I give up my eyes which are glass eggs.
I give up my tongue.
I give up my mouth which is the contstant dream of my tongue.
I give up my throat which is the sleeve of my voice.
I give up my heart which is a burning apple.
I give up my lungs which are trees that have never seen the moon.
I give up my smell which is that of a stone traveling through rain.
I give up my hands which are ten wishes.
I give up my arms which have wanted to leave me anyway.
I give up my legs which are lovers only at night.
I give up my buttocks which are the moons of childhood.
I give up my penis which whispers encouragement to my thighs.
I give up my clothes which are walls that blow in the wind
and I give up the ghost that lives in them.
I give up. I give up.
And you will have none of it because already I am beginning
again without anything.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Bituminous? by Shel Silverstein
- Ianthe’s Question by Walter Savage Landor
- Михаил Лермонтов – Вид гор из степей Козлова
- Heroic Simile by Robert Hass
- Ольга Седакова – В незапамятных зимах
- Иван Крылов – Ода, выбранная из псалма 14-го
- Chi È? poem – Alfred Austin
- Perseus by Sylvia Plath
- The Common Life by W H Auden
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Владимир Корнилов – Прямота
- Нина Воронель – Август
- The Pleäce Our Own Ageän by William Barnes
- So You Say by Mark Strand
- Lost Star by Rabindranath Tagore
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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).