Down in the valley
by Marcin Malek
There is a valley
between the Ballina and Sligo
where birds and humans
are fading with delight
There is a valley
where mist
is composed of the last breaths
of those who dear
to enter its gates
Christ himself
walks along its sharp ridges
to stroke with a wounded hand
heathers fur
and rocks of the glen
Those who have fallen
into its trap
acquired a knowledge
of the dimension of time
A lot like in Newgrange
when the light
meets the nail hole
only for a few gasps
Then – and then only
seven steps is enough
valley will release
every wondering soul
as sundew stray young
But tomorrow – again
between the Ballina and Sligo
people and gulls from the shore
will glow in the eyes of unknown
as self-confident
refugees from the beyond
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Forced by Mayank Sharma
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Мелочи жизни
- Олег Бундур – Август
- was_then.html
- The house where I was born (05) by Yves Bonnefoy
- A little ink more or less! by Stephen Crane
- A Tale of Elsinore by William Topaz McGonagall
- Ad Nepotem by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Greek Light
- My Own Heart Let Me Have More Have Pity On; Let poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Вишневский – Заявка на романс
- Олег Чупров – Душа
- Imitation poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Years of the Modern. by Walt Whitman
- I Remember, I Remember by Philip Larkin
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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).
