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
- Нина Воронель – Мой дед был слепым
- John Bloom In Lon’on by William Barnes
- TOELESS JOURNEY by Satish Verma
- Федор Сологуб – Скупа Филис, но пыл мятежный
- Phallus
- The Slantèn Light O’ Fall by William Barnes
- Михаил Лермонтов – Земля и небо
- Владимир Орлов – Как появились ромашки
- Stings by Sylvia Plath
- meeting.html
- Prairie-Grass Dividing, The. by Walt Whitman
- The Destroyers by Rudyard Kipling
- Blue Mountains by Satish Verma
- day_dream.html
- Константин Бальмонт – На вершине
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).
