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
- Омар Хайям – Если бог не услышит меня в вышине
- Doomes-Day: The Eleventh Houre by William Alexander
- Who is the Bogeyman? by Ross D Tyler
- Олег Бундур – Если умываться лень
- Forgotten Promises by Rixa White
- All Night In Savannah The Wind Wrote Poetry
- Николай Заболоцкий – Лодейников
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на иллюминацию, представленную ее императорскому Величеству от их императорских высочеств в Ораниенбауме 1750 года июля 31 дня
- Scots Prologue for Mr. Sutherland by Robert Burns
- A Performance At Hog Theater by Russell Edson
- Paris In Spring by Sara Teasdale
- What The Thrush Said. Lines From A Letter To John Hamilton Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
- The Coach Of Life poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Teacher
- The Boy by William Henry Davies
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).
