If grief could burn out
Like a sunken coal
The heart would rest quiet
The unrent soul
Be as still as a veil
But I have watched all night
The fire grow silent
The grey ash soft
And I stir the stubborn flint
The flames have left
And the bereft
Heart lies impotent
End of the poem
15 random poems
- I Can’t Touch The Sun by Shel Silverstein
- Sweeney among the Nightingales by T. S. Eliot
- Whisper of the Star
- Stir in Stillness by Shruti Talnikar
- Владимир Маяковский – Чугунные штаны
- Алексей Плещеев – Ответ
- Time To Transplant by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Epitaph for Maria Wentworth by Thomas Carew
- An Argument by Vachel Lindsay
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- I Want It Now by Roald Dahl
- Владимир Маяковский – Ни на Европу не надейся, ни на прокукиш, надейся только на свои руки (Главполитпросвет №343)
- Константин Батюшков – На книгу под названием «Смесь»
- Magnolia Shoals by Sylvia Plath
- Melinda Mae by Shel Silverstein
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).
Philip Arthur Larkin (1922-1985), Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Cavalier of the Order of the Companions of Honour, was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.