I Want to Write
I want to write
I want to write
the songs of my people.
I want to hear them
singing melodies in the dark.
I want to catch the last floating strains
from their sob-torn throats.
I want to frame their dreams
into words;
their souls into notes.
I want to catch their sunshine laughter in a bowl;
fling dark hands to a darker sky
and fill them full of stars
then crush and mix such lights till they become
a mirrored pool of brilliance in the dawn.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Natural History of Elephants by Milton Acorn
- Robert Burns: Raving Winds Around Her Blowing: I composed these verses on Miss Isabella M’Leod of Raza, alluding to her feelings on the death of her sister, and the still more melancholy death of her sister’s husband, the late Earl of Loudoun, who shot himself out of sheer heart-break at some mortifications he suffered, owing to the deranged state of his finances.-R.B., 1971.
- Notice by Steve Kowit
- Владимир Высоцкий – Шляпник
- But Outer Space by Robert Frost
- Юлия Друнина – Елка
- I Went Down into the Desert by Vachel Lindsay
- A Poet’s Epitaph by William Wordsworth
- A Petition poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: The Farewell:
- The Effect by Siegfried Sassoon
- John Kinsella’s Lament For Mrs. Mary Moore by William Butler Yeats
- Am I the Assassin or the Undertaker by T. Wignesan
- A Pastoral Upon The Birth of Prince Charles: Presented to the King, and Set by Mr Nic. Laniere by Robert Herrick
- Though All The World poem – Alfred Austin
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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).
