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:
- Flowers by Thomas Hood
- Robert Burns: Verses On Captain Grose: Written on an Envelope, enclosing a Letter to Him.
- Шекспир – Прекрасный облик в зеркале ты видишь – Сонет 3
- Oh Mother poem – Amy Haritha Suseel poems | Poems and Poetry
- Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages by T. S. Eliot
- To a Locomotive in Winter. by Walt Whitman
- The time has come for us to become madmen in your chain by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Epistle To My Brother George poem – John Keats poems
- The Beacon Fires
- Владимир Степанов – Тула-город мастеров
- Roads poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Глазков – Дремота обрела права
- Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication by Seamus Heaney
- Just A Dance by Tiffany M
- From Marinero en tierra by Rafael Alberti
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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
