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
- The Baptistry
- A Tale. June 1793 by William Cowper
- I See so Deeply Within Myself by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Cinema Therapy and The MovieMaking Process
- Аля Кудряшева – Мне снился
- Writing Science Poetry
- Two Songs
- Dust by Sara Teasdale
- Новелла Матвеева – Восток, прошедший чрез воображенье
- To A Lady On The Death Of The Three Relations by Phillis Wheatley
- Tree Knowledge
- Владимир Британишский – Чай
- A Poet’s Epitaph by William Wordsworth
- Валерий Брюсов – Испанская песенка
- Minnie and Winnie poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson 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).
