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:
- Untitled XIV by Yunus Emre
- Adolescence by P. K. Page
- Низами Гянджеви – Расступился черный мускус
- Astrophel and Stella VII: WhenNature Made her Chief Work by Sir Philip Sidney
- Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is by William Shakespeare
- Silvia by William Shakespeare
- Sweet Colonnade by Vasil Slavov
- A Moment Of Happiness by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Masters
- Robert Burns Country: Ronalds Of The Bennals, The:
- Couplets on Wit poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Old well by Yosa Buson
- The River Has Its Memories by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Homing by Satish Verma
- Владимир Степанов – Угадай-ка, это кто?
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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
