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Wonderful poem... had to access it here: http://www.bonniemanion.com/poems/poem.php?id=207 :)
"BEWARE of those who slyly pilch " - Norman Rowland Gale; The Amateur Photographer... https://allpoetry.com/The-Amateur-Photographer
I see!
Didn't the poetry atlas link work with you?
Enjoyed The Amateur Phothographer!
"Calm, azure, marble sea,"."At Lyme Regis by Francis Turner Palgrave
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...yme-regis.html
http://www.lyme-regis.com/B-Jane-Austen-and-Palgrave-B
It would flash the map for a moment then give me an error:
"This page can't load Google Maps correctly.
Do you own this website? OK"
Enjoyed the poem and the Jane Austin reference... was disturbed by the lack of an end quote (lol) :) "Lyme Regis is a town in west Dorset, England, 25 miles west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", it lies by the English Channel at the Dorset–Devon border. It has noted fossils in cliffs and beaches on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site and heritage coast." Wikipedia
"Don’t go in search of the perfect" - Kai Carlson-Wee; Bracken... https://poets.org/poem/bracken
Same here but the poem is visible. The site is curious: sometimes I can read the poem sometimes not for copyright reasons.
Enjoyed Bracken, but things aren't easy:"The worm lives a whole year in darkness".
"Each saucy cit who strolls from town"."Written near Bath, 1755
by Richard Graves
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...h%2C-1755.html
True... poetry doesn't always come in bright circumstances.
While others might find Bath dreary the protagonist finds delight... Enjoyed :)
FIE, pleasure, fie! thou cloyest me with delight; " - George Gascoigne; Fie, Pleasure, Fie!... https://allpoetry.com/Fie,-Pleasure,-Fie!
Lol! Enjoyed the poem about the virtues of moderation, but don't posses them?
"Gilbert had sailed to India's shore,"."The Vampirine Fair
by Thomas Hardy
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...rine-fair.html
Good grief! A reluctant gold digger.
"Harmony shall echo" - Sri Chinmoy... https://www.srichinmoypoetry.com/sel...about-harmony/
Echoing the feeling of the poem!
"I am the Reaper "."I am the Reaper." by William Henley
https://allpoetry.com/I-Am-The-Reaper
Colorless poem of life and death... enjoyed :)
"Joining me for now" - Kim Barney; Junco Acrostic... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/squa...oogle_vignette
Charming acrostic!
"Kaiserstadt Wien!"."Vienna" by Ricarda Huch translation by Timothy Adès
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/5453/vienna.html
Recently watched part of a series about the Habsburgs.. specifically Empress Elisabeth :) Enjoyed the homage to Wien :)
"Living in a stone den is a poet-" - Hu Mingfu; Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-E..._the_Stone_Den
An unique poem that seems to change with the evolution of the Chinese language itself.
Our Empress Leopoldina, wife to Pedro I, was also from the house of Habsburg.
"Mr. Macklin takes his knife"." Mr. Macklin’s Jack O’Lantern" by David McCord
https://poets.org/poem/mr-macklins-jack-olantern
:)
Delightful Halloween poem... Enjoyed :)
"Now as Heaven is my Lot, they're the Pests of the Nation!" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge;
A Soliloquy of the Full Moon, She Being in a Mad Passion... https://allpoetry.com/A-Soliloquy-Of...-A-Mad-Passion
Lol! Moon opining about poets! Enjoyed ¡
"On the way to Kew,"!":"On the way to Kew," by William Henley
https://allpoetry.com/On-The-Way-To-Kew
My Mother lived in that general area of England as a child... I can imagine her as the protagonist. Enjoyed :)
"PERCHED on my city office-stool," - Wilfred Gibson ; The Ice-Cart ...https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/ice-cart
Loved The Ice -Cart sliding into a dream
A poem by Li Qi:
"Through the bright day up the mountain, we scan the sky for a". "An Old War Song " by Li Qi
https://www.cn-poetry.com/liqi-poetry/old-war-song.html
As the summary stated an unusual anti-war poem for the period... Enjoyed :)
"Robbie was the master of the robot pig helicopter for sure." - PinkFaerie5; Robot Pig Helicopter... https://allpoetry.com/poem/17620621-...by-PinkFaerie5
Enjoyed the playfulness of this poem!
"Stranger! if from the crowded walks of life"."Inscription" by Alaric Alexander Watts
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8572911-I...lexander-Watts
Solace and solitude... a nice couplet... Enjoyed :)
"The nation’s destiny is intertwined as a thicket of coiled rattan" - Zen Master PHAP THUAN (DO PHAP THUAN); The Nation’s Destiny... https://share.google/kYKDBTDLZx3zekm0C
Enjoyed the poem and the page of Vietnamese poems. How did you find it? I sometimes look for a different site, but I usually don’t find it.
"Under bare Ben Bulben's head"."Under Ben Bulben - VI
by William Butler Yeats
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...ulben--vi.html
Wild card google searches.
