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
- Illusion by Mercedes Madrigal
- A Tale. June 1793 by William Cowper
- Владимир Набоков – Будь со мной прозрачнее и проще
- Ash-Boughs poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Happiness by Wilfred Owen
- Кастрюль и сковородок музыкант
- Tu Fu – Tu Fu
- XIII: Some Verses: On A Report On The Death Of The Author by William Alexander
- Ballade Of The Dead Cities poem – Andrew Lang poems
- A Wold Friend by William Barnes
- Ольга Берггольц – Стихи о себе
- Валерий Брюсов – Это я
- My Country Place by Thomas J Camp
- Vaishnavi Prakash – Vaishnavi Prakash
- Coucy
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).
