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
- The River by Mark Olynyk
- Solitudes by Satish Verma
- Юрий Верховский – Ах, душечка моя, как нынче мне светло
- Николай Языков – Валдайский узник
- Николай Гумилев – Кармен худа, коричневатый
- Robert Burns: Theniel Menzies’ Bonie Mary:
- krishna039s_advice_to_arjuna.html
- Илья Эренбург – Ода
- Sonnet To Henry Cowper, Esq. by William Cowper
- A March in the Ranks, Hard-prest. by Walt Whitman
- Evening wind by Yosa Buson
- Ghost House by Robert Frost
- Robert Burns: Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous:
- An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The First Sam Hazo at the Last by Samuel Hazo
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.