A Faded Postcard is a Tanka Daydream
by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
but of the firewalker
of his frame, a rush of flame
look at both faces, closed eyes
this, what you were born into
to grasp, that expectation
a forward hesitation –
to love only once
to endure, outlast these worlds
a lowing, literal love
not the bitter deathsong ends
not the judging eyes
a milk bath before
fresh plate of malai kofta
look at the firewalker –
dusted feet and flake, embers
as windblown, the water oak
next to the winged spindle tree
Pirene’s Fountain
Copyright ©:
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
A few random poems:
- Bistro Memories by P.J.Reed
- Омар Хайям – Что меня ожидает, неведомо мне
- Women’s Harvest Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Lover’s Gifts VIII: There Is Room for You by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ольга Берггольц – Пахнет соснами, гарью, тленьем
- English Poetry. Henry Livingston. To the Memory of Sarah Livingston. Генри Ливингстон.
- The Seven Sages by William Butler Yeats
- The Past is the Present by Marianne Moore
- Нина Воронель – Суета
- Федор Сологуб – Святых имен твоих не знаю
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Не касайся моих чертежей
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- High School Crush by Roberto Cocina
- To the Author of a Poem Entitled Succession poem – Alexander Pope
- Out of the Rolling Ocean, the Crowd. by Walt Whitman
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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
