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:
- Of Love and All by Raja Mannar
- In Hardwood Groves by Robert Frost
- Out over the Forth (Song) by Robert Burns
- Владимир Высоцкий – Всё было не так, как хотелось вначале
- The Nautical Why poem – Amy Nawrocki poems | Poems and Poetry
- Famine Song
- Youth And The Pilgrim by Sara Teasdale
- Аля Кудряшева – Трилогия перед годом (Цепочка ассоциаций)
- Владимир Маяковский – За 10 месяцев 1920 года… (РОСТА №748)
- Diving Wreck
- Владимир Костров – 1380 год
- Epitaph by Samuel Coleridge
- Михаил Ломоносов – День коронования Великия государыни императрицы Елисаветы Петровны
- Robert Burns: News, Lassies, News:
- The Flower-School by Rabindranath Tagore
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
- love.html
- lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
- libation.html
- least_in_a_list.html
- interpret_the_light.html
- innocence.html
- in_the_stone_i_rooted.html
- in_between_the_strophes.html
- human_joys.html
- human_charms.html
- he_who_creates_re_creates_himself.html
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- hai_kou.html
- greek_light.html
- greece.html
- golden_eangle.html
- gesture_theory_a_villanelle.html
- gem_immortality.html
- fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
- first_verse.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
