For The Moment
by Pierre Reverdy
Life is simple and gay
The bright sun rings with a quiet sound
The sound of the bells has quieted
down
This morning the light hits it all
The footlights of my head are lit again
And the room I live in is finally bright
Just one beam is enough
Just one burst of laughter
My joy that shakes the house
Restrains those wanting to die
By the notes of its song
I sing off-key
Ah it’s funny
My mouth open to every breeze
Spews mad notes everywhere
That emerge I don’t know how
To fly toward other ears
Listen I’m not crazy
I laugh at the bottom of the stairs
Before the wide-open door
In the sunlight scattered
On the wall among green vines
And my arms are held out toward you
It’s today I love you
End of the poem
15 random poems
- This Dust was Once the Man. by Walt Whitman
- Water-Fowl Observed Frequently Over The Lakes Of Rydal And Grasmere by William Wordsworth
- Михаил Кузмин – В Канопе жизнь привольная
- Silence
- Robert Burns: Lines Written On A Banknote:
- Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul by William Shakespeare
- Address to the Deil by Robert Burns
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня про стукача
- Mahomet Ali Beg; Or, the Faithful Minister of State by William Somervile
- Lover’s Gifts XXII: I Shall Gladly Suffer by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Высоцкий – Жил-был человек, который очень много видел
- A Statesman’s Holiday by William Butler Yeats
- Вероника Тушнова – Тень
- A Painting Morning
- Reveille by Primo Levi
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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).
