Enjoyed this poetic definition of Jazz.
Disregarding a bit the rules because I liked this poem, with "k" in the title:
"Broken ivories". The Keys by Erica Jong.
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/keys
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Enjoyed this poetic definition of Jazz.
Disregarding a bit the rules because I liked this poem, with "k" in the title:
"Broken ivories". The Keys by Erica Jong.
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/keys
A self-aware dream of flying done well :)
"The laughter of women sets fire" - Lisel Mueller; The Laughter Of Women... https://www.poetrycat.com/lisel-muel...ghter-of-women
Enjoyed immensely!
"Mild The Mist Upon The Hill". Emily Brontė, Mild The Mist Upon The Hill
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mild...upon-the-hill/
A rather melancholy tone... looking back and not forward.
"Noise" - © Divine Tan; Noise... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/noise-3
re: Maybe she was already ill. Emily Brontė died very young.
Interesting Concrete poem.
"O a fat turkey gobbler once sat on a limb" The Sad Turkey Gobbler by Edwin C. Ranck
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-gobbler-29031
Delightful poem... after googling, the quote comes from Elizabeth Akers Allen's poem "Rock Me to Sleep, Mother"... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ck-me-to-sleep wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizab...d%20journalist.
"Parasol trees age side by side," - Meng Jiao; Song Of Fidelity Poem... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/song-of-fidelity/
What a powerful poem is "Rock me to Sleep, Mother". Poor turkey!
"Parasol trees age side by side," A beautiful poem, but does it fit with reality?
"Quaint and forgotten, by an unused road," The Old House by Madison Julius Cawein
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ld-house-36918
Parasol trees: Apparently yes and no, as most things are:https://www.healthline.com/health/fu...bout-the-heartQuote:
The loss of a spouse takes a heavy toll on older adults. Scientists say there are medical as well as other reasons they develop broken heart syndrome.
I think the sentimental/romantic/poetic view is what Meng Jiao is alluding to. I've witnessed the terrible longing a surviving spouse has gone through... the stress on the mind, body, and spirit is quite "stantial" (more than substantial).
The Old House: I find abandoned homes/buildings/etc. fascinating: https://www.treehugger.com/dreamlike...nature-4859183
"Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud" - John Keats; Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud... http://keats-poems.com/read-me-a-les...speak-it-loud/
Double because of editing
re: Parasol Trees. My question was really stupid! There is so much beauty in people ageing together, no matter what they“ve gone through together or separately specially in our unstable times.
re: Thanks for the wonderful link, tailor. One wants to set ones feet on the road just to visit these beautiful places.
"Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud". Powerful poem about the mists that surround owns possibilities of knowledge:
"Thus much I know that, a poor witless elf,
I tread on them, that all my eye doth meet
Is mist and crag, not only on this height,
But in the world of thought and mental might!"
"Soon the present will arrive". Soon by Michael Palmer
https://griffinpoetryprize.com/poem/soon/
You're welcome :)
Interesting poem... I love living in the future figuratively... cheap motels, however, no longer exist.
"The sun shines bright, the morning's fair," - Patrick Brontė; The Spider and the Fly... https://allpoetry.com/The-Spider-And-The-Fly
Interesting poem. A tailor find. I was wondering when and where Branwell's poems were published. Here some more about him:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branwell_Bront%C3%AB
"Under a spreading chestnut-tree" he Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
https://poets.org/poem/village-blacksmith
Actually Branwell's (Branwell Patrick Brontė) Father, Patrick... quite an accomplished family; the patriarch Patrick outlived them all... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Brontė
Classic Longfellow :)
"Venus is sleeping with Fire" - Harry Crosby; Ritual... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ritual-12/
Yes and he married again, afterwards. beginning a new life, I think in Ireland. But I never knew or forgot completely that he also wrote poetry. This poem can be found in Cottage Poems which can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/author/Bront%C3%AB,+Patrick. Maybe they are of interest for your poetry thursdays as they are moral poems, I liked the spider poem.
Ritual, interesting poem!
"water for dance" evening by W. Jude Aher
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...er/poems/21269
:) Downloaded the HTML version for later perusal.
Ah, to walk the streets of Paris ! DieterM http://www.online-literature.com/for...?68850-DieterM was a past contributor to LitNet that lived in Paris last I heard... this poem made me think of him.
As X first line poems are becoming more and more difficult to find... I offer this poem in the spirit of X...
"Hand shaking on the stop-****, she looks" - Imtiaz Dharker; X... https://www.theguardian.com/environm...imtiaz-dharker
re: Remember the Austrian poet, Dieter M quite well, he was still here when I came to LitNet. But the link you posted opens on his still open profile page.
