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:
- Sepukku
- Валерий Брюсов – И. Туманьяну надпись на книге (Да будет праведно возмездие)
- Robert Burns: The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water: To the noble Duke of Athole.
- Николай Языков – Посвящение А. А. Воейковой «Песни короля Регнера»
- To Somebody Out There by Vashti Trisawati Abhidana
- Maudlin by Sylvia Plath
- Владислав Ходасевич – О, если б в этот час желанного покоя
- Speaking the Language of Deer by Martin Willitts Jr.
- Robert Burns: A Red, Red Rose: [Hear Red, Red Rose]
- Ольга Берггольц – Я так хочу, так верю, так люблю
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы живём в большом селе Большие Вилы
- Шекспир – С любовью связан жизненный мой путь – Сонет 92
- The Gardener LVII: I Plucked Your Flower by Rabindranath Tagore
- Wibble Wobble poem – Alexander E Musset poems | Poetry Monster
- Николай Заболоцкий – Обед
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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
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