by Alexander Russo
Two horses grazing in a distant field.
Closer up, a few leaves twisting
on a branch.
The leaves begin to take on
A strange new presence: crinkled,
stubborn face.
One resembles a monster,
paying off a bad Kharmic debt.
It groans, swaying back and forth,
like the broken hand of a pendulum.
Another, as hideous, pock-marked,
grief stricken.
The more I study them, the more faces,
festering, doomed to Limbo….
or perhaps already in Hell.
Out of nowhere a robin flits up
to the glass, flutters around, seems
partly inside, then outside the window.
I rub my eyes.
Reality …unreality?
Perhaps “reality” is perception, tricked
by colors of mind and imagination.
Alexander Russo
Copyright ©:
Alexander Russo
A few random poems:
- The Child Is Father To The Man by Ted Hughes
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
- good bye, my sweet angel by Raj Arumugam
- He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge by William Butler Yeats
- Михаил Лермонтов – Баллада (В избушке позднею порою)
- Robert Burns: To The Weavers Gin Ye Go:
- Lyonesse
- In Ithica poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Ольга Высотская – Обидчивая кукушка
- Words Of Advice by Ronald G. Auguste
- Sonnet. Written Upon The Top Of Ben Nevis poem – John Keats poems
- Михаил Кузмин – Врезанные в песок заливы
- In Salutation to the Eternal Peace by Sarojini Naidu
- Birds Calling in the Ravine by Wang Wei
- A Tale of the Sea by William Topaz McGonagall
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Валерий Брюсов – Испанская песенка
- Валерий Брюсов – Искушение
- Валерий Брюсов – Искатель
- Валерий Брюсов – Инкогнито
- Валерий Брюсов – In hас lackimarum valle (в этой долине слез )
- Валерий Брюсов – Il bacio
- Валерий Брюсов – Игорю Северянину (Строя струны лиры клирной)
- Валерий Брюсов – Идут года. Но с прежней страстью
- Валерий Брюсов – Идеал
- Валерий Брюсов – И вдруг все станет так понятно
- Валерий Брюсов – И. Туманьяну надпись на книге (Да будет праведно возмездие)
- Валерий Брюсов – И снова давние картины
- Валерий Брюсов – И снова дрожат они, грезы бессильные
- Валерий Брюсов – И он взглянул, и ты уснула, и он ушел, и умер день
- Валерий Брюсов – И небо и серое море
- Валерий Брюсов – Грядущие гунны
- Валерий Брюсов – Грустный вечер
- Валерий Брюсов – Гребцы триремы
- Валерий Брюсов – Городу дифирамб
- Валерий Брюсов – Город женщин
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) was a a post-Restoration English poet and satirist. He is a poet of the (British) Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents.