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:
- In Our Time by Michael D Wentworth
- Ольга Берггольц – Письмо из Ленинграда
- Василий Курочкин – Счастливец
- She got her wings by Mahak Raithatha S
- Doors Of The Temple poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Robert Burns: The Banks O’ Doon: Third Version
- The Sun Of The First Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- Book Leaf by Shaunna Harper
- Why the Young Men Are So Ugly by Tony Hoagland
- Федор Сологуб – Собака седого короля
- Light by Tala Bar
- My Song by Rabindranath Tagore
- What Hidden Sweetness Is There by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. John by Thomas Carew
- Dreamers by Siegfried Sassoon
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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
