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
- Владимир Британишский – Не поселятся ли олени
- Invitation To The Redbreast by William Cowper
- Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
- fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
- The Fall by Russell Edson
- Олег Бундур – Красивая мама
- Song by Sir Philip Sidney
- Владимир Британишский – Ладожский канал
- Sonnet 54: O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem by William Shakespeare
- To E. poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Гумилев – Маэстро
- Robert Burns: Willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut:
- Николай Рубцов – Весна на берегу Бии
- The City That Will Not Repent by Vachel Lindsay
- To His Noble Friend, Mr. Richard Lovelace, Upon His Poems poem – Andrew Marvell poems
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).
