for Gertrud Widmayer, my landlady at Heidelberg
Why in pensive ticking, silent thoughts
You wile your time away
When all around huge swelling bells
Toll the days away!
Every hour that announced may go
Your silent hands take hold
And though the ages chimed in ears
Yours they never behold.
If all the clocks the world had known
Had struck one strong big note,
They would never still your plodding tone
Nor the working hearth you alert.
Do you wonder, wonder, little clock
What makes the grandfather tick!
Or his aching belly in the depth of sorrow
Cries to the world it’s sick!
Thirty million years and Pleistocene dark,
They are one split second short!
And whimpering suns that rise and flop
Have scarce stolen your tick or thought!
So, my little clock, my faithful clock
When I hear the tall town bell,
I’ll shrug my shoulders, one tiny moment
And know that all is well.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Низами Гянджеви – Пускай охотится на всех газелеоких
- This we Have Now by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- A sense’s addiction to chocolate by SAAJIDA GORA
- I Have Become Very Hairy by Yehuda Amichai
- Lines Written in Windsor Forest poem – Alexander Pope
- Where Have We All Gone by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Clemente’s Images by Robert Creeley
- Олег Бундур – Лагуна
- Clouds by Philip Levine
- Иннокентий Анненский – Гораций
- Gwaïn To Brookwell by William Barnes
- Happy Teacher’s Day by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- The Time Around Scars by Michael Ondaatje
- Robert Burns: My Tocher’s The Jewel:
- Crystal Gazer by Sylvia Plath
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).
