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
- The River by Sara Teasdale
- Not my poem
- Jet by Tony Hoagland
- Written in March by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: A Grace Before Dinner, Extempore:
- Yarrow Revisited by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: O, Were I On Parnassus Hill:
- To His Dead Body by Siegfried Sassoon
- Song—A Rose-bud by my Early Walk by Robert Burns
- A Farmhouse on the Wei River by Wang Wei
- The Wanderer
- Garden of Sprites by Lyndsey Hylton
- Николай Заболоцкий – Дождь
- The Arrow by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: Thou Gloomy December :
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).
