was then
by A.C. Zenner
it was…
as yet…
not eaten…
that meal…
which tore…
and drew…
the breath…
of life…
from her…
and all…
she strove…
to be…
to him…
his crust…
too thick…
to cut…
with just…
her meager knife
Copyright ©: A.C. Zenner
A few random poems:
- Владимир Костров – Не банкира, не детей Арбата
- Валерий Брюсов – Петербург (Здесь снов не ваял Сансовино)
- Charm, The by Rupert Brooke
- Motionless Body
- a_faded_postcard_is_a_tanka_daydream.html
- Владимир Маяковский – Пятый интернационал
- Whispers of Heavenly Death. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Костров – Выходец из волости лесистой
- Acts Of Love
- Robert Burns: Here’s A Health To Them That’s Awa:
- Низами Гянджеви – Не горюй, ибо друг есть
- Being Underwater by Sahiti Siddharth
- The Last Rhyme of True Thomas by Rudyard Kipling
- E-waste by Nisha Gopalakrishnan
- Яков Полонский – Наплывает туча с моря
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
