One Almost Might
by A. S. J. Tessimond
Wouldn’t you say,
Wouldn’t you say: one day,
With a little more time or a little more patience, one might
Disentangle for separate, deliberate, slow delight
One of the moment’s hundred strands, unfray
Beginnings from endings, this from that, survey
Say a square inch of the ground one stands on, touch
Part of oneself or a leaf or a sound (not clutch
Or cuff or bruise but touch with finger-tip, ear-
Tip, eyetip, creeping near yet not too near);
Might take up life and lay it on one’s palm
And, encircling it in closeness, warmth and calm,
Let it lie still, then stir smooth-softly, and
Tendril by tendril unfold, there on one’s hand …
One might examine eternity’s cross-section
For a second, with slightly more patience, more time for reflection?
A few random poems:
- Two Kinds of Intelligence by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Орлов – Дядя Миша на печи
- On A Picture Of A Black Centaur By Edmund Dulac by William Butler Yeats
- Arms And The Boy by Wilfred Owen
- Владимир Маяковский – Да здравствует III интернационал! (РОСТА № 140)
- Ezra on the Strike poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Now Hollow Fires Burn Out to Black poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- The End of the Argument by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Нина Пикулева – Яна-Несмеяна
- Rains Have Come poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Наш паровоз, стрелой лети
- Both ways I lose by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Кондратий Рылеев – Гусь и змия
- Валерий Брюсов – Филлида
- Hush’d be the Camps To-day. by Walt Whitman
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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