Composition
by Peter Cooley
I have watched from this chair all afternoon
alone, while snow traces features of hills
I’d never noticed, watching the light fall,
get up, fall, pulling the dark after it.
No one is here. No one inhabits me
but my poem, images that stumble, rise
to take the air, refusing measure, lines
refusing breath.Tangible as angels.
The house is still, my wife& children gone
till dinner. No one. The quiet almosty breaks
it is so fine,this paper always blank
where I sit, shaking, shaking words like bells
in the company of strangers, myself.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Омар Хайям – Будь камнем твердым я
- Are You a Thinking Man? by Rifat Ilgaz
- My Beach by Robert Saltzman
- By the Hoof of the Wild Goat by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On John Dove, Innkeeper:
- The Old Stone Cross by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Наврут полный короб… (Главполитпросвет №68)
- The First Part: Sonnet 2 – I know that all beneath the moon decays by William Drummond
- Владимир Бенедиктов – С могучей страстию в мучительной борьбе
- Fancy Dress by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Gardener LXVIII: None Lives For Ever, Brother by Rabindranath Tagore
- Poems On Time by Rabindranath Tagore
- Вера Полозкова – Есть дерево, в лесу всего древней
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мартовский Заяц
- Жан де Лафонтен – Ласочка в амбаре
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
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).
