by Alissia Lyons
In white beds by white walls
a fresh candle flickers
as it rises and as it stalls
and the baby
turned to its side
a heart born on a sleeve
with no place to hide
and if there’s one thing
it doesn’t need
that’s another life to lead
no mother could simply walk by
for this was a child
with eyes of stone worn
against tides of change
and this child born to die
was never to wear away
and the mother transfixed
with white palms to clear glass
the baby lay still
fists clenched around thumbs
at peace, a mask already held well
yet surmass this small flame
that holds the one light
through falls
through triumphs
births, deaths
and endless lifetimes
the baby reaches to a mother
whose fingers already burn
a mind racing, thoughts chafing
for a detachment
she will never feel again
a new life consuming
old phases exhuming
stripping, ripping away every why
grieving it’s leaving
and in it’s blaze
a natal love, like that fire
lapping both their lives away
Copyright ©:
Alissia Lyons
A few random poems:
- A March Minstrel poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот что для голодающих прислали из-за границы, ассоциации и частные лица (Главполитпросвет №363)
- Владимир Британишский – Кваренги
- Are You a Thinking Man? by Rifat Ilgaz
- “Veruca Salt…” by Roald Dahl
- Robert Burns: Here’s A Health To Them That’s Awa:
- A Pact poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Sonnet X
- At The Last Watch by Rabindranath Tagore
- Philip Levine – Philip Levine
- XV: Some Verses: Ciprian’s Smyling by William Alexander
- On the Beach at Night, Alone. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Маяковский – Живой труп (РОСТА №182)
- Let us pull, pull the boat by Raj Arumugam
- Robert Burns: Willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut:
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
- Paradise Lost: Book 04 poem – John Milton poems
- Paradise Lost: Book 03 poem – John Milton poems
- Paradise Lost: Book 02 poem – John Milton poems
- Paradise Lost: Book 01 poem – John Milton poems
- On Time poem – John Milton poems
- On The University Carrier Who Sickn’d In The Time Of His Vacancy, Being Forbid To Go To London, By Reason Of The Plague poem – John Milton poems
- On the Same poem – John Milton poems
- On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, my Christian Friend, Deceased Dec. 16, 1646 poem – John Milton poems
- On The New Forcers Of Conscience Under The Long Parliament poem – John Milton poems
- On The Morning Of Christs Nativity poem – John Milton poems
- On The Lord Gen. Fairfax At The Seige Of Colchester poem – John Milton poems
- On The Death Of A Fair Infant Dying Of A Cough poem – John Milton poems
- On Shakespear poem – John Milton poems
- On His Deceased Wife poem – John Milton poems
- On His Blindness poem – John Milton poems
- Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint poem – John Milton poems
- Lycidas poem – John Milton poems
- Light poem – John Milton poems
- L’Allegro poem – John Milton poems
- John Milton – John Milton Poems
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
