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
- Станислав Востоков – Не умею
- Илона Грошева – Когда приходит Дима в парк
- Words Of Love Forevermore by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- The Lent Lily by A. E. Housman
- Postures by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Ольга Берггольц – Из блокнота сорок первого года
- Владимир Маяковский – Ода революции
- Astrophel and Stella: XV by Sir Philip Sidney
- And ask ye why these sad tears stream? poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- I have been tricked by flying too close by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Clouds by Philip Levine
- To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness poem – John Milton poems
- WHAT ENDING by Satish Verma
- discovery.html
- Multi-Miners & Co. Present Ned Kelly by Graham Rowlands
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).