Impressive poem! (but I always have to smile at the censorship of the LitNet algorithm.)
"Yumping over crossings," Stealing A Ride by William F. Kirk
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...g-a-ride-21861
Enjoyed this vernacular poem by yumpin' yimini !:)
This from that website you cannot access I believe :(
"Zen click. Zen click. Zen click." - Annabel Wilson; Provencal... http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...provencal.html
Also published in an issue of the Wanaka Sun (which is just as inaccessible for me) :(
Lol! What did you do to the website? This time the poem appeared(no VPN), on the side of the usual map. Reminded me of the Florida hurricane but in much smaller version. Thanks!
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes". After great pain, a formal feeling comes (372) by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ling-comes-372
(Election day! Going to vote now, accepting prayers and thumbs up. Back later)
Prayers & Good luck !
Heart wrenching poem by E.D.
"by little accurate saints thickly which tread" - e.e. cummings; Sonnets—Actualities IV... https://cummings.ee/book/tulips-and-...ctualities-iv/
:) "by little accurate saints thickly which tread" - e.e. cummings. A very modern poet. Reminds me a bit of Carlos Drummond the Andrade.
"Cat! who has pass’d thy grand climacteric," To a cat by John Keats
https://www.poeticous.com/keats/to-a-cat
lol... a 13-line not so positive bumpity cat poem :)
"Dark flower of Cheshire garden," - Ralph Waldo Emerson; Monadnoc From Afar... https://internetpoem.com/ralph-waldo...rom-afar-poem/
re: True! Didn“t understand the last verse. No cute poems starting with "c" available :(.
"Monadnoc From Afar" A somewhat somber poem. Learned what a monadnock is.
"Early morning over Rouen, hopeful, high, courageous morning,". Rouen (1917) by May Wedderburn Cannan
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/rouen/
Re: "Monadnoc From Afar"... agree; made a perfect target to mashup for the nonsense thread. I know what a Monadnoc is now too :)
Enjoyed Rouen: a somber toned poem too, as it should be in retrospect.
"Fields beneath a quilt of snow" - Sara Teasdale; In The Train... https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10016742
re: Monadnoc -lol!
Enjoyed "Fields beneath a quilt of snow". Delicate images.
"Green Snake, when I hung you round my neck". To the Snake (1958) by Denise Levertov
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/to-the-snake/
Enjoyed :) I imagined a Tiffany, or type, snake necklace as opposed to a real or metaphorical snake: https://www.google.com/search?q=tiff...ih=570&dpr=1.1
"He wasn’t dumb. His intellect was sound" - Wilhelm Busch; Crazy a translation of “Der Narr”... http://satirist.org/poetry/text/me/crazy.html
Impressive snake necklaces!
Wilhelm Busch! Besides poet one of the best German cartoonists ever. Here is his most famous poem. It“s rather long. If you don“t have the time to read all of it, take a look at the cartoons. It“s worthwhile: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2884...-h/28847-h.htm
"I no longer want to consult" The Word by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8594399-T...ond-de-Andrade
Enjoyed :) Poor poultry... Poor Spitzy :( Poor Tailor ! Poor Master Lämpel !! Poor Uncle Fritz ! "two good brots" - lol... "Master Miller's ducks lol !!!
The Word - Very existential and full of spiritual undertones... enjoyed very much :)
"Joćo loved Teresa who loved Raimundo" - Carlos Drummond de Andrade; The Square Dance... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/squa...-of-quadrilha/
re: Max and Maurice. Poor, poor Tailor ( with capital "T", for a better resistance) To complete your impressions on German educational books for children here is the English version of Struwwelpeter. I remember being mortally afraid of this book when I was a child.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1211...-h/12116-h.htm
Love Square Dance:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veiOlXrC7fU
"Knowest thou the land where bloom the lemon trees,"Mignon by James E. Flecker
https://englishverse.com/poems/mignon
Square dance video/music was quite nice; very choral.
Read "Struwwelpeter"... I can see why you were "mortally afraid" :(
"Mignon": Dragons !
"Laegaire, son of the king of Connacht, was out one day with the king his father near" - Isabella Augusta
; The Army Of The Sidhe... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...he-sidhe-17057
Isabella Augusta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gregory. Because of text and theme I thought she was from much earlier times, maybe the late Middle Ages, so I looked her up. An interesting Lady!
Mignon! I stand before a riddle: Mignon is a character Goethe“s novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship). It“s not quite clear to me whether the author of the poem is Goethe or Fletcher, or if one of them is the translator of it.
