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
- Rivers Don’t Gi’e Out by William Barnes
- Олег Григорьев – Слезы
- Channels by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Высоцкий – Оловянные солдатики
- Sonnet CXXIX by William Shakespeare
- Омар Хайям – Не порочь лозы-невесты
- Like Truthless Dreams, So Are My Joys Expired by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Владимир Маяковский – Нечеловеческой силы требовала война… (Главполитпросвет №285)
- For the Young Who Want To by Marge Piercy
- Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow’st by William Shakespeare
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Time And The Garden by Yvor Winters
- Алишер Навои – Моя безумная душа в обломках
- Валерий Брюсов – Из арабской лирики отрывок
- Death Of A Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
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).
