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:
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Молкнущий вечер во мгле
- Glory Of Women by Siegfried Sassoon
- Валерий Брюсов – К финскому народу
- Blue-Butterfly Day by Robert Frost
- The Lake Isle poem – Ezra Pound poems
- On The Sea poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Долой мешечников (РОСТА №525)
- Владимир Луговской – Курсантская венгерка
- Sea God and the wind rose by Vinko Kalinić
- Ghazal to Pera Belle by Serkan Engin
- Илона Грошева – Каждый год в себе несет воскресение
- A Ballad of Footmen poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Fragment of Song—“My Jean!” by Robert Burns
- Dirge For A Joker by Sylvia Plath
- Valgovinds Song In The Spring
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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
