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:
- Song Of Four Faries poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Британишский – В чащобах памяти кого не встретишь вдруг
- A Child Of God Longing To See Him Beloved by William Cowper
- Владимир Британишский – Двуединство души
- Fragment. Where’s The Poet? poem – John Keats poems
- Омар Хайям – О, не растите дерево печали
- The Pond poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Master of the Dance by Vachel Lindsay
- One Night, The Fukien Robbers poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
- Endymion: Book III poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Посмотрим сами, покажем им
- Not marble nor the guilded monuments (Sonnet 55) by William Shakespeare
- Юлий Даниэль – Дом
- A Pen Wrote The Funeral by Stevens Cadet
- Шекспир – Любовь – не кукла жалкая в руках – Сонет 116
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
- love.html
- lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
- libation.html
- least_in_a_list.html
- interpret_the_light.html
- innocence.html
- in_the_stone_i_rooted.html
- in_between_the_strophes.html
- human_joys.html
- human_charms.html
- he_who_creates_re_creates_himself.html
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- hai_kou.html
- greek_light.html
- greece.html
- golden_eangle.html
- gesture_theory_a_villanelle.html
- gem_immortality.html
- fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
- first_verse.html
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
