Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Thanks for the analysis it enriches the reading of the poem. I have lived in a kitch myself, but here in a region of many contrasts. The apartments are in their majority small, but one has a lot of facilities: food places, laundromats, drugstores at ones door, also theaters and movie theaters, museums, gyms all at the door. And buses and tube to everywhere. Overall there is a certain bohemian atmosphere here. One lives here by choice and that is not the case of Gwendolyn Brooks' poem.

Loved this dark Moonset.

"Mindscape"."Mindscape" by John Prophet
https://www.poeticous.com/john-prophet/mindscape
https://www.poeticous.com/john-prophet/mindscape
https://www.poeticous.com/john-prophet
Note: Seems this poet goes by two names, E J Waling and John Prophet

You are blessed to live in such a rich urban, yet Bohemian, locale :)

Enjoyed :) "Capacity / hones / creation, / reality." His bio adds this glimmer about him: "E.J. Waling is considered by many in the literary community to be the Salvador Dalí of poetry. His rough-hewn unfettered style mimics the artist’s unconventional view of perceived reality." Will continue to study his poetry :)

"Nymph of the desert!" - Helen Maria Williams; Sonnet to Simplicity... https://www.poeticous.com/helen-mari...-to-simplicity

True!

Enjoyed the Sonnet

"On the grass when I arrive"
https://vinhanley.com/2015/03/04/ana...d-of-glanmore/

Excellent melancholic poem... Enjoyed both the poem and its summary :)

""Put up the sword!" The voice of Christ once more" - John Greenleaf Whittier; Disarmament... https://www.poemine.com/John-Greenle...sarmament.html

Sweet message, but I fear things have become very difficult.


A poem by a poet with "q" in his/her name.
"Entering December*,"."JANUARY (AN EVENING OF READING)
by Chen Yanqiang
https://modernchinesepoetry.com/poems.php

Desultory in mood... Enjoyed :)

"Rise up, and do begin the day’s adorning;" - Hilaire Belloc; [month Of] June... https://www.poeticous.com/hilaire-belloc/month-of-june

A love poem that doesn't look like a love poem?

"Some say love’s a little boy,"."O Tell me the Truth about Love" by W H Auden
https://www.poeticous.com/w-h-auden/...uth-about-love
https://www.gradesaver.com/w-h-auden...uth-about-love

"O tell me the truth about love." Enjoyed the poem, although there's no resolution, and summary :)

"The city mouse lives in a house; —" - Christina Georgina Rossetti; The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse... https://www.poeticous.com/christina-...e-garden-mouse

The second link contains a summary. Lol! Open ends are usual in contemporary poetry, I guess.
Aiiii!

"Under the overhanging"."The Owls" by Charles Baudelaire
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...aire/owls-8876
https://www.poetryverse.com/charles-...ire-poems/owls

Enjoyed the English translations in both links and the summary in the second :)

"Virtual" - E.J. Waling; Virtual Bliss... https://www.poeticous.com/john-prophet/virtual-bliss

I like this display of the words of the poem.Interesting poem.


"What syllable are you seeking"."To the Roaring Wind" by Wallace Stevens
https://allpoetry.com/To-The-Roaring-Wind

Love to hear the wind shriek through the cracks in my home... Enjoyed :)

Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:

"In bitter longing I sought poems to recite beneath the lamp," - Yu Xuanji; To Wen Feiqing On a Winter's Night... https://poetrysociety.org/poems-essa...-winters-night

Found your poem here:https://leonard-ng.com/complete-poems-of-yu-xuanji/ The other site didn't work for me. Rather sad poem.

"You can’t say it that way any more."." And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name
by John Ashbery
https://poemanalysis.com/john-ashber...s-is-her-name/

Most odd.

"We were a seesaw. Something / Ought to be written about how this affects / You when you write poetry" :) Enjoyed :)

Poet with a 'z' in their name:

"She jumps off the swing, lazily stretching her slender hands.” - Li Qingzhao; Rouge Lips · She Jumps Off the Swing... https://mandarinmatrix.org/famous-chinese-poems/

Not well today!

Charming poem!

"A happy old hen met a discontented"."The Hearty Hen"
by Amos Russel Wells
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/positive-poems/

Hope and pray you get better soon...

Enjoyed the contrast between the duck's and hen's attitude :)

"Babels of blocks to the high heavens towering" - H. P. Lovecraft; The Cats... https://www.poeticous.com/h-p-lovecraft/the-cats

Thanks!Sorry, was starting alphabetical yesterday when I went to hospital. When I came back I was so tired that I just slept for hours.

Well, but I think one shouldn't facilitate things for those that want to cook you.

Lovelace on a very bad day. But enjoyed the powerful images.

"Consider the sea’s listless chime:"."The Sea-Limits" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
https://allpoetry.com/The-Sea-Limits



Lovecraft on

Hospital?... pray all is well... missed you.

"Lisen alone beside the sea, / Listen alone among the woods; / Those voices of twin solitude"

“Did you know that your brain regularly fills in for missing" - Chris Gaither; The first thing I learned about ChatGPT was that if it doesn’t know, it makes it up... https://www.poeticous.com/chris-gait...it-makes-it-up

:)
I got me a virose, but feel better now.
Lol!Is this a class on ChatGPT produced by ChatGPT?

