Speaking To You (From Rock Bottom)
by Michael Ondaatje
Speaking to you
this hour
these days when
I have lost the feather of poetry
and the rains
of separation
surround us tock
tock like Go tablets
Everyone has learned
to move carefully
‘Dancing’ ‘laughing’ ‘bad taste’
is a memory
a tableau behind trees of law
In the midst of love for you
my wife’s suffering
anger in every direction
and the children wise
as tough shrubs
but they are not tough
–so I fear
how anything can grow from this
all the wise blood
poured from little cuts
down into the sink
this hour it is not
your body I want
but your quiet company
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Transcience by Sarojini Naidu
- Roar Shack poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
- Vertumnus and Pomona : Ovid’s Metamorphoses, book 14 [v. 623-771] poem – Alexander Pope
- Gratitude To The Unknown Instructors by William Butler Yeats
- Sea God and the wind rose by Vinko Kalinić
- Hoppleroopleoopledook by Pornika Ganguly
- Что такое хорошо и что такое плохо – Владимир Маяковский (Стих): Читать стихотворение на Poetry Monster
- Алексей Жемчужников – Заметки о некоторой публицистике
- Song—The Tear-drop—“Wae is my heart” by Robert Burns
- A Subaltern’s Love Song poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Argus poem – Alexander Pope
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 05 by Torquato Tasso
- Олег Григорьев – Участковый стал в двери стучать
- Владимир Маяковский – Реклама Мосполиграф
- Patience poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
Some external links:
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).
Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943) is a renowned Canadian author and poet. He is best known for his novel “The English Patient,” which won the Booker Prize and was later adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. Ondaatje’s works often explore themes of identity, memory, and the impact of war. He has received numerous accolades for his contributions to literature and is considered a significant figure in contemporary Canadian literature.