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Agreed. Washington is my 7th cousin 7-times removed :) My daughter must have followed in his footsteps by cutting down my cherry tree... her home now resides on that spot, lol.
Corinth: "A fortress formed to Freedom’s hands." :)
"No matter the pull toward brink. No" - Ross Gay; Sorrow Is Not My Name... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/s...s-not-my-name/
re: Congrats on the kinship with Washington. Sorry for the cherry tree though. Where did your daughter reside before?
Enjoyed " Sorrow Is Not My Name...". The title is very fitting for someone called Gay.
"One night, not long after the disaster,"."After the Disaster" by Abigail Deutsch
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/after-the-disaster/
re: daughter - on the adjoining property...
I tried to understand "After the Disaster" but my attempt was a disaster.
"Powhatan was conqueror," - Vachel Lindsay; Our Mother Pocahontas... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/our-mother-pocahontas/
re daughter: I see. She is living more near from you and your wife now.
re:"After The Disaster". There are some analysis but behind paywall or similar. So my own attempt: the disaster would be the attack on the twin towers in 2000 as the visible part of one of the analysis suggests. The girl is in fact a kind of angel, visible only to the poet. She represents a real or a symbolic loss.
"Quick gleam! that ridest on the gossamer!"."To the Gossamer-Light" by Charles Turner (19th poem)
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/turner01.html#19
Only a couple hundred feet closer :)
Analysis: Ah, figured maybe the towers but was lost otherwise.
Delightful poem, about humming birds I believe :)
"Remember me when I am gone away," - Christina Rossetti; Remember... https://poets.org/poem/remember
"Remember". Sad and beautiful poem!
"School is over. It is too hot"."The Lonely Street" by William Carlos Williams
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/wcw-sg3.html#50 (19th poem)
Enjoyed WCW's poem... found an analysis: https://allpoetry.com/The-Lonely-Street :)
"The roc wings fanwise," - Mao Tse-tung; Two Birds: A Dialogue... https://www.marxists.org/reference/a...ms/poems36.htm
re: Enjoyed the analysis of WCW's poem, very much to the point.
A poem by Mao Tse-tung is a surprise indeed. Enjoyed.
"Under mossy oak and pine"."Creole Serenade" by Madison Julius Cawein
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...serenade-11323
Magical poem: "And, with starry blossoms blent, / Like the moon she leans O heart, / 'Tis another firmament." :)
"Veil them, cover them, wall them round," - Rudyard Kipling; Letting In The Jungle... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...he-jungle-3586
Enjoyed the poem but it sounds as end of the world, our world:"And the blind walls crumble, unknown, o'erthrown,/And none shall inhabit again!"
"Where dips the rocky highland"."The Stolen Child" by W. B. Yeats
https://poets.org/poem/stolen-child
RK was ahead of his time :)
Sweet poem: "To the waters and the wild / With a faery, hand in hand, /For the world's more full of weeping than he can understand." Enjoyed :)
"X is for excess, i was there at the start." - Billy Smith; Generation X... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/generation-x-4/
re RK agreed.
Agree with X poem. Prefer not to ask what "going splat" is.
"What's the bird ratio overhead?"."Some Questions about the Storm" by Hilda Raz
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...bout-the-storm
re RK agreed.
Agree with X poem. Prefer not to ask what "going splat" is.
"What's the bird ratio overhead?"."Some Questions about the Storm" by Hilda Raz
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...bout-the-storm
re: "splat"... lol. Prolly having to live with the consequences of such a lifestyle.
Interesting climate change poem... enjoyed :)
"Wind finds the northwest gap, fall comes." - Robert Penn Warren; Heart of Autumn... https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...561-story.html
Going to a wake today. One of my best friends died yesterday after more of thirty years of Parkinson disease.
AAAIIIIIII Love the way the poet blends man and geese destiny. Going on with "Z".
"The zero mark can be"."Zero" by Marvin Eli Kirsh
https://www.authorsden.com/categorie...pha=z&catid=33