They are so beautiful, and so very young
they seem almost to glitter with perfection,
these creatures that I briefly move among.
I never get to stay with them for long,
but even so, I view them with affection:
they are so beautiful, and so very young.
Poised or clumsy, placid or high-strung,
they’re expert in the art of introspection,
these creatures that I briefly move among—
And if their words don’t quite trip off the tongue
consistently, with just the right inflection,
they remain beautiful. And very young.
Still, I have to tell myself it’s wrong
to think of them as anything but fiction,
these creatures that I briefly move among—
Because, like me, they’re traveling headlong
in that familiar, vertical direction
that coarsens beautiful, blackmails young—
the two delusions we all move among.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Sonnet XV. On The Grasshopper And Cricket poem – John Keats poems
- Михаил Кузмин – Заключение (Водительница Одигитрия)
- Владимир Корнилов – Арена
- Heroic Simile by Robert Hass
- Robert Burns: Braving Angry Winter’s Storms:
- The Eclipsed Past by Tholana Ashok Chakravarthy
- Harp Song of the Dane Women by Rudyard Kipling
- Олег Митяев – Француженка
- Федор Сологуб – Астероид
- Broccoli by Rina Ferrarelli
- The Seafarer poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Io v’amo sol perche (I Love You Simply Because) by Torquato Tasso
- The Last Wolf by Mary TallMountain
- The Times Are Nightfall poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Dedication by Rainer Maria Rilke
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).