"Either peace or happiness,"."Let it Unfold You" by Charles Bukowski
https://www.poeticous.com/charles-bu...-it-enfold-you

Glad you're on the mend :)

Lol.

Raw poem of transformation. I had a face to face with a church mouse a month or so ago. Cutest little creature. Eye to eye, he/she in a cupboard shelf while I was doing some cleaning at church. Unfortunately it was in a children's classroom... so I had to report it :(

"From deep inside the labyrinth" - Robert L. Martin; Labyrinth of Rapture... https://www.poeticous.com/robert-lee...nth-of-rapture

Thanks! :)

Ai! I just hope they didn't kill it.

Opposing physical rapture to the rapture of the feelings.

"Glory be to God for dappled things —"."Pied Beauty"
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/nature-poems/

Amen. Enjoyed :)

"Hollow fang?" - J. Martin Dean; ANTIDOTE... https://www.poeticous.com/j-martin-d...te-hollow-fang

Enjoyed Antidote: how to avoid a pattern. The game can go on indefinitely, but then there is a pattern,


"I do not say new friends are not considerate and"."Old Friends" by Edgar Albert Guest
https://www.poeticous.com/edgar-albe...erate-and-true

Enjoyed :) I can only relate on a sub-level though as I do not keep contact with old friends :(

"Jubal sang of the Wrath of God And the curse of thistle and thorn —But" - Rudyard Kipling; Jubal and Tubal Cain... https://www.poeticous.com/kipling/jubal-and-tubal-cain

Yes. On tends to lose contact to old friends.

Abel and Cain. But shouldn't it be "got himself a pointed rod (second line)?

Poem by a poet with k in his name.
"Blossoms at night," ."Blossoms at night," by Kobayashi Issa
https://www.poetrycat.com/kobayashi-...ssoms-at-night

Jubal and Tubal Cain... Tubal-cain - Wikipedia https://share.google/Ng6ihoPlYLxGeHZLB

I think so.

Beaming flowers an beaming faces... Enjoyed. :)

"London, my beautiful," - F. S. Flint; Poems in Unrhymed Cadence... https://www.poeticous.com/f-s-flint/...rhymed-cadence

A very interesting story, tailor, I thought the poem was a mild Indian version of the Cain and Abel story. As it happens they are descendants and incorporate several mythical versions of conflicts between brothers.

Beautiful city poem with very delicate sensorial imagery!

"moonlight glints on snow"."Winter Haiku" by Barb Clarke
https://www.poeticous.com/barb-clark...glints-on-snow

Enjoyed Barb's Haikus; very recently penned... following her now :)

"Now that love has died" - Laura Brown; Lonely Haiku... https://www.poeticous.com/laura-brown/lonely-haiku

Sad haiku!

"Of Helen’s brothers, one was born to die"."Sonnet XLVIII" by George Santayana
https://www.poeticous.com/george-san.../sonnet-xlviii

Caster & Pollux :) Enjoyed. Need to read more of George's poetry :)

"Parents are like" - Chris Gaither; First, Do No Harm... https://www.poeticous.com/chris-gait...rst-do-no-harm

A complicated theme, enjoyed though!

Poem by a poet with two qs in his name.
"Why won't you stay on Southern River any more?"."To the North-flying Wild Geese"
- Poetry of Qian Qi
https://www.cn-poetry.com/qianqi-poetry/#gsc.tab=0

Sad poem... enjoyed the minimalism :)

"Rhythm in sync with" - Robert L. Martin; Rhythm of the Boreas... https://www.poeticous.com/robert-lee...-of-the-boreas

A freezing poem in gorgeous images! Enjoyed!

"Sea of dreams of liquid glass,"."Sea of dreams" also by Robert Lee Martin.
https://www.poeticous.com/robert-lee...f-liquid-glass

"a journey into the imaginary," "aquatic angels with celestial fins / who anoint and soothe the waters with their / imperial scepters and infuse / their holy waters into earthen waters, / carving out a pathway to Poets’ Island." "where imagination can change the ships / into (celestial) carriages" "into the imaginary world of the poet.” Wonderful images! Enjoyed so much :)

Hoping not a duplication...

"There are faeries," - Madison Cawein; There Are Faeries... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-faeries-11380

Magic poem! Enjoyed it so much!

"Under the roof where the laughter rings,"."Under the roof where the laughter rings" by Edgar Guest
https://www.poeticous.com/edgar-albe...laughter-rings

Delightful poem of family life with children :)

"Virtual place." - E.J. Waling; Virtual Place... https://www.poeticous.com/john-prophet/virtual-place

Interesting display of words almost a concrete poem.

"We must not hope to be mowers,"."Perseverance" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-kindness/

One must persevere and be active in life... Enjoyed :)

Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:

"In my mind a lilac begins to leaf" - Arthur Sze; X-Ray... https://www.terrain.org/2022/poetry/arthur-sze-2/

Enjoyed the images in " X-ray"!

"You can’t say it that way any more."."And ut pictura poesis is her name" by John Ashbery
https://poemanalysis.com/john-ashber...s-is-her-name/

Oops... I meant with an 'x' in the title...

Unusual ars poetica... Enjoyed :)

Poet with a 'z' in their name:

"Beautiful pair of dove" - Masuma Mirza; Beyond love... https://www.poeticous.com/masuma-mirza/beyond-love