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:
- The Heritage by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Почему нет помощи от Румынии (Главполитпросвет №327)
- Top Benefits of Wearing Peridot Birthstone
- Михаил Ломоносов – Молчите, струйки чисты
- A Recantation by Rudyard Kipling
- A Minuet Of Mozart’s by Sara Teasdale
- O Star of France. by Walt Whitman
- Night on the Convoy by Siegfried Sassoon
- Stop Looking For Broken Heart Poems and Quotes and Win Your Ex Back Instead!
- The Cross-Roads poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Mally’s Meek, Mally’s Sweet:
- What We Need Is Here by Wendell Berry
- Robert Burns: On A Swearing Coxcomb:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сорняков, когда созреют
- Николай Глазков – Раздумья
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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
