From Another Sky
by Pierre Reverdy
What shall become of me
I feel myself dying
Help me
Ah Paris . . . the Pont Neuf
I know this town
Brief pleasures
Brief sorrows
My life
Is it really worth mentioning
Anyone could say the same
And how else to pass the time
I dream of another landscape
A forgotten friend reveals his features
Region of shadows
And pale skies
Native country that returns to me every morning
The journey was a long one
I lost some feathers on the way
And my illusions fell one by one
Still I was then in the midst of springtime
Hardly more than a child
I kept moving on
A clamorous train conveyed me
Little by little I forgot nature
Then the railway station was upon us
We changed cars
And on the station platform no one was waiting
The skeletal dead city
Raises its blast furnaces over there
What shall become of me
Some one touches my forehead with a
fantastic shadow
A hand
But what I thought I saw is only train smoke
I am alone
Yes all alone
No one has come to take my hand
End of the poem
15 random poems
- In Memoriam A. H. H. Obiit MDCCCXXXIII: 3. O Sorrow, cruel poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Robert Burns: Kirk and State Excisemen:
- Вероника Тушнова – Я стою у открытой двери
- Омар Хайям – Это время любви, словно тёплая осень
- The Source by Rabindranath Tagore
- Clouds Above The Sea by Philip Levine
- Haunted by you by Melissa Skelton
- The Gardener XI: Come As You Are by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Song. by Walt Whitman
- Requiem for Two by Vinko Kalinić
- In January by Ted Kooser
- In Praise of Songs that Die by Vachel Lindsay
- Silence by Marianne Moore
- Vivien
- Владимир Маяковский – День в маевочку мою… (Главполитпросвет №151)
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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).
