Bearhug
by Michael Ondaatje
Griffin calls to come and kiss him goodnight
I yell ok. Finish something I’m doing,
then something else, walk slowly round
the corner to my son’s room.
He is standing arms outstretched
waiting for a bearhug. Grinning.
Why do I give my emotion an animal’s name,
give it that dark squeeze of death?
This is the hug which collects
all his small bones and his warm neck against me.
The thin tough body under the pyjamas
locks to me like a magnet of blood.
How long was he standing there
like that, before I came?
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Jeane’s Wedden Day In Mornen by William Barnes
- Trebetherick poem – John Betjeman poems
- Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 1 by Robert Burns
- Казалось, осталось недолго
- The Fable by Yvor Winters
- Who hears the wind by Roland Zoss
- Since There Is No Escape by Sara Teasdale
- La Nuit Blanche by Rudyard Kipling
- Marine Snow At Mid-Depths And Down by Thomas Lux
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ! Шахтер раздет… (РОСТА №603)
- Roar Shack poem – Alice Fulton
- In The New Sun by Philip Levine
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нынче он закончил вехи
- Johnnie Armstrang poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks At The Dancers by William Butler Yeats
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943) is a renowned Canadian author and poet. He is best known for his novel “The English Patient,” which won the Booker Prize and was later adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. Ondaatje’s works often explore themes of identity, memory, and the impact of war. He has received numerous accolades for his contributions to literature and is considered a significant figure in contemporary Canadian literature.