by Albert Russo
when you’re in a daze
not sure whether you’re awake
or still dreaming
you will yourself
from the farthest memories
to unfurl your life
then, overwhelmed
you catch yourself embracing
every single detail
your first steps as a child
yesterday’s road accident
your grandfather’s smile
it’s all helter-skelter
yet, so truelike, so vivid
so physical
you ask yourself
is this some kind of ESP
a trick from above?
the scroll of your own history
as if Jack Kerouac
were writing about you
nothing escapes your mind
the pain, the happy moments
your folks on a dance floor
remember that song?
swimming in Lake Tanganyika
the wailing refugees
spring in New York
chopped chicken liver on rye
you’re still a freshman
look at your hands
yes, the years have passed
but your heart hasn’t aged
indeed, you insist
as if to defy time
I am all those things
the past
the present
and the future
Copyright ©:
Albert Russo
A few random poems:
- Robert Burns: The Banks Of Nith:
- Lines to an Old Sweetheart by Robert Burns
- Шарль Бодлер – Жажда небытия
- Along The Sun-Drenched Roadside by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Ион (перевод)
- The Hyaenas by Rudyard Kipling
- Let’s pray the divine by Nikunj Sharma
- Landscape by Paul Celan
- Untimely Leave by Rabindranath Tagore
- This Dog by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Emigrant
- Frozen Heart 2
- Владимир Луговской – Мертвый хватает живого
- Sonnet 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought by William Shakespeare
- On His Eightieth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor
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
- Leaving and Leaving You by Sophie Hannah
- If It Were Beginning by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
- Hypatia by Stanley Wilkin
- Homosexuality by Spencer Reece
- Highway to Happiness by Stacey Chillemi
- High school crush……lonesome awaits by Stephen Allen
- God’s Abdication by Snowdon King
- Family by Stacey Chillemi
- Everything He Did, He Did In Jest by stanley wilkin
- Entropy by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
- Disconnect by Snowdon King
- Crazy Insane by Stephen Sweitzer
- By the Dusk – Ao Entardecer by Soaroir de Campos
- By Garpal Stream by Stanley Wilkin
- Buddha’s Laugh by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
- Beautiful Moroccan by Stanley Wilkin
- Ambrosia by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
- Alternate Destination by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
- Adaptation by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
- A Veterans Memories Breeze By In the Wind by Stacey Chillemi
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
