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
- Олег Бундур – Ужин
- Омар Хайям – Коль станешь твердым
- Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive by Robert Burns
- The Poet And The Muse poem – Alfred Austin
- Эмиль Верхарн – Я покидаю сна густую сень
- Ольга Седакова – Все труды
- Who Is This? by Rabindranath Tagore
- Николай Заболоцкий – Старость
- Eve by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Cologne by Paul Celan
- Who does she think she is…. by Shel Silverstein
- The Bell Buoy by Rudyard Kipling
- The Moods by William Butler Yeats
- Sonnet 42: That thou hast her, it is not all my grief by William Shakespeare
- Objector by William Stafford
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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.