Poem of the Day 27: The Buried Chief

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-buried-chief/

This is a weird poem...

I seem to always come by poems about death and this is no different...

A death to a chief and it talks about the weather is like there.

It's not a poem that I did enjoy so yea... again... it's a weird poem.

Poem of the Day 26: A Noiseless Patient Spider

https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/noiseless-patient-spider

First of... I don't like spiders and this poem just doesn't talk about them that much.

In fact, it talks about how they act instead.

Interesting how to use a spider to describe an action.

Poem of the Day 25: The Rules

https://poets.org/poem/rules

This poem says it all... a poem shouldn't always have rules.

It's a good poem to read....

I think I understand it but then again... who understands a lot of poems?

This poem is interesting and it says... a poem is full of stars and it can bring out the best in a person... or rather, in a poem.

Poem of the Day 24: The Donkey

https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/poems/detail/47918

Ok... what an unusual poem. It's interesting to read it.

I think he is talking about a donkey... or rather... a metaphor of being one.

I enjoyed this poem for it can confuse people... but thankful for the title... you can tell what a donkey is like now.

Poem of the Day 23: This is Just to Say

https://poems.com/poem/this-is-just-to-say/

Short and sweet... literally to the point.

The poet talked about eating something that a person may have been saving... so he just wanted to mention it in a poem.

The style of this poem is quite interesting... and it's this type of style that makes the poem short.

I really enjoy reading this poem a whole lot.

Poem of the Day 22: My Picture Left in Scotland

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44461/my-picture-left-in-scotland

Interesting choice of words.

The poem started out talking about what love is like... then it continues on talking about Scotland and the beauty of the land.

The poem never mentions about Scotland but you kind of figured out when it talked about the rocky face.... which is what some parts of Scotland is like.

I quite enjoy this poem a whole lot.

Poem of the Day 21: A Pastoral Entertainment

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-pastoral-entertainment/

An interesting poem to read...

It talks about a lot of things in this poem...

I won't talk about what it says because I am just enjoying the poem as it is...

Read it yourself above at the link.

Poem of the Day 20: A Summer Place

A Summer Place (1977)

Anne Stevenson

 

You know that house she called home,
so sleek, so clapboard-white,
that used to be some country jobber’s blight
or scab on our hill’s arm.
You can see the two cellars of the barn –
stones still squatting where the fellow stacked them.
He worked the place as a farm,
though how, with stones for soil, she never knew.
Partly she hoped he’d been a poet, too.
Why else hang Haystack mountain and its view
from northwest windows?
It was the view she bought it for. He’d gone.
The house sagged on its frame. The barns were down.
The use she saw for it was not to be
of use. A summer place. A lovely
setting where fine minds could graze
at leisure on long summer days
and gather books from bushes, phrase by phrase.
Work would be thought. A tractor bought for play
would scare unnecessary ugly scrub away.
A white gem set on a green silk glove
she bought and owned there.
And summers wore it, just as she would wear
each summer like a dress of sacred air,
until the house was half compounded of
foundations, beams and paint – half of her love.
She lived profoundly, felt, wrote from her heart,
knew each confessional songbird by its voice,
cloistered her garden with bee balm and fanning iris,
sat, stained by sunsets, in a vault of noise,
listening through cricket prayer for whitethroat,
hermit thrush. And couldn’t keep it out:
the shade of something wrong, a fear, a doubt.
As though she heard the house stir in its plaster,
stones depart unsteadily from walls,
the woods, unwatched, stretch out their roots like claws
and tear through careful fences, fiercer than saws.
Something alive lived under her mind-cropped pasture,
hated the house. Or worse, loved. Hungering after
its perfectly closed compactness.
She dreamed or daydreamed what it might have come to,
the house itself wanting the view
to take it, and the view’s love gathering into
brambles, tendrils, trunks of maples, needing
her every window, entering, seeding.
Fear of attack kept her from sleeping,
kept her awake in her white room, pacing, weeping.
But you see the place still stands there, pretty as new.
Whatever she thought the mountain and trees would do,
they did, and took her with them, and withdrew.

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 The poem talked about a home...

In the end, it turned out, she was dreaming of a home...

It seemed the home may be located in a forest and close to a mountain...

All in all, this is a good poem to read.

Poem of the Day 19: I Lost My Talk

https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/i-lost-my-talk

This poem seems interesting...

I think it states that losing your talk means you don't have a chance to speak aloud...

Then she wanted to teach others that it's best to speak aloud...

It's a good poem.

Poem of the Day 18: Closet space

https://poets.org/poem/closet-space

This poem is written in an unusual way and it seems to make sense in certain parts...

A closet seems to be a place where you can keep secrets and much more.

That's how this poem is presented to me...

It's interesting to see how this poem is like and I did enjoyed it a whole lot.

