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:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Попугая
- Шекспир – Прекрасный облик в зеркале ты видишь – Сонет 3
- Алексей Жемчужников – Письмо к юноше о ничтожности
- Black Pine Tree In An Orange Light by Sylvia Plath
- In A Station Of The Metro poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Зинаида Александрова – Подснежник
- Ulysses poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Oh, Is It Love? poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Гумилев – Никогда не сделаю я так
- Lesbos by Sylvia Plath
- Coming To This by Mark Strand
- Николай Языков – В. А. Елагину (Светло блестит на глади неба ясной)
- The Commitment by Rob Leatherman Sr.
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Обвинение
- Ольга Берггольц – Синеглазый мальчик, синеглазый
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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
