May I never be afraid
especially of myself
but
Muhammed Ali are you telling
the truth?
Well you’re being true aren’t you and
you talk so wonderfully in your body
that protects you with physique of voice
raps within dance
May I never be afraid
rocked and quaked
the mantilla is lace
whose black is oak
But if I’m dark I’m strong
as my own darkness
my strength the universe
whose blackness is air
only starry
lace
But if I’m alive I’m strong
as life
Strong as the violets
in Marlon Brando’s fist
his dissemblance flourished into truth
She
took them
I’d take me too
I do
and my Ali I see you
a hard bright speck of me
the savage formalist
authentic deed of gossip
a kind body.
Copyright ©:
Alice Notley
A few random poems:
- Алексей Жемчужников – Привет весны
- Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman by William Wordsworth
- Федор Сологуб – Скупа Филис, но пыл мятежный
- Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, товарищи! От сбора продналога… (Главполитпросвет №284)
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 3 poem – Alexander Pope
- A Killing by Satish Verma
- Among The Narcissi by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: I’m O’er Young To Marry Yet:
- Day’s Rain Is Done poem – Alexander Pushkin
- On Going Unnoticed by Robert Frost
- Владимир Маяковский – Спросили раз меня: “Вы любите ли НЭП?”
- A Funeral Poem on the Death of C.E. by Phillis Wheatley
- Олег Бундур – Идем мы с дедом
- Юнна Мориц – Ручеек
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
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
