I sink as I sail magnificently
by Michael Nikoletseas
I sink as I sail magnificently
The sky below me black
cribriform
supine chest plates of Chalkis
copper
float by
hugging
Macedonian youths
in Eurotas’ reeds
I sink as I sail magnificently
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Carol of Occupations. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: Address Of Beelzebub: To the Right Honourable the Earl of Breadalbane, President of the Right Honourable and Honourable the Highland Society, which met on the 23rd of May last at the Shakespeare, Covent Garden, to concert ways and means to frustrate the designs of five hundred Highlanders, who, as the Society were informed by Mr. M’Kenzie of Applecross, were so audacious as to attempt an escape from their lawful lords and masters whose property they were, by emigrating from the lands of Mr. Macdonald of Glengary to the wilds of Canada, in search of that fantastic thing-Liberty.
- Николай Языков – Песня (Дороже почестей и злата)
- Gangrene by Philip Levine
- The Pulling Away by Timothy Cole
- The Warning by Robert Creeley
- Юнна Мориц – Осень
- Od’d(ode) to Whitey Bulger by Susan King Saunders
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- Kumarakom (after the boat tragedy) by Shreekumar Varma
- In A Classroom
- Everything by Philip Levine
- A Kind of Life by Stanley Wilkin
- Стефан Малларме – Весеннее обновление
- Sonnet CXLVII by William Shakespeare
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).