In the Forest of Life
by Mike Yuan
like an open cage
like a free hotel
my balcony has become a home
to many wild city birds
pigeons philosophizing in private
seagulls stalking with arrogance
crows beaking at unseen seeds
sparrows quarreling non-stop
on the branched-out railings
behind the dusk dyed wall
sometimes all alone
more often in company
looking out of my wingless window
i find myself to be one of them
coming to perch here by chance
but ready to flee by need
(sept.11, 2004)
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Summons poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Moony Affair by Satish Verma
- Юлия Жадовская – Ах, бабушкин сад
- Green Fields by W. S. Merwin
- Accidents by Russell Edson
- Catching the Rain by Raj Napal
- Here’s to the Mice! by Vachel Lindsay
- Farewell (II) by Wang Wei
- Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 XII. Sonnet Composed At —- Castle by William Wordsworth
- Arithmetic on the Frontier by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry: Requesting a Favour
- All through eternity by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- A Song Of The Future. by Sidney Lanier
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 54. Oh, yet we Trust that somehow Goo poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Excelsior. by Walt Whitman
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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).
