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
- City Dead-House, The. by Walt Whitman
- City of My Childhood
- Eclogue:–The Times by William Barnes
- Илона Грошева – Каждый год в себе несет воскресение
- A Paraphrase on an Ode in Horace’s Third Book, beginning thus:— “Inclusam Danaen turris ahenea.” by Abraham Cowley
- Sepukku
- Владимир Маяковский – Польша
- The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
- The Poetical Works of Tiruloka Sitaram With Translation and Notes – Part II
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- The Explanation by Rudyard Kipling
- In An Underground Dressing Station by Siegfried Sassoon
- Laughter In The Senate by Sidney Lanier
- The Laws of God, The Laws of Man by A. E. Housman
- Жан де Лафонтен – Обезьяна и Дельфин
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).
