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by Saffron
Thu Feb 27, 2020 9:48 pm
Forum: A Passion for Poetry
Topic: Poem of the Day
Replies: 58
Views: 41009
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Re: Poem of the Day

I saw that today is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow birthday (born 1807). A few lines from one of his poems were including in the tiny mention of his birthday. Those lines totally capture how I am feeling right now - Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restle...
by Saffron
Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:02 am
Forum: A Passion for Poetry
Topic: Parsing Poetry
Replies: 6
Views: 5708
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Re: Parsing Poetry

A little poem parsing for a wet Sunday. Inversnaid is very fun to read out loud, but very hard to make heads or tails of with the exception of the last stanza, unless you are a Scottish! I figured that the poem is a description of a lovely wild place, but without understanding some of the descriptor...
by Saffron
Sun Oct 20, 2019 9:55 am
Forum: A Passion for Poetry
Topic: Poems for the 21at Century
Replies: 14
Views: 8946
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Re: Poems for the 21at Century

Here is the whole Hopkins poem. I am not sure about the whole thing but love the last stanza. I need to explore some of the words in the first 3 stanzas so I understand what he is describing. I assumed the title was a place name and indeed, it is. I was struck by the pairing of wet and wildness for ...
by Saffron
Sun Oct 20, 2019 9:39 am
Forum: A Passion for Poetry
Topic: A Favorite Poem
Replies: 177
Views: 132364
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Re: A Favorite Poem

This little Dickinson poem is a delight There is no Frigate like a Book (1286) BY EMILY DICKINSON There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears ...
by Saffron
Fri Oct 18, 2019 7:13 am
Forum: A Passion for Poetry
Topic: Poems for the 21at Century
Replies: 14
Views: 8946
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Re: Poems for the 21at Century

Of course, it is Gerard Manley Hopkins! Thanks, DWill and Sarena for playing along with me.
by Saffron
Thu Oct 10, 2019 7:29 pm
Forum: A Passion for Poetry
Topic: Poems for the 21at Century
Replies: 14
Views: 8946
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Re: Poems for the 21at Century

This little snippet is from a poem written in the 19th century, but I feel is even more relevant to the 21st. Anyone want to take a guess at who the poet it? What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and t...
by Saffron
Tue Sep 10, 2019 6:36 am
Forum: A Passion for Poetry
Topic: A Favorite Poem
Replies: 177
Views: 132364
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Re: A Favorite Poem

Not posting a favorite poem, but a favorite Poet. Today is the birthday of Mary Oliver. To me, her poems are like a mash-up of a call to action and a prayer. For a good part of my adult life, I have had the poem, Wild Geese, pinned up in my workspace. In the last stanza of her poem, The Summer Day, ...
by Saffron
Sun Sep 08, 2019 8:01 am
Forum: A Passion for Poetry
Topic: Poems for the 21at Century
Replies: 14
Views: 8946
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Re: Poems for the 21at Century

I was going to post this Lucille Clifton poem on the Poem of the Day thread but then thought this is a poem for this whole year, for this whole first part of the 21st Century and most of all for my dear friend who lost her sister yesterday. blessing the boats BY LUCILLE CLIFTON (at St. Mary's) may t...
by Saffron
Mon Sep 02, 2019 11:40 am
Forum: A Passion for Poetry
Topic: Parsing Poetry
Replies: 6
Views: 5708
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Re: Parsing Poetry

Not too many poems are laugh-out-loud funny and profound at once... This poem also explains why I don't lock my door. Yup, I laughed-out-loud too. And a second laugh, imagining you wiggling in through a window - something I've done many times in my life. Thanks too for the lift with the poem. I was...
by Saffron
Sun Sep 01, 2019 6:09 pm
Forum: A Passion for Poetry
Topic: Parsing Poetry
Replies: 6
Views: 5708
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Parsing Poetry

Just now I came across a poem of Mark Doty that is new to me. I've had the good fortune to have heard him read a few times at the Dodge Poetry Fest. He so thoroughly won me as a fan that now when I see his work I always attend. I am puzzled by the end of this new Doty poem. I am hoping you, you read...

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