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
- The Upstairs Room by Weldon Kees
- Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling. by Walt Whitman
- Trio Of Love Songs by Sylvia Plath
- Bishop Blougram’s Apology by Robert Browning
- Hummingbird by Nicole M Nugent
- Владимир Британишский – Паллас
- Torn Shades by Thomas Lux
- The Rose and the Cross poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Костров – Смуту и безверье не приемль
- November 1813 by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Британишский – Крик ворон
- Robert Burns: My Peggy’s Charms:
- Юрий Верховский – Зачем, паук, уходишь торопливо
- The Return by Sara Teasdale
- From ‘Arcades’ poem – John Milton poems
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