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:
- Вероника Тушнова – Мать
- Олег Бундур – Хорошее слово
- Владимир Маяковский – Проверь, товарищ, правильность факта
- Джон Китс – Девчонка из Девона
- This Evening Also by Paul Celan
- Владимир Солоухин – Ветер
- Владимир Высоцкий – На острове необитаемом
- Triolets by Sara Teasdale
- Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes by William Shakespeare
- A Couple More Years by Shel Silverstein
- the_nomad039s_vision_ode_to_a_skylark_dressed_in_black.html
- Robert Burns: Ca’ The Yowes To The Knowes: Second Version
- Dirge of the Three Queens by William Shakespeare
- Owl by Sylvia Plath
- Scars on Paper by Marilyn Hacker
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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
