Not a Star
by Adonis
Neither a star,
nor a prophet’s inspiration,
nor a face praying to the moon, is Mihyar.
Here he comes
like a pagan spear,
invading the land of letters,
bleeding
and raising to the sun
his bleeding.
Here he is,
wearing the nakedness of stone
and praying to the caves.
Here he is,
cuddling the light Earth.
Songs of Mihyar the Damamscene
Copyright ©:
translated by Kamal Abu-Deeb
A few random poems:
- Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication by Seamus Heaney
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вот раньше жизнь
- Girl Child – An Alternate Reality by Rekha Seshadri
- The peace of wild things by Wendell Berry
- Sacrifice And Love
- Springfield Magical by Vachel Lindsay
- To A Young Lady Who Had Been Reproached For Taking Long Walks In The Country by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Высоцкий – В холода, в холода
- Юлия Друнина – Я ушла из детства в грязную теплушку
- The Choral Union by Siegfried Sassoon
- Олег Григорьев – Схватили за ногу правую
- Wherever You Go, There You Are by Ryssel Guzman
- Superior by Rabindranath Tagore
- Константин Бальмонт – На мотив псалма XVIII-гo
- Mediocrity in Love Rejected by Thomas Carew
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
