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
A few random poems:
- Passer-By, These Are Words by Yves Bonnefoy
- The Bird Has Vanished by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Five Songs – II by W H Auden
- “Why should I, from this long and losing strife ” poem – Alfred Austin
- Как живёшь ветеран милиции
- Владимир Высоцкий – Всё меньше вас, участники войны
- Низами Гянджеви – Когда ты локоны свои распустишь
- Silvia by William Shakespeare
- Pharaohs, Protests and Public by Sunil Sharma
- Epigram : On The Inventor Of Gunpowder (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- The Gift by Sara Teasdale
- God’s Work Ethics
- The Story of Uriah by Rudyard Kipling
- The Eve Of St. Agnes poem – John Keats poems
- Thisbes Song
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
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
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