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
- Some Say by Mark Miller
- Prayer, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem: Prière by T. Wignesan.
- Days and Nights by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- A Soldier’s Song by Stephenie Tucker
- Ode to Beer, an Irish Song
- Шекспир – По совести скажи – Сонет 10
- A Ballad Of The Trees And The Master by Sidney Lanier
- Borrowed Verses by Subhash Misra
- Sweet Colonnade by Vasil Slavov
- Child of a Day by Walter Savage Landor
- Ольга Высотская – Звёздочки
- Robert Burns: Handsome Nell:
- Devonshire Street W.1 poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Epigram : The Cottager And His Landlord. A Fable (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Алишер Навои – Соловей, лишенный розы, умолкает, не поет
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).
