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:
- Ring Of Grass by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Высоцкий – Иноходец
- Олег Бундур – Родня
- Низами Гянджеви – Хмельное счастье мое очнется
- YOU ARE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY by Steve Troyanovich
- Юлия Друнина – Я курила недолго, давно, на войне
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Смерть коня-пахаря
- Sonnet # 19 by Luis A. Estable
- Иван Крылов – Ода, выбранная из псалма 14-го
- Юлия Друнина – Бинты
- Robert Burns: To A Louse: On Seeing One On A Lady’s Bonnet, At Church
- In Memory Of Alfred Pollexfen by William Butler Yeats
- I hear the roar of a Harley… by River Urke
- My Father’s Hats by Mark Irwin
- Lodged by Robert Frost
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
- The Epic Menageries by MB Moshe
- The Cup of Life by Mike Yuan
- The Colored Balloon by Mike Yuan
- The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje
- State Fair Time by Michael S Wilson
- Speaking To You (From Rock Bottom) by Michael Ondaatje
- Soulmating by Mike Yuan
- Since That Summer by Mike Yuan
- Searching by Mike Yuan
- Scotland by MB Moshe
- Ruined World by Michael Yuan
- Ready for Retirement by Mike Yuan
- Promise Ya by Miraj Patel
- Picking Cherries by Mike Yuan
- Outset by Mike Yuan
- Obdurant men, the worst of the abstinant by Miles
- Notes For The Legend Of Salad Woman by Michael Ondaatje
- Not even a child by Miles
- Nailing by Mike Yuan
- My Ink by Mike Yuan
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
