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Enjoyed :) I found this line a bit disturbing however: "Put your eyes into mine with silence,"... but I think I know what she meant.
"Zoom, Zoom, Zoom went the kitten" - DarkenedAuras; Zoom, Zoom, Zoom Went The Kitten... https://allpoetry.com/poem/16505939-...-DarkenedAuras
Lol! Disturbing indeed! Poet probably isn’t a native speaker.
Poor kitten! Learned a new verb: to conk out.
"As this new morning I awake,"."A Morning Prayer" by Robert Skillings
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/rob...rning-prayer/j
Verb: Lol... good catch !
A worthy prayer poem :) Enjoyed.
"Behind each star a small dream hides" - Annette Wynne; Behind Each Star... https://gaiaalessi.com/new-project-2
Charming poem for small and big children. Enjoyed very much.
"Calm and serene the imperial lion lay,"On a Lion Enraged at Seeing a Lad in the Highland Dress"
by W. Hamilton
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/lion-poems/ Poem 5
Must have been the kilt, lol. Enjoyed :)
"Darkness is banished and morning is here;" - Anonymous; Morning... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/nature-poems/ #2
Enjoyed this nature poem!
"Even as a child he loved to thrid the bowers,"The Dreamer"
by Madison Cawein
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/nature-poems/
Enjoyed this sonnet: "He looks on Nature, hearing at her heart, / The Beautiful beat out the time and place,"
"From the woodlands of Madagascar" - Nigel Morgan; Les Inséperables... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/790442/les-inseperables
Àaaiii! Loved this birds and poem!
"Gone were but the Winter,"Spring Quiet"
by Christina Rossetti
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-silence/ #10
Love the minimalism in Rosetti's poem: "Here dwell in safety, / Here dwell alone, / With a clear stream / And a mossy stone." Enjoyed :)
"Hark, I hear the bells of Westgate," - Sir John Betjeman; Westgate-On-Sea... https://allpoetry.com/Westgate-On-Sea
Descriptive ironic poem depicting scenes of the end of the nineteenth century.Enjoyed!
"In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,"The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
https://allpoetry.com/Ralph-Waldo-Emerson
Odd, getting a 404 error when I click the poem's link (various permutations wouldn't work)... Found it here: https://emersoncentral.com/texts/poems/the-rhodora/ with a nice summary
Enjoyed :) Alexa says the Rhodora is a special type of Rhododendron with pinkish/purplish flower that flower before the leaves (fully?) form in N.E. America.
"Just where that star above" - Bliss Carman; Distances... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-stars/
Yes, the specific link doesn't work. But when on clicks on Emerson's poems it's the second. But your page, including a picture of the flower, summary and comments is much better!
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Enjoyed that dispassionate star poem!
Poem with the title starting with "K":
"In a field"."Keeping Things Whole" by Mark Strand
https://www.poemine.com/Mark-Strand/...ngs-Whole.html
"Wherever I am / I am what is missing." Enjoyed :)
"Long warned of many terrors more severe" - Edwin Arlington Robinson; Siege Perilous... https://allpoetry.com/Siege-Perilous
Sounds very up to date.Interesting poet¡
"Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn, "Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson
https://allpoetry.com/Miniver-Cheevy
Quite a contrarian master Cheevy was... Enjoyed :)
"No, you're wrong." - Harold Pinter; Restaurant... https://www.poemine.com/Harold-Pinter/Restaurant.html
A very unusual pinterian take Enjoyed!
"O sweet To-morrow"."Song of Hope" by Thomas Hardy.
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-hope/ #35
A cacianesque poem by Hardy... Enjoyed :)
"Pluck this little flower and take it, delay not! I fear lest it" - Tagore Rabindranath; Flower... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8516521-F...dranath-Tagore
Lol, but I think I see what you mean. I'll look for the poem in the morning, am to tired now. Tried to inscrìbe me for three jobs nothing worked.
Hang in there... I may be absent a bit Wednesday myself.
Ok. Hope all is well.
Poet with a "Q" in her name.
"Before daybreak the breezes"."The Wild Swans"
by Li Qingzhao
translated from the French
https://poets.org/poem/wild-swans-0
Waiting for an oil change just now in the big city, population ~ 11,000.
