I am sick today,
sick in my body,
eyes wide open, silent,
I lie on the bed of childbirth.
Why do I, so used to the nearness of death,
to pain and blood and screaming,
now uncontrollably tremble with dread?
A nice young doctor tried to comfort me,
and talked about the joy of giving birth.
Since I know better than he about this matter,
what good purpose can his prattle serve?
Knowledge is not reality.
Experience belongs to the past.
Let those who lack immediacy be silent.
Let observers be content to observe.
I am all alone,
totally, utterly, entirely on my own,
gnawing my lips, holding my body rigid,
waiting on inexorable fate.
There is only one truth.
I shall give birth to a child,
truth driving outward from my inwardness.
Neither good nor bad; real, no sham about it.
With the first labor pains,
suddenly the sun goes pale.
The indifferent world goes strangely calm.
I am alone.
It is alone I am.
A few random poems:
- Ольга Седакова – Всё, и сразу
- A Prayer For Old Age by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Высоцкий – Новые левые, мальчики бравые
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Владимир Набоков – О, любовь, ты светла и крылата
- Владимир Высоцкий – Наши добрые зрители
- Dedication by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ольга Берггольц – 27 января 1945 года
- Алексей Жемчужников – Сословные речи
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не отдавайте в физики детей
- Robert Burns: The Slave’s Lament:
- Haiku: January by Monty Gilmer
- first_light.html
- Sonnet 01
- Вера Полозкова – Горький запах полыни
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
- Limbo Under the Westway poem – André Rostant poems
- A Rainy Night poem – André Rostant poems
- “European Union” by the (Roman/German) Eagles
- 決定
- Decision
- 我的妻子。 安德烈·布勒東一首關於自由戀愛的詩
- Less Time poem – Andre Breton poems
- Freedom of Love poem | L’Union Libre (Ma Femme) – Andre Breton poems
- Le Verbe Etre poem – Andre Breton poems
- Five Ways To Kill A Man poem – Andre Breton poems
- Always for the first time
- I have a dream
- Putin, Our Savior and Dear Friend
- Shame
- A Poem about Lemonade
- About Wedding Dress
- Spirituality of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins: a shepherd poet
- What Shall I Do For the Land that Bred Me poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- What Being in Rank-Old Nature poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Tom’s Garland poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
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
