Weekly/Fortnightly Poetry Suggestions

[TriciaG]

And this one:

Bert Leston Taylor
1866–1921

Canopus

WHEN quacks with pills political would dope us,
When politics absorbs the livelong day,
I like to think about that star Canopus,
So far, so far away.

Greatest of visioned suns, they say who list ’em;
To weigh it science almost must despair.
Its shell would hold our whole dinged solar system,
Nor even know ’twas there.

When temporary chairmen utter speeches,
And frenzied henchmen howl their battle hymns,
My thoughts float out across the cosmic reaches
To where Canopus swims.

When men are calling names and making faces,
And all the world’s ajangle and ajar,
I meditate on interstellar spaces
And smoke a mild seegar.

For after one has had about a week of
The argument of friends as well as foes,
A star that has no parallax to speak of
Conduces to repose.

https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/modern-american-poetry/canopus

[TriciaG]

One more, and I'm done for now - I promise.

The Arrow and the Song
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/complete-poetical-works/songs-the-arrow-and-the-song

[aradlaw]

Thanks for those suggestions Tricia, this saves me searching for stuff this week.

[Euramo]

Hi,
I am a bit lost and new and I am not sure how I am supposed to put my name down for a new work. Can someone help me find something that needs to be done for a "newbie"

[Euramo]

Hi I have recorded a couple of poems how may I upload them? is there a special link ?

[annise]

It is hard at first but you need to go here viewtopic.php?t=97524 and read the first post. If you need to check if the poems are PD in the USA then ask in that thread,
hope this helps. Because we all live in different time zones it can take a while to get an answer,

Anne

[Euramo]

ok thank you, I'm in Australia
thanks this helped a lot will try to submit some poems and see how it goes,
thanks again

[KevinS]

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t4zg6jq54&view=1up&seq=13

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Constant_Lounsbery

1964 death date. Is that a problem?


Of Love, I [one] by G. Constant Lounsbery

As some old minstrel when the world was young,
Unlearned in science, innocent of skill,
Would sing his love beside a mountain rill
In his uncouth and all unlettered tongue,
And shake the woodlands till the echoes rung
From dewy morn to dewy eve, and thrill
The listening moon-enchanted hours until
The astonished nightingale all silent hung ;

So would I hymn thee, oh, my sole delight,
While the glad hours after thy beauty trip,
And day to day doth whisper thee along.
With such a theme all unabashed I might
Pipe to the morning with untutored lip,
Or lull the evening with unlettered song.

[annise]

I think there is a policy that weekly and fortnightly poetry is able to be read by all readers not just USA residents
Anne

[KevinS]

I think there is a policy that weekly and fortnightly poetry is able to be read by all readers not just USA residents
Anne

Anne, is that 70 years after death now?

[TriciaG]

I think there is a policy that weekly and fortnightly poetry is able to be read by all readers not just USA residents
Anne

That's for weekly. Fortnightly can be PD for US only - unless David has changed the policy.

[KevinS]

I think there is a policy that weekly and fortnightly poetry is able to be read by all readers not just USA residents
Anne

That's for weekly. Fortnightly can be PD for US only - unless David has changed the policy.

Well, it's a shorter poem. I just thought I'd give David a week off. I'll see if I can find something else to be used whenever he wishes.

[msfry]

I could BC this lovely patriotic poem whenever the time seems right, preferably as a fortnightly:

(Written in honor of Csesar Rodney, the Delaware delegate whose ride to the Continental Congress at Philadelphia to cast the deciding vote enabled the friends of Liberty to pass the Declaration of Independence, on Thursday, July Fourth, Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-six.) Edward Doyle was known as "The Blind Poet of Harlem", having lost his sight at 13 years of age, and writing several collections of poems including "The Haunted Temple" and "Freedom, Truth and Beauty".

Liberty Bell, by Edward Doyle, 1905
https://archive.org/details/hauntedtempleand00doyliala/page/48/mode/2up?q=liberty+bell

Liberty Bell without a tongue,
Over the Hall of Congress, swung.
True was its metal, and wrought well ;
Yet, as it swayed, no one could tell
Whether it ever, or soon, would sound.
"Find Rodney, quick!" the cry went round.

Far in the field, drear miles away,
Rodney was -arming for the fray."
Learning that he, and he alone,
Could give that bell eternal tone,
How, through a cloud of wood and weed,
He spurred and spurred his lightning steed!

Liberty Bell without a tongue,
Over the Hall of Congress, swung.
Rightward and left, it swung for hours.
Whether the Dawn, or Midnight Powers,
That wrestled on high, would win the bell
For silence, or sound, no one could tell.

Out of the cloud of wood and weed,
Village and town, dropt Rodney's steed.
Into the Hall the rider sprang,
Touched the bell, and, God! it rang!
Rang! Rang a grand sunrise of sound,
Awaking Man the whole world round!

[aradlaw]

Hi Michele, you are welcome to BC next weekend when the current Fortnightly is finished.

[msfry]

Hi Michele, you are welcome to BC next weekend when the current Fortnightly is finished.

Okay. Just to confirm, it should go up on Sunday the 16th? And end at midnight on Saturday the 29th of April?