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Shiraz Bautista; One Fragile Prayer-Radical but identify often with these feelings of loss and being lost.
"Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring,".Sonnet On Hearing The Dies Irae Sung In The Sistine Chapel by Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...e-chapel-36211
I agree with Wilde... https://www.google.com/search?client...cogix3cwQ,st:0 Not in the Sistine Chapel but a wee bit frenetic for such a storied edifice.
"Oh, cabaret dancer, I know a dancer," - Vachel Lindsay; How A Little Girl Danced... https://allpoetry.com/How-A-Little-Girl-Danced
Thanks for this background research, tailor! I was even a bit in doubt if Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was THE Oscar Wilde with this serious poem. Good to know about the Irate Days as they seem to be back.
Beautiful poem: "I know a dancer, I know a dancer,/Who lifts us toward peace, from this earth that is vain".
"Passion sits on the skull". "Passion And The Skull" by Charles Baudelaire
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...the-skull-9031
A rather odd vision of bubbles... enjoyed :)
"Quick! we have but a second" - Thomas Moore; Quick! We Have But a Second... https://www.poetry.com/poem/36890/qu...e-but-a-second
Charming drinking song!"Quick! We Have But a Second..." Live and enjoy yourself while you can.
"Redbirds, redbirds,"."Redbirds by SaraTeasdale
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/...lame01.html#11
Wonderful poem! "Trailing stately round her bluffs / Where the poplars grow --" :)
"Since ere I left my native isle," - Nora Pembroke; To Isabel... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembr...abella-stewart
re "Redbirds": lol!
Beautiful poem!
"There is a thing in me that dreamed of trees,"."A Dream of Trees" by Mary Oliver
https://www.poetrycat.com/mary-oliver/a-dream-of-trees
"I would have time, I thought, and time to spare, / With only streams and birds for company. / To build out of my life a few wild stanzas. / And then it came to me, that so was death,"... Incredible ! :)
"Upon the shore, a mile or more" - Guy Wetmore Carryl; The Rude Rat And The Unostentatious Oyster... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...s-oyster-12874
"The Rude Rat And The Unostentatious Oyster" Lol! A charming poem, more fluid still with its internal rhymes.
"Voices out of the shade that cried,"."Flight" by Rupert Brooke
https://www.rupertbrooke.com/poems/1908-1911/flight/
Sad moving poem :)
"Walking through trees to cool my heat and pain," - Robert von Ranke Graves; Not Dead... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...not-dead-37802
This one too: sad and beautiful.
Poem with X in the title:
"Around Xmas time". "Xmas Wish" by Douglas Scotney
https://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369516
Timely poem, enjoyed especially S2 :)
"You are what you eat" - Deepak Kumar Pattanayak; Appetite... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/appetite-9/
Very interesting poem about eating habits. Enjoyed.
Two songs of a play with a title starting with "Z":
"A sunny shaft did I behold,"."Zapolya" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
https://verse.press/poem/songs-from-...-zapolya-19859
Enjoyed the first much better: "... Sweet bird, thou wert enchanted! // He sank, he rose, he twinkled, he trolled / Within that shaft of sunny mist; / His eyes of fire, his beak of gold, / All else of amethyst!" :)
"A beautiful form and a beautiful face," - Fannie Isabelle Sherrick; Two Pictures... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...pictures-31613
re: Me too.
"Two Pictures...". Meaningful. Unfortunately the number of hungry people has only increased.
"Beneath all this I’m carving a cathedral"."Cathedral of Salt" by Nick Flynn
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/cathedral-of-salt/