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:
- Robert Burns: To A Mountain Daisy: On turning down with the Plough, in April, 1786.
- The Battle of the Baltic by Thomas Campbell
- To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady’s Brother and Sister by Phillis Wheatley
- An Epitaph On Mr. Fishborne The Great London Benefactor, And His Executor by William Strode
- Key and Knife (Two Haiku) by Mike Yuan
- To The Small Celandine by William Wordsworth
- Низами Гянджеви – Расступился черный мускус
- Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending? poem – A. E. Housman
- Of Wit
- Online Lover by Rainbow Reed
- Camps of Green. by Walt Whitman
- Оливер Голдсмит – Песенка
- No! by Thomas Hood
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
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
- Ольга Берггольц – Мой дом
- Ольга Берггольц – Мне не поведать о моей утрате
- Ольга Берггольц – Марш оловянных солдатиков
- Ольга Берггольц – Майя
- Ольга Берггольц – Лучший город
- Ольга Берггольц – Ленинградская осень
- Ольга Берггольц – Ласточки над обрывом
- Ольга Берггольц – Кирову
- Ольга Берггольц – Какая тёмная зима
- Ольга Берггольц – Как на озёрном хуторе
- Ольга Берггольц – К сердцу Родины руку тянет
- Ольга Берггольц – Из “Писем с дороги”
- Ольга Берггольц – И вновь одна, совсем одна в дорогу
- Ольга Берггольц – Февральский дневник
- Ольга Берггольц – Два стихотворения дочерям
- Ольга Берггольц – Дорога на фронт
- Ольга Берггольц – Детскосельский парк
- Ольга Берггольц – Церковь “Дивная” в Угличе
- Ольга Берггольц – Борису Корнилову
- Ольга Берггольц – Беатриче (строгая любовь)
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
