To Dorothy
by Marvin Bell
You are not beautiful, exactly.
You are beautiful, inexactly.
You let a weed grow by the mulberry
And a mulberry grow by the house.
So close, in the personal quiet
Of a windy night, it brushes the wall
And sweeps away the day till we sleep.
A child said it, and it seemed true:
“Things that are lost are all equal.”
But it isn’t true. If I lost you,
The air wouldn’t move, nor the tree grow.
Someone would pull the weed, my flower.
The quiet wouldn’t be yours. If I lost you,
I’d have to ask the grass to let me sleep.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Заказал я два коктейля
- SELF-WATCH by Satish Verma
- Яков Полонский – Наплывает туча с моря
- Высоцкий – Диалог у телевизора (Ой, Вань, смотри какие клоуны): текст стиха Владимира Высоцкого – Poetry Monster
- A Divine Mistress by Thomas Carew
- The Bonnie House O’ Airly poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Farewell by Wang Wei
- The Eagle and the Dove by William Wordsworth
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 05 by Torquato Tasso
- Motel Pool by P. K. Page
- Olney Hymn 4: Jehovah-Nissi: The Lord My Banner by William Cowper
- Юнна Мориц – Приход вдохновения
- Sea of lavender ( 4 pre-summer poems ) by Vasil Slavov
- Robert Burns: To The Beautiful Miss Eliza J-N: On her Principles of Liberty and Equality.
- Statement of Being poem – Ezra Pound poems
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).
