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:
- When I read the Book. by Walt Whitman
- Федор Тютчев – Каким венком нам увенчать
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не возьмут и невзгоды в крутой оборот…
- Love and Folly by William Cullen Bryant
- Василий Жуковский – На первое отречение от престола Бонапарте
- Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain by William Shakespeare
- Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year by Raymond Carver
- Владимир Маяковский – Строители коммуны (РОСТА)
- I a soul by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- AWAY FROM HOME by Satish Verma
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 5 из 15
- Николай Карамзин – Стихи с поднесением выписок
- Федор Тютчев – 23 Fevrier 1861
- Coal-Truck by T. Wignesan
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка ни про что, или Что случилось в Африке
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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
