by Ai
We smile at each other
and I lean back against the wicker couch.
How does it feel to be dead? I say.
You touch my knees with your blue fingers.
And when you open your mouth,
a ball of yellow light falls to the floor
and burns a hole through it.
Don’t tell me, I say. I don’t want to hear.
Did you ever, you start,
wear a certain kind of dress
and just by accident,
so inconsequential you barely notice it,
your fingers graze that dress
and you hear the sound of a knife cutting paper,
you see it too
and you realize how that image
is simply the extension of another image,
that your own life
is a chain of words
that one day will snap.
Words, you say, young girls in a circle, holding hands,
and beginning to rise heavenward
in their confirmation dresses,
like white helium balloons,
the wreathes of flowers on their heads spinning,
and above all that,
that’s where I’m floating,
and that’s what it’s like
only ten times clearer,
ten times more horrible.
Could anyone alive survive it?
A few random poems:
- Haltering by Satish Verma
- Primrose Rose by Rainbow Reed
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Современная идиллия
- Levitation
- Dawn Revisited by Rita Dove
- Love’s Fitfulness poem – Alfred Austin
- A Translation Of The Nightingale Out Of Strada by William Strode
- Ольга Ермолаева – Псевдоготика для русских романтических сердец
- God Neither Known Nor Loved By The World by William Cowper
- Landowners by Sylvia Plath
- Аnything can happen
- Олег Григорьев – Много нас по подобию божию
- Why Did I Laugh Tonight? No Voice Will Tell poem – John Keats poems
- On a Forenoon of Spring by William Allingham
- Lunar Eclipse by Satish Verma
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
- Эмиль Верхарн – Завершение
- Эмиль Верхарн – Занавески
- Эмиль Верхарн – Законы
- Эмиль Верхарн – Заблуждение
- Эмиль Верхарн – Я радость бытия принес тебе в подарок
- Эмиль Верхарн – Я покидаю сна густую сень
- Эмиль Верхарн – Хвала человеческому телу
- Эмиль Верхарн – Холод
- Эмиль Верхарн – Хлебопечение
- Эмиль Верхарн – Вперед
- Эмиль Верхарн – Вот лампа зажжена
- Эмиль Верхарн – Восстание
- Эмиль Верхарн – Воскресное утро
- Эмиль Верхарн – Вокруг моего дома
- Sergei Esenin (Serguei Yesenin, Sergueï Essénine) – Sounds of Sorrow
- Джон Мильтон – Псалом 8
- Джон Мильтон – Псалом 1
- Джон Мильтон – По случаю своего двадцатитрехлетия
- Джон Мильтон – О своей слепоте
- Джон Мильтон – О Шекспире
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
