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:
- Стефан Малларме – Звенящий зимний день
- Return Of The Heroes by Siegfried Sassoon
- When I Came Last to Ludlow poem – A. E. Housman
- He Tells Of A Valley Full Of Lovers by William Butler Yeats
- Омар Хайям – Даже с самой прекрасной из милых подруг
- Lorelei by Sylvia Plath
- Who Learns My Lesson Complete? by Walt Whitman
- Николай Языков – Подражание псалму XIV
- I Want, I Want by Sylvia Plath
- Sonet 53 by William Alexander
- Владимир Ладыженский – Христос Воскрес, скворцы поют
- Ballade Of Blind Love poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Ок Мельникова – Тоской тома йорка
- Good Hours by Robert Frost
- Bothwell Castle by William Wordsworth
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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
