A Certain Kind of Holy Men

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.

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A few random poems:

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 

• The Exeter Road poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• The End poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• The Cyclists poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• The Cross-Roads poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• The Crescent Moon poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• The Coal Picker poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• The Coal Picker poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• The Captured Goddess poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• The Bungler poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• The Boston Athenaeum poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• The Bombardment poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• The Blue Scarf poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• The Basket poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• The Allies poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• The Allies poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H. poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• Sword Blades and Poppy Seed poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell
• Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Lowell

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

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.

 

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