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
- Владимир Гиппиус – Узел
- Canto I poem – Ezra Pound poems
- There Came a Soul by Rita Dove
- Robert Burns: Poor Mailie’s Elegy:
- La Regina Avrillouse poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Farewell To Italy poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Глазков – Пусть будет эта повесть
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Средь бега дней моих порой
- A Form Of Women by Robert Creely
- Year’s End by Weldon Kees
- Sit Smiling by Rabindranath Tagore
- Paradise On Earth! by V. Muthu Manickam
- Bubblin’ Up by Shel Silverstein
- The Prarie Battlements by Vachel Lindsay
- The Last Laugh poem – John Betjeman poems
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).
