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
- Ode to Mother Nature by Walter William Safar
- Юнна Мориц – Дрожащие губы и скрежет плаща
- Иван Мятлев – Сельское хозяйство
- The Routine Things Around The House by Stephen Dunn
- Childhood by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Villon by Siegfried Sassoon
- Иван Барков – Венерино оружие
- Федор Сологуб – Золушка
- Character Of The Happy Warrior by William Wordsworth
- Peace Universal Good
- Robert Burns: Love In The Guise Of Friendship:
- Crapulous Impression
- Autumnal Sonnet by William Allingham
- Виктор Гусев – Песня о Москве
- A Tale of Christmas Eve by William Topaz McGonagall
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).
