by Aimé Césaire
A bit of light that descends the springhead of a gaze
twin shadow of the eyelash and the rainbow on a face
and round about
who goes there angelically
ambling
Woman the current weather
the current weather matters little to me
my life is always ahead of a hurricane
you are the morning that swoops down on the lamp a night stone
between its teeth
you are the passage of seabirds as well
you who are the wind through the salty ipomeas of consciousness
insinuating yourself from another world
Woman
you are a dragon whose lovely color is dispersed and darkens so
as to constitute the
inevitable tenor of things
I am used to brush fires
I am used to ashen bush rats and the bronze ibis of the flame
Woman binder of the foresail gorgeous ghost
helmet of algae of eucalyptus
dawn isn’t it
and in the abandon of the ribbands
very savory swimmer
Solar Throat Slashed: The Unexpurgated
Copyright ©:
2011. Translated by Clayton Eshleman
A few random poems:
- Владимир Корнилов – Собака подлеца
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ель и берёза
- An Evening Song. by Sidney Lanier
- Владимир Корнилов – Глухота
- A Pastoral Upon The Birth of Prince Charles: Presented to the King, and Set by Mr Nic. Laniere by Robert Herrick
- Анатолий Жигулин – Где теперь ты, рыжая
- Quicksand Years. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Свой остров
- Владимир Маяковский – В Европе кризис (РОСТА №869)
- Омар Хайям – Когда ветер у розы подол разорвет
- Алексей Плещеев – По чувствам братья мы с тобой
- The end by Mahak Raithatha S
- Robert Burns: Leezie Lindsay: Fragment
- The Space Heater by Sharon Olds
- The Perfect High by Shel Silverstein
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
- Владимир Вишневский – В Мисхоре
- Владимир Вишневский – Тем, что в женщине разбудишь
- Владимир Вишневский – Стада уж боле не пасутся мирно
- Владимир Вишневский – Пассажирский поезд
- Владимир Вишневский – Она идёт – как Восток алеет
- Владимир Вишневский – Незаконная гордость
- Владимир Вишневский – Нервическая песнь
- Владимир Вишневский – На исходе двадцатого века
- Владимир Вишневский – Мой брат на много лет вперёд
- Владимир Вишневский – Кто-то тянется к водному поло
- Владимир Вишневский – Как некстати или срыв спецоперации
- Владимир Вишневский – Из дневника читателя
- Владимир Вишневский – Долго же мы друг друга откладывали
- Владимир Вишневский – Что хочешь ты – желанье изъяви
- Владимир Степанов – Зима
- Владимир Степанов – Жучка и тучка
- Владимир Степанов – Юрий Гагарин
- Владимир Степанов – Ёжик и дождик
- Владимир Степанов – Яхта (Буква Я)
- Владимир Степанов – Хрюшка
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
