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
- Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar by T. S. Eliot
- English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. The Triumph of Time. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
- The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling
- Town Planning Agencies by Tilottama Chatterjee
- Forest by Walter William Safar
- Sonnet CXVII by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – Наши поправки в англо-советский договор (Красный перец)
- Eclogue III by Virgil
- Sharing Eve’s Apple poem – John Keats poems
- Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke
- To Aziz Song Of Mahomed Akram
- Cornish Cliffs poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Геннадий Айги – БЕЗ НАЗВАНИЯ
- Change
- Out of Town poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
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).
