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
- Black Market Love by Taisha Destin
- The Door Of Humility poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Маяковский – Пример, не достойный подражания
- A Poet! He Hath Put His Heart To School by William Wordsworth
- Олег Чупров – Комар
- Complimentary Epigram to Mrs. Riddell by Robert Burns
- Василий Жуковский – Тоска по милом
- Демьян Бедный – Весенний благостный покой
- Moonrise by Yvor Winters
- A London Plane-Tree poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- America by Robert Creeley
- Terminal by Sylvia Plath
- Go Get The Goodly Squab by Sylvia Plath
- The Old Stone Cross by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Степанов – Тула-город мастеров
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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).
