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:
- The River Has Its Memories by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Leaves Compared With Flowers by Robert Frost
- once_was_a_singer_for_god_remembering_nekia.html
- Галина Гампер – Я вгоняла содержанье
- Robert Burns: Bessy And Her Spinnin’ Wheel:
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Водовоз
- Be Not a War Poet by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Epitaph On H. Walmsley, Esq., by William Lisle Bowles
- Эмиль Верхарн – Вот лампа зажжена
- Robert Burns: Rantin’, Rovin’ Robin:
- The Sun Underfoot Among The Sundews poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Clever Stalk by Richard Schiffman
- Job by Nelly Sachs
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Children of My Own by Marie Starr
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
