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:
- Giving Myself Up by Mark Strand
- The Rhyme of the Three Captains by Rudyard Kipling
- Ольга Берггольц – Песня о ленинградской матери
- Olney Hymn 27: Welcome To The Table by William Cowper
- The Rainy Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- Lover’s Gifts LII: Tired of Waiting by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Ineffectual Dives by Shahida Latif
- Goals – How to Get Everything You Want by Brian Tracy – Review
- Robert Burns: The Country Lass:
- Владимир Корнилов – На колоннаде
- Наталья Шевченко – Он не в себе
- Sonet 35 by William Alexander
- Владимир Степанов – Цыплята (Буква Ц)
- Without exile, who am I? by Mahmoud Darwish
- St. Francis of Assisi by Vachel Lindsay
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
- Sonnet I
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
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
