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
- This Compost. by Walt Whitman
- If By Chance Your Eye Offend You poem – A. E. Housman
- Old Man poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Sonnet 144: Two loves I have, of comfort and despair by William Shakespeare
- Elm by Sylvia Plath
- Jerusalem by Yehuda Amichai
- One Inch Tall by Shel Silverstein
- Ballade Of Worldly Wealth poem – Andrew Lang poems
- To You. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: O Can Ye Labour Lea?:
- Владимир Маяковский – Добьем! (РОСТА №745)
- Robert Burns: Gude Ale Keeps The Heart Aboon:
- The Song of the Cities by Rudyard Kipling
- Шекспир – Меня не радует твоя печаль – Сонет 34
- Sonnet 09 poem – John Milton 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).
