My goodness! Such vanity I've never had related... Enjoyed
"Life (priest and poet say) is but a dream;" - Walter Savage Landor; The Dragon-Fly... https://allpoetry.com/The-Dragon-Fly
My goodness! Such vanity I've never had related... Enjoyed
"Life (priest and poet say) is but a dream;" - Walter Savage Landor; The Dragon-Fly... https://allpoetry.com/The-Dragon-Fly
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Love this poem! But who says that insect souls are less eternal than ours?
"Mary thy violets are bright"."The Violets"
by Hannah Flagg Gould
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/violet-poems/ #4
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
I don't agree with the poet either. IMHO: Eternal, yes, but human souls are the literal spirit children of our Heavenly Father in my faith and so may become exalted beings.
• https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/...y-die?lang=eng
• https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/...ation?lang=eng
"A simple leaf may brush a tear, / Or chase a cloud of care away— / May touch, with pleasant sounds, the ear, / Illumine night, and brighten day."Enjoyed.
"Native moments! when you come upon me - Ah you are here now!" - Walt Whitman; Native Moment... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...nts-3216324066
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Thanks for the links. I think this is the first time I read that a Christian Faith admits the idea of animals in heaven.
A strong and brave declaration of love by Walt Whitman! Enjoyed!
"Only in sleep I see their faces,"."Only in sleep" by Sara Teasdale
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-memories/
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
"I met their eyes and found them mild— / Do they, too, dream of me, I wonder, / And for them am I too a child?" Enjoyed
"Pearls of bated oxygen" - Kaysina Melody; I Refuse to Drown... https://new.allpoetry.com/poem/16240...efuse_to_drown
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
An original take!
A poem with its title starting with "q":
"Ho all you eager travelers!"."Quest"
by Winifred Webb
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/winifred-webb/quest/
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
"If you have found it, won't you tell / Its happy name to me?" Ah, wouldn't it be nice to edit out our bad memories... of course only if beneficial in the long run as we learn and grow from all experiences. Enjoyed
#20 "Roll on, roll on, you restless waves," - Aunt Effie; The Waves on the Sea-Shore... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/beach-poems/
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Nice, friendly poem about setting limits. Wondering whose aunt Effie is.
"Squat-nosed and broad, of big and pompous port;"."The Swashbuckler
by Madison Cawein
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/mad...-swashbuckler/
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Not exactly as I would imagine a swashbuckler, but enjoyed
"the night is calm and the breezes are free" - Robert Poleski; Jasmine Love... https://new.allpoetry.com/contest/28...-with-letter-J
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
A very scented poem. Enjoyed!
A poem with a title starting with "u":
"The sleep of this night deepens"."Under Stars"
by Tess Gallagher
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...61/under-stars
https://poemanalysis.com/tess-gallagher/under-stars/
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Long distance relationship via snailmail. Enjoyed
"vain mankind!" - Kobayashi Issa; Vain Mankind!...
vain mankind!
even in blossoming Kyoto
autumn wind
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Lol! Like the word snailmail.
Enjoyed the subtlety of the haiku.
"WHO will go drive with Fergus now,"."Who goes with Fergus?" by William Butler Yates
https://new.allpoetry.com/Who-Goes-With-Fergus-
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Felt ambiguous about Fergus so did some digging:https://www.poetryverse.com/william-.../poem-analysis... I would follow FergusPublished in the Rose: Written early in Yeats's career and published in The Rose (1892), this short lyric draws on Irish myth to offer a ritualized invitation. It summons the youth to join Fergus — a mythic ruler who governs woods, sea and stars — promising escape from anxious love and private brooding. The poem reflects Yeats's early romantic interest in national mythology and symbolic, consolatory imagery rather than autobiographical detail.
Poem with an 'x' in the title:
"As you are both Malcolm's" - Joshua Bennett; X... https://poetrysociety.org/poems-essa...a-bennett-on-x
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
No direct access to complete X poem. Your link doesn't work for me, other links I found on Google neither. Maybe blocked because it's a different country.
"Ye lonely peaks, with brows of ice!". "Swiss Mountains by Night"
by F.B. Money-Coutts
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-mountains/ #5
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"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
So sorry... it is a wonderful poem in my estimation and the page gave an author-analysis of the poem... that being said there are options to share the page, so I will hazard to quote the poem
The analysis was featured in The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016). All rights reserved. Reprinted courtesy of the author, so I wont quote from it.X
As you are both Malcolm's
shadow & the black unknown
he died defending, I praise
your untold potential, the possible
worlds you hold within your body's
bladed frame. I love how you stand
in exultation, arms raised
to welcome the rain, the bolt,
whatever drops from the sky's slick shelf
without warning, as all plagues
do. Miracles too. & bombs that fall
from planes which hold men with eyes
aimed through long glass tubes. Tubes
that make a civilian's life look small.
Small enough to smoke. X marks the cross
-hairs, & the home an explosion turns to blur.
X marks the box on the form that bought
the bombs, paid the trigger man, sent
the senator's son off to school
without a drop of blood to temper
his smile, stain leather
boots, mar the occasion.
X: every algorithm's heart
-beat, how any & all adjacent
quantities bloom. A kiss.
How a signature knows
where to begin its looping
dance. Two hands balled
into fists, crossed
at the wrist, repping
the borough that gave
us b-boys, the Yankees,
my mother's left
hook, swift enough
to knock any living
thing off its feet
like a cartoon villain
bested by banana peel
or spilled oil, his eyes
now two black x's,
denoting absence.
The wrong answer
on a test. How
my great-great
grandfather,
who could not read,
rendered his name,
as if an homage
to his own opacity,
as if to say, I contain
the unthinkable, or, I abstain.
Loved these lines: "Repentant of renouncèd love, / Lies at your feet the lake". Enjoyed
Poet with a 'z' in their name:
"The rudder breaks, the sails are ripped, the roar" - Adam Mickiewicz; The Storm... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8532067-T...dam-Mickiewicz
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
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