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
- Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity poem – John Milton poems
- Алексей Толстой – Смеркалось, жаркий день бледнел неуловимо
- Cambridge in the Long poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonet 55 by William Alexander
- To a Western Boy. by Walt Whitman
- Ezra on the Strike poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Маяковский – В Европе кризис (РОСТА №869)
- Николай Заболоцкий – Прощание
- The Last Redoubt poem – Alfred Austin
- Love’s Divinest Power by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Николай Заболоцкий – Бетховен
- Earth’s Answer by William Blake
- IN VINCULUM by PEGGY AYLSWORTH
- Владимир Маяковский – Чтоб из недели “Заботы о достоянии” толку выйти, вот так, товарищи, агитацию ведите (Главполитпросвет №374)
- Atavism by William Stafford
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).
