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:
- Cavern in Paradise by Rita Odessa Villaruel
- Looking Across The Fields And Watching The Birds Fly by Wallace Stevens
- Владимир Маяковский – Про это
- Ольга Берггольц – Майя
- forever blue by Steve Troyanovich
- Robert Burns: Braw Lads O’ Galla Water:
- Низами Гянджеви – Когда ее ароматом неслышно ветер повеет
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- All’s Well! by John Oxenham
- Solar Eclipse by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Британишский – Далекая скрипка
- Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H. poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: A New Psalm For The Chapel Of Kilmarnock: On the Thanksgiving-Day for His Majesty’s Recovery.
- Владимир Высоцкий – Надо с кем-то рассорить кого-то
- Book Fifth-Books by William Wordsworth
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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
