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
- Night In Arizona by Sara Teasdale
- Nettles by Vernon Scannell
- Robert Burns: Braving Angry Winter’s Storms:
- What the Rattlesnake Said by Vachel Lindsay
- I’ve Got a Golden Ticket by Roald Dahl
- Шекспир – Запечатленный в слове лик твой милый – Сонет 59
- The battle of fire by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Robert Burns: Verses To Collector Mitchell :
- Bantams In Pine-Woods by Wallace Stevens
- Stanzas poem – John Keats poems
- A Toccata Of Galuppi’s by Robert Browning
- Exposed On The Cliffs Of The Heart by Rainer Maria Rilke
- AUTUMN GRAPES by Önder Kurt
- The Lamentation of David Over Saul and Jonathan by William Somervile
- To a Beloved Child by Patrick Pearse
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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.