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
- Letter In November by Sylvia Plath
- The Captain by Stevens Cadet
- Essay on Man poem – Alexander Pope
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Чем больше в мире я живу
- The Bridge by Shel Silverstein
- Robert Burns: How Lang And Dreary Is The Night:
- Владимир Костров – Вот женщина с седыми волосами
- Balin and Balan poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Михаил Кузмин – Возвращение
- First Sight by Philip Larkin
- The Wind At The Door by William Barnes
- “Look up, desponding hearts! See, Morning sallies” poem – Alfred Austin
- A PARANAETICALL, OR ADVISIVE VERSETO HIS FRIEND, MR JOHN WICKS by Robert Herrick
- The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) poem – Alexander Pope
- Sonnet CVIII by William Shakespeare
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).
