Say tomorrow doesn’t come.
Say the moon becomes an icy pit.
Say the sweet-gum tree is petrified.
Say the sun’s a foul black tire fire.
Say the owl’s eyes are pinpricks.
Say the raccoon’s a hot tar stain.
Say the shirt’s plastic ditch-litter.
Say the kitchen’s a cow’s corpse.
Say we never get to see it: bright
future, stuck like a bum star, never
coming close, never dazzling.
Say we never meet her. Never him.
Say we spend our last moments staring
at each other, hands knotted together,
clutching the dog, watching the sky burn.
Say, It doesn’t matter. Say, That would be
enough. Say you’d still want this: us alive,
right here, feeling lucky.
Copyright ©:
2013 Ada Limón
A few random poems:
- The First Part: Sonnet 2 – I know that all beneath the moon decays by William Drummond
- Юлия Друнина – Запас прочности
- The Goring by Sylvia Plath
- Нина Воронель – Бывает, что вещи меня ненавидят
- Василий Жуковский – Там небеса и воды ясны
- On His Grotto at Twickenham poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Николай Карамзин – Куплеты из одной сельской комедии, игранной благородными любителями театра
- The Meäd In June by William Barnes
- The Sun Has Long Been Set by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Тресты
- After Midnight by Walid Saba
- Жан де Лафонтен – Волк и Конь
- It Takes a While to Disappear by Ralph Angel
- Федор Сваровский – Путешественники во времени. свидетель зиндийского удара
- The Story of Ung by Rudyard Kipling
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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