On the warm July river
head back
upside down river
for a roof
slowly paddling
towards an estuary between trees
there’s a dog
learning to swim near me
friends on shore
my head
dips
back to the eyebrow
I’m the prow
on an ancient vessel,
this afternoon
I’m going down to Peru
soul between my teeth
a blue heron
with its awkward
broken backed flap
upside down
one of us is wrong
he
his blue grey thud
thinking he knows
the blue way
out of here
or me
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Duns Scotus’s Oxford poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Николай Огарев – С полуночи ветер холодный подул
- Berenda Slough by Philip Levine
- On a certain Lady at Court poem – Alexander Pope
- Mohini Chatterjee by William Butler Yeats
- The Lent Lily poem – A. E. Housman
- Иван Варавва – Выйду в степь, на поля плодородные
- Locations and Times. by Walt Whitman
- Hush’d be the Camps To-day. by Walt Whitman
- The Ancient Deception by Rixa White
- Orchard by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Огюст Барбье – Покинутый
- An Apology For Not Showing Her What I Had Wrote by William Cowper
- September poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- from The Tenth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
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).
Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943) is a renowned Canadian author and poet. He is best known for his novel “The English Patient,” which won the Booker Prize and was later adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. Ondaatje’s works often explore themes of identity, memory, and the impact of war. He has received numerous accolades for his contributions to literature and is considered a significant figure in contemporary Canadian literature.