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Thank you for the wiki... I've loved the Greek mythos since a teen and Goethe has a deft hand in composition :)
Yahya Hassan: a tragic poet: https://lithub.com/celebrating-yahya-hassan-poet-rebel/
Atwood: a dense poem rich in imagery: "a splash of paint on brick surprising as a bruise,"... https://poetryprof.com/the-city-planners/
"Don’t let anyone hurt you," - Uriah Hamilton; Zeus Or Achilles... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=532636
Yahya Hassan- thanks for this emphatic article. So sad that he died so young!
Thanks for the equally inspired article on the "City Planers"!
"Zeus Or Achilles...". Sound advices.
"Each day I see the long ships coming into port"
"Each day I see the long ships coming into port
Each day I see the long ships coming into port
and the people crowding to their rail, glad of the shore:
because to have been alone with the sea and not to have known
of anything happening in any crowded way,
and to have heard no other voice than the crooning sea's
has charmed away the old rancours, and the great winds
have search'd and swept their hearts of the old irksome thoughts:
so, to their freshen'd gaze, each land smiles a good home.
Why envy I, seeing them made gay to greet the shore?
Surely I do not foolishly desire to go
hither and thither upon the earth and grow weary
with seeing many lands and peoples and the sea:
but if I might, some day, landing I reck not where
have heart to find a welcome and perchance a rest,
I would spread the sail to any wandering wind of the air
this night, when waves are hard and rain blots out the land."
poem by Christopher John Brennan
Added by Poetry Lover
http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.ph...r+John+Brennan
Wonderful poem :)
"Friends, I will not cease hoping though you weep." - Vachel Lindsay; Follow Friends, I Will Not Cease... https://allpoetry.com/poem/14328820-...Vachel-Lindsay
Vachel's poem somehow reminded me of the pre elections.
"God sent his Singers upon earth"."The Singers" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
https://www.litscape.com/author/Henr...e_Singers.html
lol... pre elections
From S7 -
"These are the three great chords of might, / And he whose ear is tuned aright / Will hear no discord in the three, / But the most perfect harmony."... wonderful poem. Now that I'm singing in the choir again I can greater appreciate this stanza... Enjoyed ! :)
"He wakes up when the sun is highest," - Yashraj Vishwakarma; Quintessential 21st Century Teenager... https://www.poetry.com/poem/102980/q...ntury-teenager
Quintessential 21st Century Teenager... Very true... alas.
"I patted a cat this morning"."The Little Moments" by Patricia Swan
https://allpoetry.com/
The Little Moments
I patted a cat this morning.
I'm allergic to cats
but for a moment nothing crossed my mind
but for the peaceful sensation
of touch and feeling
Take a break. Throw a snowball. Plant a flower
turn a beetle on to its legs again
Tiny things
Important things
There is no shame in letting go
breathe deeply and pick that apple
that is beyond your reach
When I was a child I found colored glass and seashells
where the ocean met the shore
the sun reflected salty greens and blues
on to the pale sand
In the evening a crescent moon will rise
above the hemlocks
in a few days it will show off
its beautiful smile. I think then I will take
my evening walk, for the path forward is built
with hundreds of little pebbles
© Feb 2, Patricia Swan
Absolutely brilliant poem ! Loved our crescent moon last night... and I'm allergic to cats but couldn't be without them... and the sea shore :)... oh, the tiny things !!! :)
"Just look, tis quarter past six, love " - Mary Weston Fordham; The Coming Woman
... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-coming-woman/
Lol! Enjoyed this inversion of roles!
"Keep out of the Past! for its highways""Keep Out Of The Past" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
https://www.litscape.com/author/Ella..._The_Past.html
Great advice :)
"Look here's that uninvited" - Vasko Popa; Far Within Us #2... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22610
Wondeful poem, interesting form (a head, maybe?)
"Mommy always wanted". "Her Dreams" by Nikki Giovanni
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/her-dreams/
Enjoyed... Mom trying to groom her daughters for fame unsuccessfully ?
"Now you hear what the house has to say." - Dana Gioia; Insomnia... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/insomnia-2/
Very original take, letting the repair needed objects of the house speak.
"Often rebuked, yet always back returning".[‘Often rebuked, yet always back returning’] by Emily Brontė
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/o...ack-returning/
Wonderful poem by Emily B.: "What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?" (the Hobbits know) :)
"People who have no children can be hard:" - Gwendolyn Brooks; The Children of the Poor... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/t...n-of-the-poor/
"The Children of the Poor". Wonderful-poem What a rich and subtle use of language:
"My hand is stuffed with mode, design, device.
But I lack access to my proper stone.
And plenitude of plan shall not suffice
Nor grief nor love shall be enough alone
To ratify my little halves who bear
Across an autumn freezing everywhere."
"QUEEN of every moving measure," "Ode to Music" by Joseph Warton
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/warton02.html#3
"And, with some softly whisper'd air, / Smooth the brow of dumb despair." :)
"Rest before you sleep You ll be walking for hours" - Dionisio D. Martinez; Rest before you sleep... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/r...ore-you-sleep/