it was as though you were standing before a fence
and beyond the curved slats, woven with
blossoms and leaves, over there, in the orchard,
a group of children played
barefoot, ragged, grubby
your heart
shudders, half-wild: those children
racing around, that orchard, longed for
you discover suddenly, within yourself, how badly
you’d play forgetting yourself, neither eating, nor sleeping
you start – someone calls your name
beckons you – come! You look around – do they really
want me?
that wall, sometimes stone, tall, thick
sometimes transparent, or glass, didn’t I
build it myself?
I hear
clanging coming closer, a drum
and from around the corner a group of well-wishers wind
their voices growing louder, clearer
my poor
heart
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Myself by Robert Creeley
- Sub Mare poem – Ezra Pound poems
- On A Goldfinch, Starved To Death In His Cage by William Cowper
- Lord Ullin’s Daughter by Thomas Campbell
- Шекспир – У бедной музы красок больше нет – Сонет 103
- My Father was a Farmer: A Ballad by Robert Burns
- A Dream Or No by Thomas Hardy
- A Paumanok Picture. by Walt Whitman
- 19-19 by Michelle Bonczek Evory
- Михаил Лермонтов – Весна
- The Treasure by Sara Teasdale
- The Silent Battle by Sara Teasdale
- In The Metropolitan Museum by Sara Teasdale
- An Insolent Jew
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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).