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:
- Шекспир – Чтобы стихи, рожденные когда-то – Сонет 38
- The Poet as Hero by Siegfried Sassoon
- Алексей Ржевский – Рондо (И всякий так живет)
- Sonnet LXX by William Shakespeare
- wonder life by PALLAVI SINGH
- Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer by William Cowper
- Наталья Шевченко – Прости прости Меня Отец
- Busy Heart, The by Rupert Brooke
- Василий Тредиаковский – Будь жестока, будь упорна
- The Song of Seven Cities by Rudyard Kipling
- The Fairest, Brightest, Hues Of Ether Fade by William Wordsworth
- The Cooling Tower poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet # 18 by Luis A. Estable
- The house where I was born (07) by Yves Bonnefoy
- To A May Baby by Winifred Mary Letts
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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