :)

"The stars are mansions built by Nature's hand," - William Wordsworth; The Stars Are Mansions Built By Nature's Hand ... https://www.poemine.com/William-Word...re-s-Hand.html

Lovely Wordsworth poem!

"Unbreakable, O Lord,"."Unbreakable" by Mirabai
https://www.poemine.com/Mirabai/Unbreakable.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirabai

Incredible poem of longing... Enjoyed :)

"Voila!" - Claude-Faustus; Tribute to "V for Vendetta... https://allpoetry.com/poem/9404493-T...Claude-Faustus

Lol. Well executed with rhythm and style. Never watched the film.

"Whenever I find myself in a room"."Clumps of Happiness" by Tishani Doshi
http://www.versedaily.org/2018/clumpsofhappiness.shtml

The simple familiarity and mundaneness of family over the sterile setting of the privileged :) Enjoyed.

Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:

"on a street bench" - Yu Xiang/Translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain; Love Letter... https://granta.com/two-poems-yu-xiang/

Charming descriptive poem. Enjoyed!


"You can't know how it feels." "The Wolf Man" by Abigail Parry
http://www.versedaily.org/2018/thewolfman.shtml

Enjoyed the retrospective of the Wolf Man :) Interesting poet: "Abigail Parry spent seven years as a toymaker before completing her doctoral thesis on wordplay. Her poems have been set to music, translated into Spanish and Japanese, broadcast on BBC and RTÉ Radio, and widely published in journals and anthologies." :)

Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:

"My hands itch" - Zane Yinger; My Hunger is Real... https://www.poetryxhunger.com/hunger...by-zane-yinger

Abigail.:)

Zane, a punch in the stomach. Enjoyed!

"At dusk, the screech owls warn us with a bounce""."The Nature of Nurture" by Jen Karetnick
http://www.versedaily.org/2024/thenatureofnurture.shtml