Alphabetical Poem First Lines

[tailor STATELY]

Stirred my soul... enjoyed very much Will use it as my next Poem by Another Poet for our 1st & 3rd Thursday group on May 2

From The New Yorker: “He was buried in the churchyard of Twigworth (U.K.), a village near Gloucester, and was described on his gravestone as “Musician and Poet / A lover and maker / Of beauty.” That stone has since been replaced by another, which reads “Composer / Poet of the Severn / and Somme.” When even a man’s gravestones disagree, further digging is required.” ... The only man I've learnt of with the same first name as one of my Uncles.

"Each day in lights and city streets," - Frank Watson; A City Asleep... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/member/city-asleep

[Danik 2016]

Loved "A City Asleep". Same experience in a bigger city here.
"Facing west from California's shores"."Facing West from California Shores" by
Walt Whitman.
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...ia-shores.html

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Enjoyed W.W.'s poem: "Now I face home again, very pleas'd and joyous, / (But where is what I started for so long ago? / And why is it yet unfound?)"... sounds like one of my senior moments

"Going to heaven! I don't know when," - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson; Going To Heaven!... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...o-heaven-13746

[Danik 2016]

re W.W.: Lol! Mine too, very specially the second part of the citation.

"Going to heaven! I don't know when," - light verses on a weighty subject (Ai!). Enjoyed!

"Had I but lived a hundred years ago". "At Lulworth Cove a Century Back" by Thomas Hardy
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...tury-back.html

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed ! Found this: https://victorianweb.org/authors/hardy/pva217.html

"I lost summer somewhere" - Sarah Russell; I lost summer somewhere... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/memb...mmer-somewhere

[Danik 2016]

Interesting information about Lulworth Cove and the Hardy-Keats connection. I have read and enjoyed several of Hardy`s novels, but I came to know his poetry only recently through this thread.

Delicate poem. You know, my German digital friend tells me stories about a pair of storks who are regular residents at a storks nesting place in front of her house. Every year the storks come at early spring, build their nest anew, raise their children and when it starts to get cold they fly to the south. They are so regular, they almost have a Zip code.

"Junkies line up by the infant day;"."Forest Hill Station" by Yasemin Balandi
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...l-station.html

[tailor STATELY]

re: storks

Poem setting: About 10 km from where my Mother lived as a child...

Disturbing modern homage to Forest Hill Station... enjoyed.

"Know this, ye restless denizens of earth," - Ella Wheeler Wilcox; Three Things... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...e-things-32998

[Danik 2016]

Very much to the point. Enjoyed "Three Things"!

"Land lies in water; it is shadowed green."."The Map" by Elizabeth Bishop
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...4/the-map.html

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed E.B.'s poem very much... "These peninsulas take the water between thumb and finger /
like women feeling for the smoothness of yard-goods." Maps can be quite expressive

"my dead grandmother’s young" - Ina Cariño; Native Title... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/native-title/

[Danik 2016]

A sad,but assertive poem!


"NEAR Moskva’s stream, through heath and forest gliding,"."A County Church" by James Gates Percival
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...ty-church.html

[tailor STATELY]

Guesstimate the church is 80 km from Moscow (more via the river). Post USA Revolutionary war/pre-Civil war poet; definitely a sentimentalist poem as per his bio at Wikipedia... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gates_Percival Enjoyed

"One tone is mute within the starry singing," - Clark Ashton Smith; Lament Of The Stars... http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings...t-of-the-stars

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the Wikipedia article,Didn't know there was a city called Berlin in Connecticut.

I like the cosmic ring in "Lament Of The Stars...".A poem to be read more than once, I think..

"Past cottage piers, past the tiny store and"."One Perfect Day" by Bonnie Manion
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...rfect-day.html

[tailor STATELY]

One perfect day indeed Enjoyed!

"Quench the thirst" - Hasmukh Mehta; Quench the thirst... https://www.poetry.com/poem/82481/quench-the-thirst

[Danik 2016]

Good rythm! Enjoyed!

"Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud"."Written on Top of Ben Nevis" by John Keats
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...ben-nevis.html

[tailor STATELY]

Wonderful poem of Scotland, et al: "all my eye doth meet / Is mist and crag, not only on this height, / But in the world of thought and mental might!

"Silken is the falling moon" - Captain Cur; Aoide, Silken Is The Fallen Moon... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/aoid...-falling-moon/