we had to read the instructions as we sank.
In a hand like carded lace. Not nuclear warheads
on the sea’s floor nor the violet flow over the reactor
will outlive this sorrowful rhyme. Vain halo! My project
becalmed, I’ll find I’ve built a monument
more passing than a breeze. It will cost us,
Pobrecito. We can’t buy a prayer. Did you call
my name or was that the floorboard
wheezing? These memories won’t get any bigger,
will they? I think something is coming that will
vastly improve our quietude. I’m growing
snow crystals from vapor in anticipation and praying
for the velvet-cushioned kneeler that I need to pray.
I made this little sound for you to wait in.
2015, Barely Composed (W. W. Norton & Company)
Copyright ©:
Alice Fulton
A few random poems:
- A March Afternoon poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- Валерий Брюсов – И снова дрожат они, грезы бессильные
- Everybody’s Makin’ It Big But Me by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Маяковский – Учитесь! (РОСТА №937)
- Our March by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Алишер Навои – Украсишь ты свой наряд красным
- The Laird Of Waristoun poem – Andrew Lang poems
- St. Winefred’s Well poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Живёт на свете человек
- How to Survive After Losing a Loved One
- Two Lacquer Prints poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Had I The Wyte? She Bade Me:
- Magnolia Shoals by Sylvia Plath
- Not Youth Pertains to Me. by Walt Whitman
- Song, by a Person of Quality poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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
