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:
- Not the Pilot. by Walt Whitman
- Жан де Лафонтен – Орел и Сова
- Николай Заболоцкий – Весна в лесу
- Here Dead We Lie poem – A. E. Housman
- To Christina, Queen of Sweden poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Beast and Man in India by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Вологдин – Не играйте, мальчики, в войну
- At The Gate Of A Hospital by Shahida Latif
- Let The Weary World Go Round poem – Alfred Austin
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись 1 к статуе Петра Великого
- Joy of giving by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Николай Заболоцкий – Вечерний бар
- Landscape by Paul Celan
- The Heart Chirps by Ramesh Anand
- Валерий Брюсов – Последнее желанье
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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
