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
- Fragment poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More’s by Robert Burns
- By Garpal Stream by Stanley Wilkin
- Sonnet To Mrs. Reynolds’s Cat poem – John Keats poems
- A Winter Eden by Robert Frost
- Яков Полонский – Поэт и гражданин, он призван был учить
- A Tale of Starvation poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- My World Destroyed by Roberto Cocina
- Oh, see how thick the goldcup flowers poem – A. E. Housman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Жизни после смерти нет
- Николай Языков – А. Н. Вульфу (Мой брат по вольности и хмелю)
- Practising The Anthem
- Long I Thought that Knowledge. by Walt Whitman
- The Polar Koala Bear by Robby Charters
- He That Loves A Rosy Cheek by Thomas Carew
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).
