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 Gardener XXXVIII: My Love, Once upon a Time by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Heart Divided by Pierre Reverdy
- Say, What Is Honour?–‘Tis The Finest Sense by William Wordsworth
- GESTURES by Satish Verma
- Ashes of Soldiers. by Walt Whitman
- The Starlight Night poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- how did poetry begin? by Raj Arumugam
- from The Tenth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Michelle Obama Tribute by Susan King Saunders
- Annie Marshall the Foundling by William Topaz McGonagall
- Николай Заболоцкий – Генеральская дача
- Groupie poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
- Einstein Defining Special Relativity poem – A. Van Jordan poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Напоминание
- Kite by Vattacharja Chandan
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
