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
- The Story of Uriah by Rudyard Kipling
- Henry Clay’s Mouth by Thomas Lux
- A Requisition to the Queen by William Topaz McGonagall
- Николай Огарев – Расстались мы
- Od’d(ode) to Whitey Bulger by Susan King Saunders
- To a Very Wise Man by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Wife A-Praïs’d by William Barnes
- Sitting atop the mountain hill by Swami Aaron Thomas
- Валерий Брюсов – Песня девушки в тайге
- It Takes a While to Disappear by Ralph Angel
- Carpe Diem by William Shakespeare
- Stacking The Straw poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Freemen by John Oxenham
- The Lame Guy by Rob Leatherman Sr.
- Вероника Тушнова – Кто-то в проруби тонет
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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).
