by Alden Nowlan
Not every wino is a Holy Man.
Oh, but some of them are.
I love those who’ve learned
to sit comfortably
for long periods with their hams
pressed against their calves,
outdoors,
with a wall for a back-rest,
contentedly saying nothing.
These move about only when
necessary,
on foot, and almost always
in pairs.
I think of them as oblates.
Christ’s blood is in their veins
or they thirst for it.
They have looked into the eyes
of God,
unprotected by smoked glass.
A few random poems:
- Олег Сердобольский – Два кораблика
- Robert Burns: Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry: Requesting a Favour
- A Ballad (Thesis for a Doctor’s Degree) poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- A Girl by Ezra Pound
- Владимир Британишский – Утром 10 мая 1945 года
- Иван Мятлев – Наставление Гр[афине] Р[астопчиной]
- Ask Me No More by Thomas Carew
- Song In March by William Gilmore Simms
- Mother, I cannot mind my Wheel by Walter Savage Landor
- Final Soliloquy Of The Interior Paramour by Wallace Stevens
- Robert Burns: Here’s His Health In Water :
- The Poplars by William Barnes
- Closed Path by Rabindranath Tagore
- To E. poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Twiddle-de-dee by Muralidharan Mudaliar
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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
