each time i pare my nail
i feel deeply grateful
for its unselfish readiness
to die in my stead
sparing me the keen sense
of the unbearable pain of growth
out of those parts of me
always younger
more romantic
and much more memorable
spread randomly
like unnoticeable seeds
sown in the spring soil
End of the poem
15 random poems
- We are Africa by Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon
- Independence poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Рассказ о Климе, купившем заем, и Прове, не подумавшем о счастье своем
- Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be The Same by Robert Frost
- Epitaph on Holy Willie by Robert Burns
- A Farmhouse Dirge poem – Alfred Austin
- Home Is So Sad by Philip Larkin
- Calidore: A Fragment poem – John Keats poems
- Вера Павлова – Вот и пришли времена
- In Memoriam 3: O Sorrow, Cruel Fellowship poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book poem – Alexander Pope
- I Know A Man by Yehuda Amichai
- Robert Burns: Second Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., Of Fintry:
- A Poplar and the Moon by Siegfried Sassoon
- How a Little Girl Sang by Vachel Lindsay
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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).
