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:
- Федор Сваровский – Путешественники во времени 9
- Sonnet LX by William Shakespeare
- Shelley’s Death poem – Alfred Austin
- A Scot To Jeanne D’Arc poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Quatrain 1693 (Farsi with English Translation) by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 15 из 15
- Lost and Found by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Point Shirley by Sylvia Plath
- My Miracle Valentine by Tirtha Raj Baral (Sanu Punatare)
- The Voice poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
- Константин Батюшков – Мщение
- Lover’s Gifts XLVII: The Road Is by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Moralists by Yvor Winters
- A Grammarian’s Funeral by Robert Browning
- Sonnet CLI by William Shakespeare
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
- The Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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
