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Interesting informations about Auden, thanks. I didn't know that he was married to Erika Mann. And taken out of context the poem has a different meaning as originally intended.
Moons get tired too.
"Up in the cosy chamber,"."Up in the cosy chamber," by Ella Wilcox
https://www.litscape.com/author/Ella...y_Chamber.html
Enjoyed the generational poem of vanity verses grace :)
"Voice of the sea that calls to me," - William Stanley Braithwaite; Voice of the Sea... https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10041024
Beautiful poem! I had some problem with th3 link though.
"Whenever I walk to Suffern along the Erie track"."The House with Nobody In It"
by Joyce Kilmer
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-home/
Odd... me too now.
Delightful sad poem "For it wouldn't be so lonely if it had a ghost or two." Reminds me of Walter De La Mare's poetry:)
Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:
"I am a cloud in the sky" - Xu Zhimo; Chance... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8600881-Chance-by-Xu-Zhimo
Beautiful, delicate poem and realistic.
On another note:
"You may talk of your broilers, both single and double,"."The Old Frying Pan
by James W. Whilt
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/jam...ld-frying-pan/
Beautiful, delicate poem and realistic.
On another note:
"You may talk of your broilers, both single and double,"."The Old Frying Pan
by James W. Whilt
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/jam...ld-frying-pan/
"Why, there's many a woman "cleaned up" on her man / With no other club but the old frying pan."... Lololol !!!
Enjoyed :) FYI - There's a recall on many pans that may leach lead into food.
Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:
"Being a cloud in the sky" - Xu Zhimo; Fortuitousness... https://poetrypacific.blogspot.com/2...-xu-zhimo.html
Seems to be another translation of the poem in post #3604. I prefer the first version.
"At six o'clock we were waiting for coffee,". "A Miracle for Breakfast" by Elisabeth Bishop
https://allpoetry.com/A-Miracle-For-Breakfast
Elisabeth creates an almost absurd soliloquy of a poem of a desire for a better life, as the summary so well depicts. Enjoyed :)
"Beautiful sleep!" - Achsa White Sprague; Beautiful Sleep... https://www.litscape.com/author/Achs...ful_Sleep.html
A rare poem to sleep!
"Cat! who hast pass'd thy grand climacteric,"."Sonnet to a Cat" by John Keats
https://web.facebook.com/keatshousem...3/?_rdc=1&_rdr
Grand poem about a cat !... Enjoyed :)
"Dying, still slowly dying," - Phoebe Carey; Death Scene... https://www.litscape.com/author/Phoe...ath-Scene.html
"A Rose Jar
by Ruby Archer
Each heart—a rose-jar—teemeth, richly sweet
With prisoned perfume of a vanished time;
The spice of memory holds those odors fleet;
A birthday lifts the lid, and we may greet
Once more the breath of life's fair blossom,
Gathered in their prime."
Beautiful poem :)
"Flower among flowers," - Jose Rizal; Flower Among Flowers... https://allpoetry.com/Flower-Among-Flowers
Enjoyed that poem.!
Another flowery poem by Jose Rizal:
"Go to my country, go, O foreign flowers,"."To the Flowers of Heidelberg"
https://allpoetry.com/To-the-Flowers-of-Heidelberg
Lovely poem :) A commenter said 5-stanzas were missing but gave no link to substantiate the claim. Found a summary and bio: https://www.joserizal.com/works/to-t...of-heidelberg/... https://www.joserizal.com/life/
"How well I remember the hovel, that stood" - Hannah Flagg Gould; The Fortune-Teller... https://www.litscape.com/author/Hann...ne-Teller.html
Thanks for these context pages and bio.
Interesting poem!
"If you wish to be happy at home,"."Open Hearted"
by Charles Swain
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/heart-poems/
Excellent advice... Enjoyed so much :)
"Jealousy. Whispered weather reports." - Randall Mann; Poem Beginning with a Line by John Ashbery... https://poets.org/poem/poem-beginning-line-john-ashbery
Enjoyed the interplay of words and lines in this poem!
"Keep out of the Past! for its highways"."Keep out of the Past! " by Ella W. Wilcox
https://www.litscape.com/author/Ella..._The_Past.html
Excellent advice, though I rarely heed it... Enjoyed :)
"Lily! lady of the garden!" - Henry Timrod; The Lily Confidante... https://www.litscape.com/author/Henr...onfidante.html
This Lily is between 6 and 10 years old. Did I get that right?
