No shoes and a glossy
red helmet, I rode
on the back of my dad’s
Harley at seven years old.
Before the divorce.
Before the new apartment.
Before the new marriage.
Before the apple tree.
Before the ceramics in the garbage.
Before the dog’s chain.
Before the koi were all eaten
by the crane. Before the road
between us, there was the road
beneath us, and I was just
big enough not to let go:
Henno Road, creek just below,
rough wind, chicken legs,
and I never knew survival
was like that. If you live,
you look back and beg
for it again, the hazardous
bliss before you know
what you would miss.
Copyright ©:
2015 Ada Limón
A few random poems:
- Ольга Седакова – Липа
- In Memory Of My Mother by Patrick Kavanagh
- Against Hope
- Along The Sun-Drenched Roadside by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Lamp Of Love by Rabindranath Tagore
- Кондратий Рылеев – Песня (Кто сколько ни хлопочет)
- Вера Павлова – Зеркало по природе правдиво
- Keeping the Dawn by Shaunna Harper
- Владимир Набоков – Еще безмолвствую и крепну я в тиши
- Sonnet 124: If my dear love were but the child of state by William Shakespeare
- Women’s Song Of The Corn poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Cliff Dwelling by Robert Frost
- A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: Tarbolton Lasses, The:
- Paradise Regained: The First Book poem – John Milton poems
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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