Poem of the Day 17: Home and the Homeless

https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/poems/detail/53418

This poem is a simile... It compares itself to a human... showing that age can get to us all.

Interesting how I can see this in a poem like this.

A home is somewhere we live and loved... but it can fade just like a human.

Being homeless is the same... makes it seem like life is never gonna be the same.

I really did enjoy a poem like this.

Poem of the Day 16: [Night, a street, a lamp, a chemist’s shop,]

https://poems.com/poem/night-a-street-a-lamp-a-chemists-shop/

 This poem is translated from Russian language... and it's short but interesting.

It talks about a night... how it is lit up by a dim light. And how everything will just be the same no matter how it seems.

We just live in the same old life... always afraid to change... no matter how much it is needed.

For this poem, I disagree... I think we can break things that seem to never change. We can change... we must change... Otherwise, we will get burned out with things.

Poem of the Day 15: Khaleesi Says

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/56679/khaleesi-says

This poem is literally talking about a character in a tv series... which is interesting...

I never seen a poem like this before.

But I really do enjoy reading it.

It's something different and something that makes sense with the title.

Poem of the Day 14: Despondency

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/despondency/

Interesting poem... it shows empowerment of overcoming the pain and despair of things... By finding faith to God.

I find this poem confusing for the title but realizing that this word means low in spirit... so it made sense why this poem is titled this way.

It talked about being low in spirit... tired and angry at times... trying to find hope in faith is the only way to get out of this low spirit feeling.

I like this poem... because it's like a short journey into finding something bad to finding something good.

Poem of the Day 13: XCVIII (98)

From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,
That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt with him.

Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue,
Could make me any summer’s story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:

Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;
They were but sweet, but figures of delight,
Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.

Yet seemed it winter still, and you away,
As with your shadow I with these did play.

 http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/random-poem/

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 This poem seems to be written about a season and waiting for winter to be over. Shakespeare's sonnets are each unique and most are numbered like this one.

I really enjoy this one a whole lot.

I shared the site where the poem come from so you know that I didn't copy and paste for no reason at all.

Enjoy all the poems on that site.

Poem of the Day 12: Flaxman

https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/flaxman

Don't know what Flaxman is but this is an interesting poem talking about greek and much more.

It's just a random poem but it does talk about a few things.

Who knows what else it means...

I like how it works... so it's interesting to read.

Poem of the Day 11: At a Days Inn in Barstow, California

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/days-inn-barstow-california

Sometimes I wonder what is the meaning of these titles but realize... it may be a title that some poets might come up when they written a poem.

This one seems to talk about what her mother had given her and they were just about to open and see what is held inside of it.

I noticed that this might be a memory because of how it is written... then she continues to talk about being inside the hotel room... getting ready to sleep.

Interesting poem, indeed.

Poem of the Day 10: When You Are Old

https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/poems/detail/43283

This poem talks about growing old and how everything changes over time. How love seems to fade as one would eventually pass away... being one of the stars.

This is how I see the poem. It's actually beautiful and enjoyed it a whole lot.

I love how it is structured... with the rhymes in different areas...

So this poem does make you think a whole lot and that's a good thing... there's nothing wrong about growing old.

Poem of the Day 9: The Snow Man

https://poems.com/poem/the-snow-man/

Um... where in the poem does it talk about a snow man?

Unless, it's a metaphoric type of poem where it does talk about a snow man but in different words?

Whatever is going on, I still don't know where the snow man is.

What I do read is how winter is... how cold, how the snow is... and how it seems like nothing.

Oh, I get it... the snow man is at the end of the poem. He's the one that is nothing and silent. Genius.

I did enjoy this poem a whole lot.

Poem of the Day 8: Flight

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/146242/flight-5aa944d5741a8

This is a poem about flying a plane for the first time ever... and having to explain it to their family about it.

It's an interesting poem since it talks about traveling to her mother's home.

I really enjoy reading it but how it's written was hard to figure out where it ends and where it starts... meaning, was there suppose to be a pause here or another line was suppose to begin again.

But whatever... it's a good poem to read nonetheless.

Poem of the Day 7: Fairy Land I

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fairy-land-i/

Be sure to understand, there will be a video that will start the poem automatically... but it is a bit annoying.

I really do like poems about fairies and such. This poem is no different. I do know it's a Shakespeare poem so some words might be odd.

It talks about how to get to Fairy Land and how fairies are...

Also it talks about the queen and what fairies like.

So, yes, this is an interesting poem to read.

Poem of the Day 6: She who has not died

She who has not died (1914)

Edward Słoński

 

 1
My brother, we are divided
by ill-fate and a guard:
behind two hostile ramparts
our death is our reward.
In groaning trenches we listen
to the thunder of guns:
I, your enemy, you, my enemy,
we face each other once.
The forest weeps, the earth weeps,
the whole world trembles on high.
Behind two hostile ramparts
we stand, you and I.

