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
- Forgotten Promises by Rixa White
- The British
- Attitude: Don Juan in the Shopping Mall by S. K. Kelen
- Виталий Сивяков – Крещенье
- Алексей Плещеев – Молчание
- Геннадий Айги – Дом в поле
- Джон Донн – Лекция о тени
- Memory poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Жан де Лафонтен – Воля и Неволя
- Шекспир – Ты положи с моей любовью рядом – Сонет 117
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- An Art by Satish Verma
- Eccentricity by Washington Allston
- On The Final Submission Of The Tyrolese by William Wordsworth
- Au Salon
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).