"Mix a little shake of laughter in the doings of the day,"."Credo"
by Roy Neal
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/a-life-well-lived/
6 to 1/2(20)... yes, I believe the flowers are that old... seeking advice about love from the Lily in the garden as I see it.
A good credo to live by :) Enjoyed.
"New England woods are fair of face," - Amos Russel Wells; New England Woods... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/amo...england-woods/
Yes, but seems somewhat ambiguos to my no native understanding.
Endearing trait to give all trees names. Enjoyed the poem!
"Once on the kind of day called “weather breeder,”. "An Encounter" by Robert Frost
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-trees/
Hmmm, I see how it could be.
Wonderful poem by Frost... Orchid Calypso: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calypso_bulbosa
Slightly redacted, lol:
"Pussy-cat" - Spike Milligan; Pussy-cat... https://allpoetry.com/Pussy-cat
Lol!
By a poet with "q " in his name
"THE world's an Inn; and I her guest."."On the World" by Francis Quarles
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/quarles1.html#2
"The smiling conscience in a sleeping breast / Has only peace, has only rest"... :) Enjoyed.
"Rising to wide sky" - Nelson D Reyes; Legacy... https://www.poeticous.com/nelson-d-reyes/legacy
Enjoyed this succinct poem.
"Sho-shó-ne Sa-cá-ga-we-a—captive and wife was she"."Sa-cá-ga-we-a"
by Edna Dean Proctor
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-the-west/
I didn't know "with her baby nestling there— / Girl of but sixteen summers"... Enjoyed :)
"The moon is tired and old;" - Celia Thaxter; The Waning Moon... https://www.litscape.com/author/Celi...ning_Moon.html
Endearing moon poem.
under my tree-roof by Matsuo Basho
"under my tree-roof
slanting lines of april rain
separate to drops"
https://www.poetry.com/poem/27231/under-my-tree-roof
Delightful Haiku by one of the masters :)
"Valencia's streets are thronged. With fearful state " - Hannah Flagg Gould; The Summoned ... https://www.litscape.com/author/Hann...-Summoned.html
Enjoyed this dramatic poem.
"We wear the mask that grins and lies."."The Mask" by Maya Angelou.
https://www.poeticous.com/maya-angel...grins-and-lies
Another intense poem... Enjoyed.
Xitsonga Poem from South Africa {translated}:
"In the name of Amandla" - Vonani Bila; In the Name of Amandla... https://worldliteraturetoday.org/202...ca-vonani-bila
Enjoyed the South African poem and the beautiful illustration.?
"You know Orion always comes up sideways."."The Stars Splitter " by Robert Frost
https://www.poeticous.com/frost/the-...es-up-sideways
An odd way to get a telescope. Dovetails ncely with the video last week? Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:
"By the green waters oil" - Louis Zukofsky; By the green waters... https://allpoetry.com/Louis-Zukofsky
:)
Interesting poem, interesting American poet who didn’t have English as his mother tongue.
"All I know is a door into the dark"."The Forge" by Seamus Heaney
https://www.poeticous.com/seamus-heaney/the-forge
https://genius.com/Seamus-heaney-the-forge-annotated
Enjoyed the poem very much... the summary does it justice. I was alerted to the fact that the narrator had to imagine certain things in the shop: "The anvil must be somewhere in the centre," so he had not the intimacy of entering within, but stayed without. The summary touched on how the poem might describe the poetic process of forging a poem... I agree.
"Books, books, books, books!" - Amos Russel Wells; Books, Books, Books!... https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10139105
A rather sober but original opinion of books. Enjoyed!
"Closed eyes can't see the white roses,"Give Them the Flowers Now"
by Leigh M. Hodges
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/a-life-well-lived/
Enjoyed so much... "Words cannot tell what a measure
Of blessing such gifts will allow" :)
"Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow;" - Thomas Campion; Follow Thy Fair Sun... https://share.google/6tDllygyez4mAaRgW
Oh do my! The tragedy and, at bottom, the insignificance of unrequited love.
"Go to your prisons -- though the air of spring"."To Leigh Hunt And His Brother"
by Thomas Moore
https://www.litscape.com/author/Thom...s_Brother.html
Encouragement to the imprisoned... Enjoyed :)
"'Help, help, ' said a man. 'I'm drowning.'" - Spike Milligan; Have A Nice day... https://allpoetry.com/Have-A-Nice-day
Ironic poem.
"I saw a little elephant standing in my garden,"."Jumbo Jet"
by Spike Milligan
https://allpoetry.com/Jumbo-Jet