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:
- Otho The Great – Act III poem – John Keats poems
- These, I, Singing in Spring. by Walt Whitman
- Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour. by Walt Whitman
- Гавриил Державин – Анакреоново удовольствие
- Владимир Гиляровский – Нива
- The Melancholy of Birth
- Шекспир – Проснись, любовь – Сонет 56
- Нина Воронель – Не слишком ли ты многого
- To an Intra-mural Rat by Marianne Moore
- Immortal Indian Legend by Vasishta Sharma Gudi
- The Best Time Of The Day by Raymond Carver
- Константин Батюшков – Мечта
- Олег Григорьев – Тонет муха в сладости
- The Ring of Stars by Robert Desnos
- Алишер Навои – Стихотворные жемчужины
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
- The Unpromised Land, Montgomery, Alabama poem – Andrew Hudgins poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sounds of your love poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sexual eyes poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Satisfaction of my eyes poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Praying Drunk poem – Andrew Hudgins poems | Poems and Poetry
- Medicine to my brain poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In The Well poem – Andrew Hudgins poems | Poems and Poetry
- Hawk poem – Andrew Demcak poems | Poems and Poetry
- French kiss to knickers poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Beachy Blues poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry
- Words You Said poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Winter Twilight poem – Angelina Weld Grimke poems | Poems and Poetry
- When The Green Lies Over The Earth poem – Angelina Weld Grimke poems | Poems and Poetry
- Universe poem – Aminu Ola Rasaq poems | Poems and Poetry
- Trees poem – Angelina Weld Grimke poems | Poems and Poetry
- There is but there is not poem – Amy Haritha Suseel poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Voice poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
- THE ROAD OF ANGEL poem – kapardeli eftichia poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Nautical Why poem – Amy Nawrocki poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Final Poem poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
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
