you’ve seen a strawberry
that’s had a struggle; yet
was, where the fragments met,
a hedgehog or a star-
fish for the multitude
of seeds. What better food
than apple seeds; the fruit
within the fruit; locked in
like counter-curved twin
hazelnuts? Frost that kills
the little rubber-plant –
leaves of kok-sagyyz-stalks, can’t
harm the roots; they still grow
in frozen ground. Once where
there was a prickley-pear;
leaf clinging to a barbed wire,
a root shot down to grow
in earth two feet below;
as carrots from mandrakes
or a ram’s-horn root some-
times. Victory won’t come
to me unless I go
to it; a grape tendril
ties a knot in knots till
knotted thirty times; so
the bound twig that’s under-
gone and over-gone, can’t stir.
The weak overcomes its
menace, the strong over-
comes itself. What is there
like fortitude! What sap
went through that little thread
to make the cherry red!
End of the poem
15 random poems
- My Father was a Farmer: A Ballad by Robert Burns
- Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski
- … and the moon was sleeping by Steve Troyanovich
- Владимир Маяковский – Учитесь! (РОСТА №937)
- The City Revisited by Stephen Vincent Benet
- At A Vacation Exercise In The Colledge, Part Latin, Part English. The Latin Speeches Ended, The English Thus Began poem – John Milton poems
- Grass is a taut crew; poem – Amy Michelle Mosier poems | Poems and Poetry
- Since There Is No Escape by Sara Teasdale
- Poor Mailie’s Elegy by Robert Burns
- Нина Гаген-Торн – Возвращение
- Claribel: A Melody poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Robert Burns: Phillis The Fair:
- Another On The Same poem – John Milton poems
- Cromwell’s Return poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Whispers of Immortality by T. S. Eliot
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).
