I empty myself of the names of others. I empty my pockets.
I empty my shoes and leave them beside the road.
At night I turn back the clocks;
I open the family album and look at myself as a boy.
What good does it do? The hours have done their job.
I say my own name. I say goodbye.
The words follow each other downwind.
I love my wife but send her away.
My parents rise out of their thrones
into the milky rooms of clouds. How can I sing?
Time tells me what I am. I change and I am the same.
I empty myself of my life and my life remains.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Кондратий Рылеев – Переводчику «Андромахи»
- In a Subway Station by Sara Teasdale
- Вера Полозкова – И катись бутылкой по автостраде
- Robert Burns: To The Beautiful Miss Eliza J-N: On her Principles of Liberty and Equality.
- Enigmatic by Satish Verma
- Among Children by Philip Levine
- The Gardener LV: It Was Mid-Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- Нина Гаген-Торн – Тихо пальцы опускаю
- Absence poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Locksley Hall poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Epigrams against the Earl of Galloway by Robert Burns
- You Must n’t Swim… by Rudyard Kipling
- Love Poem by Aditya Kumar
- Epistle on J. Lapraik by Robert Burns
- Epistle to the Rev. John M’Math by Robert Burns
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).