2
As soon as the guns begin
to roar in the dawn,
through the whistling bullets of death
your sign has always shone.
You throw at our low ramparts
your whole artillery
and you call and you speak to me:
“Brother, it is I.”
The forest weeps, the earth weeps,
the whole world trembles on high,
and all the time you say to me
“Brother, it is I.”

3
Don’t think of me, my brother,
as I march to my death:
in the fire of my bullets stand bravely
and take a deep breath.
And when you see me from afar
fire at me instead:
into a Polish heart
aim Russian lead.
For I dream of her by day
and see her in my dreams:
She who has not died
will rise where our blood screams.

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I couldn't find a website with this poem so I had to copy and paste it here.

This poem has a whole lot to deal with death and that in part makes the poem really intense.

Did I enjoy the poem? Yes, I think I did? I really don't know because it was really confusing at parts.

I just know that it's about death... and guns? Who knew this poem could be highly control by such a death when she might not be dead... but she may be dead? Yea... you just gotta read the poem yourself to figure it out.

Poem of the Day 5: Poem Begun on the Day of My Father’s Funeral...

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/poem-begun-day-my-fathers-funeral-and-completed-first-day-new-year

This is a long title for a poem... and quite unusual. Not a bad thing.

I guess this poem is the most confusing one but the way the title sounds... it's a poem of how grief goes through the days that past.

What's more unique is how the poem is arranged. I think it's interesting to see this... and I decided to hear what it sounds like.

Very different and very... unique.

I really did enjoy this poem and wish to learn how to do this type of style sometimes.

Poem of the Day 4: Thoughtless Cruelty

https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/thoughtless-cruelty

Wow... such a deep poem over killing a fly. But it does make sense once you realize that life is short no matter how you look like.

This whole poem is a metaphor for what life is all about.

Even if it's just a fly... it shouldn't been killed like that... because there's a meaning for it's short-lived life... that it already has.

I like poems that doesn't make sense unless you know how poems do work.

This poem shows life and death...

And it shows how we should about life more.

I enjoy it a whole lot. Worth a read.

Poem of the Day 3: A Red, Red Rose

https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/poems/detail/43812

This is a love poem... Literally.

Though it's by a famous poet... it's something that should be noticed by how he written the poem.

It's really unique and something that you can do yourself if you wish to follow his style.

The poem starts out with the person confessing his love and how far it can go. Then he goes on about leaving but will be back again to confess his love once again.

It's actually a sweet poem and it's worth to read.

Poem of the Day 2: [You who never arrived]

https://poems.com/poem/you-who-never-arrived/

This poem seems to be talking about a chance that never came. A moment that happened but never happened.

I think it's an interesting poem to read.

Do I enjoy it... well... it's a poem form that I never read before so it's interesting to say at the least. I did enjoy it... so there's my answer.

The poem is good and tells a good story even though at first, you have to wonder... who is the "you" in the poem? I hoped it was either the person itself or somebody they happened to come across but it never happened to be the right person?

I hope that you enjoy reading this poem just as I did.

Poem of the Day 1: Ramadan

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56913/ramadan-56d239decda60

This poetry celebrates a fasting in Muslim community. A respected holiday where everything is respected.

I thought it was a good poem that describes everything that Ramadan is all about.

I really enjoy learning about traditions of cultures and religions and this was one of those poems that shows how sacred this holiday is.

Reading Poetry Challenge

At first, I wasn't going to do the challenge, but I realized...

Reading poetry should be enjoyed.

I love writing them so I should start getting inspired by them more.

I have several websites and will choose them at random...

I will try to share either the website of the poem or the poem itself, with the author's name.

I hope you enjoy reading poetry with me... this should bring inspiration to me... and hopefully, to you.

See you tomorrow and until Day 30!

Review of Random Book, First Chapter Challenge

This challenge was literally a challenge.

I will only do this if the books were different.

It did made me realized that I need to read more... so I should start doing that pretty soon.

I don't know if this can be repeated but we shall see.

I love books so this challenge was an okay type of challenge. Made me realized that there are books out there that may seem hard to read.

Random Book 30: Insurgent

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11735983-insurgent

I already read the first book and hope to enjoy this sequel.

Again, it starts off from where the first book left off...

I think there was a lot of sad and action scenes with the first book... so hope this one has just as much.

Would I be reading more? Yes, I will be.

Random Book 29: Never Fade

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16150830-never-fade

Another book series that I need to reread... especially the first book.

This is a sequel and it continues on with what happens in The Darkest Minds.

I will be reading more of the books... so don't worry about that.

Random Book 28: Teardrop

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16070143-teardrop
This book starts with a boy finding a girl...

Then it begins with the girl who was having problems with her life.

It's very interesting so far... but no secret that it might be heading to much weirder things.

Would I read more? Yes, I may be reading more of this.