Your Poems on My Patio
by Martina Reisz Newberry
for Djelloul Marbrook
The mountains are perfect
this morning so I re-read
your perfect poems.
Knit two, purl three,
knit two, purl two
and there on the page
is a scarf in hearty woolen
adverbs and adjectives.
I would do nearly anything
to know that someone
lingered over my images
as I do yours and
I would do it twice to find
you’d borrowed
one of my phrases.
You must know that
your poems, so beautiful they
are treacherous, paralyze my pen.
Oh, I realize this isn’t
an appropriate way
to show gratitude, nor is it
an answer to my reflection
in the cracked mirror
of my own regrets.
This morning, my friend,
I found autumn
and the sea,
and terror and love
and wonder and pain
and such enviable
nourishment
that I can never forgive you.
Yes, I am tired,
and even the surreal sky,
even the spirit-filled mountains
don’t rouse me to action.
I read instead—read
Your poems and sip at
a Mimosa because it’s
never too early for champagne
End of the poem
15 random poems
- To The Unattainable
- Mozart’s Grave poem – Alfred Austin
- Sonnet: After Dark Vapors Have Oppress’d Our Plains poem – John Keats poems
- Sonnet 111: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide by William Shakespeare
- On Mistress Nicely, a Pattern for Housekeepers by Thomas Hood
- Ольга Берггольц – Сестре
- Валерий Брюсов – In hас lackimarum valle (в этой долине слез )
- Flowers From Sion: Sonnet 25 – More oft than once death whispered by William Drummond
- Robert Burns: On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child: Born in peculiar circumstances of family distress.
- Ольга Седакова – Вечерняя песня
- The Mother Of God by William Butler Yeats
- Ольга Высотская – Снежный кролик
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 131. O living will that shalt endure poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- If Old Men Fought by Mac McGovern
- Book Thirteenth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored Concluded] by William Wordsworth
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).
