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
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 02 by Torquato Tasso
- Ок Мельникова – Подростковые драмы
- Halo by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Владимир Маяковский – Слово “Товарищ” говоришь ты?! (РОСТА №449)
- Николай Языков – Сказка о пастухе и диком вепре
- Иван Дмитриев – Слепец, Собака его и Школьник
- Ione, Dead the Long Year poem – Ezra Pound poems
- On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Whitsun by Sylvia Plath
- Together by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Drunkards in the Street by Vachel Lindsay
- Attempted Assassination of the Queen by William Topaz McGonagall
- Stanzas poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Луговской – Лимонная ночь
- The Dreams Of My Heart by Sara Teasdale
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).