Yeats' own funerary poem it appears... Enjoyed :)
"Virtue, the greatest of all monarchies!" - Jonathan Swift; Ode To The Hon. Sir William Temple... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...m-temple-35791
Charming poem, the institutions and words may be old, but much of the sentiment sounds up to date. I like Swift and his Gulliver very much.
"We know them as gray lumps in the road," "Oh, Possum" by Steve Straight
http://www.versedaily.org/2022/ohpossum.shtml
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An homage to an expired 'possum... Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:
"Ribbed cuffs & taper" - Rex Ybañez; Sweater Weather... https://peculiarmormyrid.com/rex-ybanez/
Ai!
Loved the luxurious language of Mr Ybañez poem:"enunciating the curvature of
caricatures, drawing" or as he says himself
"YE ’ve seen the blooming rosy brier,"."Jean of Aberdeen " by Alexander Laing
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...-aberdeen.html
As fair a fairy is Jean of Aberdeen... loved this Scottish homage to a lady fair. Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:
"A flowering orchid in spring, " - Zhang Jiuling; ORCHID AND ORANGE I ... https://100tangpoems.wordpress.com/2...id-and-orange/
Much enjoyed the poem and the beautiful flower pictures.Thanks!
"A child is bumbling along the boardwalk"."Point Pelee" by Mark Nenadov
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...int-pelee.html
"placed by providence / with a wonderful symmetry / like gems set perfectly on display / eye candy for the walkers"... Enjoyed :)
"BEWARE of those who slyly pilch " - Norman Rowland Gale ; The Amateur Photographer... https://allpoetry.com/The-Amateur-Photographer
A warning! Enjoyed it's originalty.
"Calm, azure, marble sea,"At Lyme Regis
by Francis Turner Palgrave
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...yme-regis.html
Lyme Regis must be a very beautiful place... Enjoyed :)
"Drifting, drifting, light and free," - Mordekaiserblu; Jellyfish... https://allpoetry.com/poem/18534748-...Mordekaiserblu
Enjoyed this poem full of rythmical waves!
"Egg Rock, if thou art so lonely now,"."Egg Rock"
by Antoinette Purinton
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po.../egg-rock.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_Rock
"And then in softened murmur's lullaby / In mournful cadence, with the sea bird's cry." and "Peace be still". :) Enjoyed the wiki too :).
"FROM the great trees the locusts cry" - Hamlin Garland; In August... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8562543-I...Hamlin-Garland
Loved this atmospheric poem!
"GEM of all isthmuses and isles that lie,"."SIRMIO"
by Gaius Valerius Catullus
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/602/sirmio.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirmium
One of the most vulgar of poets this poem is tame in comparison; an homage to Sirmione: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirmione
"harvest moon--" - Kobayashi Issa; harvest moon--... http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...est-moon-.html
Didn't know that! Now rhere are two of them, lol! And both knew Roman times!
Enjoyed Issa's Haiku.
"I SAW these dreamers of dreams go by,"."The Gold Seekers" by Hamlin Garland
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8562523-T...Hamlin-Garland
Enjoyed the Gold Country poem... true the allure for gold is great (now $4000/oz / $141.1/g / R$ 754.89/g) I'm hoping to get a metal detector soon :)
"Jack was jumping around trying to feed his snowman a sandwich of PBJ" - The Poetic Angel; Jumping Jack...( double Acrostic)... https://allpoetry.com/poem/3797831-J...-Poetic-Angel/
Lol, You are going to check if there's gold in your country?
Enjoyed the double acrostic.
"KAZAN looks down from the Volga wall,"."Kazan« by Edna Dean Proctor
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/3177/kazan.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazan
I do live in Gold Country... my Son-in-law has found some gold flakes hereabout :)
Interesting historical poem of a rich heritage region. "The major Russian poet Gavrila Derzhavin was born in Kazan in 1743"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrila_Derzhavin Enjoyed both the poem and the wiki :)
"Love was in the hopelessness of you," - Richard Maxson; Monster... https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/201...for-halloween/
:) l need to find some gold flakes in my apartment but no chance!
Found some poems by GavriilRomanovich Derzhavin:https://allpoetry.com/Gavrila-Romanovich-Derzhavin
Enjoyed very much this poem about Frankenstein.
"Malaya's woods and mountains ring"."Dirge of the Departed Year
by John Leyden
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...rted-year.html
Lol :)
G.D.'s God: "Thou showest yourself through me / Like sun inside a tiny water drop." :) Nice find. I enjoyed his poetry very much :)
J.L.: "But let me brush the nightly dews, / Beside the shell-depainted shore, / And mid the sea-weeds sit to muse / On days that shall return no more." Enjoyed :)
"NOW tranquil beauty is no more," - Margaret Chalmers; To the Autumnal Equinox... https://allpoetry.com/To-the-Autumnal-Equinox
Beautiful poem musing on the changing of the four seasons of the year.
"O harp, with whom my childhood played," ."To My Lyre" by James Avis Bartley
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8618321-T...s-Avis-Bartley