"The Moon is Up" The Moon is Up by Alfred Noyes
https://allpoetry.com/The-Moon-is-Up
Re: Isabella Augusta: Very accomplished during her long life !
Re: Mignon... all things point to Goethe: https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-11503; see ("From Goethe" link on your page source also)
Re: "The Moon is Up"... a bit ambivalent about the poem. Granted, a rousing sea shanty/poem, but with knowledge of the history of how they obtained their gold and maintained their governments tends to tarnish the bravado :(
"Now all I have is grief and sadness" - Oton de Granson; If I am grieving, no one ought to blame me... https://books.google.com/books?id=pz...e%20is&f=false
It's a google book result, hopefully it is accessible... the source page I found the first line had no links ?
re:The Mignon link denied access. So did the one of the poem of Oton de Granson, but I think you may like this one:
https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/te...n-doit-blasmer (a very sad poem).
"O City, Look the Eastward Way" O City, Look the Eastward Way by Enid Derham
https://www.poetry.com/poem/12749/o-...e-eastward-way
Re: My links - sorry, especially puzzled why the google book results are not accessible for you.
Re: Oton de Granson - Enjoyed :) Thanks for the link ! I sense a political undertone leading to a loss of favor.
Re: "O, City..." - Wonderful poem :) Australian poet b. 1882 - d. 1941:"Poems must rhyme, so they say, simply isn't true. For there are others with depth" - Thomas Plotz; Poems... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poems-104/Quote:
While her poetry was influenced by her classical studies, she was one of the earliest Australian writers to recognise the poetry of Emily Dickinson. wikipedia [4]
re; Prolly because I don“t check in with Google Account> Silent war going on between me and Google account. Silent war between me and Google: I log in with my seldom used Google e-mail. Google declares "uncommon activity in your e-mail ( me logging in) and blocks my account from Microsoft, which now belongs to Google. So I avoid using that gmail.
Enid Derham looks promising thanks for looking her up.
Liked the defense of free verse (Plotz)
"QUINQUIREME of Nineveh from distant Ophir, "Cargoes by John Masefield.
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/masef01.html#2
Nice find :) Cargoes... lol ! A list poem extolling the virtues of Nineveh & Spain vessels' cargo contrasted with a "Dirty British coaster"
"riverly is a flower" - e.e. cummings; Post Impressions II... https://cummings.ee/book/and/poem/post-impressions-ii/
Thanks! Got the impression. that Cargo was only a part of a larger poem. Love these old travel accounts because those travels were part of Brazilian history.
Interesting dark poem by e.e. cummings
The language reminds me of the German Expressionists:
https://www.lifepersona.com/8-expres...-great-authors
"The sun is set; and in his latest beams" A Summer Day By The Sea by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
http://www.online-literature.com/for...82#post1393382
Enjoyed the link of the expressionistas :)
Your link caught me off guard... chose this one: https://allpoetry.com/A-Summer-Day-By-The-Sea
Dark Muse would like this line: "To some the gravestone of a dead delight," :)
"The poet arrives at the station." - Carlos Drummond de Andrade; Social Notes... included in this wonderful collection: http://maxima-library.org/knigi/knig...20?format=read
LOL! The same poem!
Enjoyed the bilingual Drummond so much, several fav poems here!
Fitting for my moment:
"INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FEAR
For the time being we won’t sing of love,
which has fled beyond all undergrounds.
We’ll sing of fear, which sterilizes all hugs.
We won’t sing of hatred, since it doesn’t exist,
only fear exists, our father and our companion,
the dread fear of hinterlands, oceans, deserts,
the fear of soldiers, fear of mothers, fear of churches,
we’ll sing of the fear of dictators, of democrats,
we’ll sing of the fear of death and what’s after death,
then we’ll die of fear,
and fearful yellow flowers will sprout on our tombs."
"UNDER the harvest moon," Under the harvest moon By Carl Sandburg
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/sandb02.html#sand26
re: Drummond - Enjoying his poetry very much.
re: Sandberg - Enjoyed, an analysis: https://poemanalysis.com/carl-sandbu...-harvest-moon/
... and much I didn't know about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sandburg
"Very fair and full of promise" - Francis Bret Harte; St. Thomas... http://www.public-domain-poetry.com/...st-thomas-8740
re: Drummond. Just put the bilingual anthology in another forum. :)
Ihope re: Enjoyed both links on Sandburg. Swedish ascendancy, liked to change names, held a varied quantity of jobs, two Pulitzers...!!
St. Thomas, so true! Updating Bret Hate. I hope our current world won“t have to follow St. Thomas.:(
" Whose broken window is a cry of art". Boy Breaking Glass by Gwendolyn Brooks
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poe...reaking-glass/