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:
- Clear, with Light, Variable Winds poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sir Hugh; Or The Jew’s Daughter poem – Andrew Lang poems
- In Between The Strophes
- Zunsheen In The Winter by William Barnes
- Юлиан Анисимов – Камнем сгрудилась комната
- Владимир Маяковский – Чем отличается Красная Армия от царской?.. (РОСТА №559)
- Алексей Плещеев – Как солнце блещет ярко
- The Mirror by Robert Creeley
- Владимир Гиляровский – Белоснежные туманы
- Remorse by Siegfried Sassoon
- Sonnet To Homer poem – John Keats poems
- Epitaphs Translated From Chiabrera by William Wordsworth
- Алексей Жемчужников – Зимнее чувство
- Наум Коржавин – Не верь, что ты поэта шире
- Grandmother’s Teaching poem – Alfred Austin
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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
