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Thank you for your consideration :) (going slowly).
"Purdah" Again, very strong, original and surprising images!
"Keen fitful gusts are whispering here and there". "Keen Fitful Gusts Are Whispering Here And There" by John Keats
https://www.litscape.com/author/John...And_There.html
Sounds like Keats is hunkering down with a book or two :)
"Laura! a sunrise seems to break" - Friedrich Schiller; Melancholy To Laura... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...to-laura-30706
Schiller at his most dramatic. Not even Petrarca can surpass him!
"My love loves hooded mergansers, absurd"."The Last Lophodytes" by Eileen G'sell
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ast-lophodytes
Schiller and Petrarca... a tale of two Lauras :)
A very intimate poem by Eileen.
"None of this had to happen." - Jane Hirshfield; Day Beginning with Seeing the International Space Station and a Full Moon Over the Gulf of Mexico and All Its Invisible Fishes... https://poets.org/poem/day-beginning...co-and-all-its
Enjoyed the unexpected images by Jane Hirschfield
"Origami-folded toads".Arroyo Seco by Harryette Mullen
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-64cc3cf5c102f
Enjoyed... wonderful first line :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arroyo...ngeles_County)
"Philia is the greek word for the love friends have for each other" - Charles Exton; John 15: 13... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/john-15-13/
Thanks on the interesting information on Arroyo Seco
Enjoyed the poem about friendship :)
"Quite a lady of". "Queen Elizabeth II" by Okafor Chukwuebuka Romanus Michael (Chiro)
https://www.poetry.com/poem/143449/queen-elizabeth-ii
Wonderful homage poem... enjoyed :)
"Roughly figured, this man of moderate habits," - Howard Nemerov; Life Cycle of Common Man... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/l...of-common-man/
"Life Cycle of Common Man..."-Very interesting! Enjoyed!
"Said a great..."."Rewards" by Unknown
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com.../rewards-32207
An lol limerick :)
On further review a bit more insight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ward_Beecher
"There was a little turtle - Vachel Lindsay; The Little Turtle... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-little-turtle/
Henry Ward Beecher-Inresting life and abolitionist activism, thanks for the link, tailor. Now I know why the name Beecher sounded familiar to me: Harriet Beecher Stove.
The Little Turtle- Cute poemveve .
A curiosity:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Turtle
"Under the snow in the dark and the cold,"."The Tendril's Faith" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
https://www.litscape.com/author/Ella...ils_Faith.html
Little Turtle: Interesting life, he even met with my distant cousin John Adams :)
Delightful poem of faith :)
"Virgin, sappy, gorgeous, the right-now" - George Starbuck; Sign... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/sign/
A bit bewildered by these forceful theatricals but enjoyed. No analysis but some information about Starbuck: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/george-starbuck
"Was, Is, and Yet-to-Be"."Was, Is, And Yet-To-Be" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
https://www.litscape.com/author/Ella...Yet_To_Be.html
re: Starbuck - interesting collection.
Enjoyed :)
"X was King Xerxes," - Edward Lear; [i]A Nonsense Alphabet... https://kathywaller1.com/2019/04/26/...atozchallenge/
More than the "X poem" I enjoyed the blog itself and tha ability of Ms. Walker about Edward Lear´s used children book. I hope Amazon rewards her.
"Your lungs fill & spread themselves,"."Flying Inside Your Own Body" by Margaret Atwood
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...rgaret-atwood/