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:
- A Walk by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Offerings. by Walt Whitman
- The Defeat of Youth poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- The Messiah : A Sacred Eclogue poem – Alexander Pope
- O Wondrous Ecstatic Eyes – Chashmay Mastay poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Иван Киуру – От северной половины земного шара
- Autumn by Walter Savage Landor
- Карл Сэндберг – Молитва стали
- Barnfloor and Winepress poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Twenty-Four Hokku On A Modern Theme poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Indifference. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Ольга Седакова – Вьюга
- Алишер Навои – Осрамился я
- Impromtu On Ogareva poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be by Vachel Lindsay
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
- Dickinson And The Alabaster Gogyohka
- Dawned Again
- Create
- Conference Swan Beauty
- Colors And Sounds
- Children039s Eyes
- Audience With A Poet Written December 13 1976 For Robert E Hayden Ph D
- Athens Stone Of Sapphire Of Ground The Ring
- As With Recitation And The Loss Of A Kuhi
- Antediluvian Kural On Twitter
- Alexander
- Acts Of Love
- A Single Man
- A Poet039s Privilege
- A Poem
- A Dialogue
- A City One Wish
- A Choka Is A Littoral Drift
- Gazebo
- All Days Seem Same
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
