by Alden Nowlan
Not every wino is a Holy Man.
Oh, but some of them are.
I love those who’ve learned
to sit comfortably
for long periods with their hams
pressed against their calves,
outdoors,
with a wall for a back-rest,
contentedly saying nothing.
These move about only when
necessary,
on foot, and almost always
in pairs.
I think of them as oblates.
Christ’s blood is in their veins
or they thirst for it.
They have looked into the eyes
of God,
unprotected by smoked glass.
A few random poems:
- Moonrise poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Наум Коржавин – Мне без тебя так трудно жить
- Владимир Набоков – Ты многого, слишком ты многого хочешь
- Ольга Седакова – Успение
- A Zong by William Barnes
- Юрий Коринец – Тишина
- Olney Hymn 23: Pleading For And With Youth by William Cowper
- Zunsheen In The Winter by William Barnes
- Олег Бундур – Заботливая бабушка
- A Tombless Epitaph by Samuel Coleridge
- Because I Cannot Sleep by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- When I Was Young the Silk poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- The Cleaving by Samuel Hazo
- For Roman Polanski by Nijole Miliauskaite
- A Toccata Of Galuppi’s by Robert Browning
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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
