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:
- Ярослав Смеляков – Хорошая девочка Лида
- Ольга Ермолаева – Ты где летал, мой падающий с Фанских гор
- Dreadful by Shel Silverstein
- Epigram—Commissary Goldie’s Brains by Robert Burns
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 42. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- Down on the Shore by William Allingham
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Stop Looking For Broken Heart Poems and Quotes and Win Your Ex Back Instead!
- A Photograph on the Desk by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Anecdote Of Canna by Wallace Stevens
- Orlando Furioso Canto 2 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Владимир Маяковский – Протекция
- Song—Address to the Woodlark by Robert Burns
- Oh Who Is That Young Sinner poem – A. E. Housman
- THE DANGERS OF AN HONEST MAN IN MUCH COMPANY by Abraham Cowley
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
- Sonnet I
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
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
