TEMPORARY AND NOW
by PEGGY AYLSWORTH
Discard has a melancholy sound,
as rust sets in,
even
the graffiti too much like weeds.
Into the junk yard,
in favor of bluer skies.
Make it new, said Pound,
quoting a Chinese emperor.
New clothes
New car
New rings and things
New lover
New and better tooth paste
Alas, the glitter and glitz
is merely landscape,
trying
for a magical view
to stave off…
And yet…
the coral trees
come round again…not new
but
out of their sameness
inscape
bursting through
the blossoms.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Robert Burns: A Poet’s Welcome To His Love-Begotten Daughter: The First Instance That Entitled Him To The Venerable Appellation Of Father
- The Bard by Thomas Gray
- Hero-Worship poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- I Hardly Remember by Rafael Guillen
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 02 by Torquato Tasso
- Николай Языков – Баян к русскому воину
- The End of the World
- The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit
- The Wolf and the Dog by William Somervile
- How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven by Vachel Lindsay
- Василий Курочкин – Как не вскрикнуть тут с поэтом
- Вера Павлова – за руку здороваться с рекой
- Sometimes by Vinko Kalinić
- Владимир Маяковский – Головотяпам
- Ballad on the American War by Robert Burns
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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).
