Desire # 4
by Patricia Fargnoli
Soon he will leave,
a man with four suitcases
hurrying into the rain.
All that can be kept then
is the black belt of sadness
which you have earned
four times over.
This is the hardest lesson–
you must let go of what
you would hold too firmly.
Four times the bells ring,
loud at first–
and then softer,
the sound disappearing
above you in the wet, white pines.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Наум Коржавин – Поэзия не страсть, а власть
- Walls at Drogheda by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- On A Celebrated Event In Ancient History by William Wordsworth
- Celebrate Spring Today poem with a translation – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Федор Сологуб – Так нежен был внезапный поцелуй
- Pan’s Lament by Rose Mary Boehm
- Orlando Furioso Canto 7 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Владимир Высоцкий – Жизни после смерти нет
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нет меня, я покинул Расею
- Robert Burns: The Book-Worms:
- So Far and So Far, and on Toward the End. by Walt Whitman
- The Child an’ the Mowers by William Barnes
- Иван Демьянов – Парикмахер рак-омар
- The Balloon Of The Mind by William Butler Yeats
- On A Mischievous Bull, Which The Owner Him Sold At The Author’s Instance by William Cowper
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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).
