was then
by A.C. Zenner
it was…
as yet…
not eaten…
that meal…
which tore…
and drew…
the breath…
of life…
from her…
and all…
she strove…
to be…
to him…
his crust…
too thick…
to cut…
with just…
her meager knife
Copyright ©: A.C. Zenner
A few random poems:
- Nikolai Gumilev –
- Who is at my door? by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Николай Языков – Вторая присяга
- On A Political Prisoner by William Butler Yeats
- To The Rev. Mr. Newton, On His Return From Ramsgate by William Cowper
- My Heart Was Full by Stevie Smith
- O Beauty, Passing Beauty! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Monody on a Lady, famed for her Caprice by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Служака
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On John Dove, Innkeeper:
- Motel Seedy by Thomas Lux
- White and Green poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Phillis The Fair:
- The face wanted by Vinko Kalinić
- Follies of War by Michael Levy
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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
