In Jerusalem, and I mean within the ancient walls,
I walk from one epoch to another without a memory
to guide me. The prophets over there are sharing
the history of the holy . . . ascending to heaven
and returning less discouraged and melancholy, because love
and peace are holy and are coming to town.
I was walking down a slope and thinking to myself: How
do the narrators disagree over what light said about a stone?
Is it from a dimly lit stone that wars flare up?
I walk in my sleep. I stare in my sleep. I see
no one behind me. I see no one ahead of me.
All this light is for me. I walk. I become lighter. I fly
then I become another. Transfigured. Words
sprout like grass from Isaiah’s messenger
mouth: “If you don’t believe you won’t believe.”
I walk as if I were another. And my wound a white
biblical rose. And my hands like two doves
on the cross hovering and carrying the earth.
I don’t walk, I fly, I become another,
transfigured. No place and no time. So who am I?
I am no I in ascension’s presence. But I
think to myself: Alone, the prophet Mohammad
spoke classical Arabic. “And then what?”
Then what? A woman soldier shouted:
Is that you again? Didn’t I kill you?
I said: You killed me . . . and I forgot, like you, to die.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Sonnet CXLIV by William Shakespeare
- The Scissors-Grinder by Vachel Lindsay
- Apology to Mr. Syme for not dining with him by Robert Burns
- Николай Языков – Дума (Одну минуту, много две)
- Анатолий Жигулин – Эпоха
- Calypso by W H Auden
- Il Penseroso poem – John Milton poems
- Федор Тютчев – Как ни бесилося злоречье
- Hex by Rachel McKibbens
- John Sutter by Yvor Winters
- Sonnet Ii
- The Road That Runs Beside The River by Thomas Lux
- Poet Herodia of ancient Pincaeia by Raj Arumugam
- They won’t Know by Rifat Ilgaz
- Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 4 by Robert Burns
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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).