" I fling these bitter drops /
to the wild swans on the river, /
that they may be my messengers."
Enjoyed :)
"Remember when Khrushchev said" - David Lehman; November 6... https://www.poemine.com/David-Lehman/November-6.html
Found some context for the sentence "We will bury you": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_will_bury_you . Very up to date issues.
"Spirit that breathest through my lattice, thou"."To the Evening Wind"
by William Cullen Bryant
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/night-poems/
Thank you for the informed article on Khrushchev's famous quote :)
Wonderful language used in Bryant's poem: "a thousand bosoms round / Inhale thee in the fulness of delight"... Enjoyed :)
"The paper tigers roar at noon; - Alec Derwent Hope; Tiger... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8509637-Tiger-by-A-D-Hope
Very interesting poem !
"Upon his Saddle sprung a Bird" Ditto by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poemine.com/Emily-Dickin...ng-a-Bird.html
https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/white...oems-on-birds/
Enjoyed Ditto by dear Emily and the explanation of why so many birds in her poetry :)
"Valiant are you who fought and fell gloriously;" - Constantine Cavafy; Those Who Fought For The Achaean League... https://allpoetry.com/Those-Who-Foug...Achaean-League
I like this mood of ancient Greek poetry!
"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high"."Where the mind is without fear" by Rabindranath Tagore
https://allpoetry.com/Where-The-Mind-Is-Without-Fear
Thoughtful idealistic poem by R.T. Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:
"Reverse the river and upend the sea more powerfully than a flood dragon," - Xing Yi Quan; Tuo Xing: Water Lizard (Alligator) 鼍形... https://www.internalartsinternationa...-xing-yi-quan/
Enjoyed so much these animal poems. It shows quite a different perception of the animals.
"You love the sun and the languid breeze". "Hope and Despair" by Arthur Weir
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-hope/ #15
One can chose hope or despair... Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:
"Year by year, in the snow," - Li Qingzhao; TZ'U NO. 13... https://listentogenius.com/author.php/323
A delicate poem about ageing! Enjoyed so much!
"A blighted bud may hold"."A blighted bud may hold" by Patience Worth
https://allpoetry.com/A-Blighted-Bud-May-Hold
"... A sweeter message. than the loveliest flower. / For God hath kissed her wounded heart / And left a promise there." Something to remember. Enjoyed :)
"Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art—" - John Keats; Bright Star... https://thepoetryhour.com/poems/bright-star/
Enjoyed this romantic poem.!
"Candy". "Reflections on Ice-Breaking" by Ogden Nash
https://www.poeticous.com/ogden-nash...n-ice-breaking
Lol, the lothario speaks. Enjoyed :)
"Down the stream the swans all glide;" - Spike Milligan; Down the stream the swans all glide... https://allpoetry.com/Down-The-Strea...wans-All-Glide
Poor deidealized swans!
"Eleven o’clock, and the curtain falls."."End of the Comedy" by Louis Untermeyer
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/1...is-untermeyer/
A bleakness generally expressed for midnight. "Even the stars have turned shrapnel,"... Enjoyed :)
"For every bird there is this last migration;" - Alec Derwent Hope; Death of the Bird... https://www.poemine.com/Alec-Derwent...-the-Bird.html
A sad but very symbolic poem .Enjoyed!
"God's garden stretches far and wide"."God's Garden
by Annette Wynne
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-god/
"He scatters gold abroad at day / In shining beams; then far and near / Dandelions gold appear / Along the way." I'm awaiting our first dandelions with grand expectations... Enjoyed Wynne's poem :)
"Have the faries all departed" - William Percy French; The Valley Of Dunloe... https://www.poemine.com/William-Perc...Of-Dunloe.html
:)
Charming poem but I expected it to tell about the meeting with the fairy.
"I love the world and all therein:"."Declaration" by Fenton Johnson
https://allpoetry.com/Declaration
I know.
Altruistic... Enjoyed :)
"Jus' a little pair o' gloves," - Margaret Elizabeth Sangster; To A Pair Of Gloves... https://allpoetry.com/To-A-Pair-Of-Gloves
Beautiful poem!
Poem with a title starting with "k"
"Before you know what kindness". "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye
https://poets.org/poem/kindness