o the poverty of holidays, the sadness of holidays
the shining
windows
in the emptying street, wet
flags, torn and rent
by the wind, rustling leaves
beneath our feet
she opens the door: welcome
it just happens to be
her birthday
she leads us down a long corridor
into distant perspectives
into the past – glimmering
clearly
a straight
old woman (sweater
with darned elbows)
a piano
takes up half the room
photographs – father and mother, old
Vilnius intellectuals
piles of manuscripts
a bicycle
leans against a wall: yes, she still
rides, along the Neris
in the summer
cherished
beloved names on her lips
lives – complicated,
entangled, tragic
(I see: she sits
alone, in an empty room, the wind
blows out the candle in her hand)
End of the poem
15 random poems
- All in June by William Henry Davies
- Михаил Лермонтов – Булевар
- The Current by Raymond Carver
- Алишер Навои – Украсишь ты свой наряд красным
- Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks At The Dancers by William Butler Yeats
- A Crimson Carpet by Pamela Griffiths
- Late Autumn by William Allingham
- Shancoduff by Patrick Kavanagh
- Song—A Bottle and Friend by Robert Burns
- Василий Казин – На могиле матери
- Ballade Of The Dead Cities poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Виталий Кодрян – 31 августа
- To a Friend poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Британишский – Фет в кирасирском полку
- The Dunciad: Book IV poem – Alexander Pope
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).
