Application For A Driving License
by Michael Ondaatje
Two birds loved
in a flurry of red feathers
like a burst cottonball,
continuing while I drove over them.
I am a good driver, nothing shocks me.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Time by Vladimir Marku
- Interlude: Songs Out Of Sorrow by Sara Teasdale
- What would I do without this world by Samuel Beckett
- Madonna of the Evening Flowers poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sex Without Love by Sharon Olds
- The Magi by William Butler Yeats
- The Bridge by Russell Edson
- Robert Burns: Inscription: Written on the blank leaf of a copy of the last edition of my poems, presented to the Lady whom, in so many fictitious reveries of passion, but with the most ardent sentiments of real friendship, I have so often sung under the name of-“Chloris.”
- Владимир Маяковский – Радоваться рано
- Robert Burns: Wha Is That At My Bower-Door:
- Robert Burns: Esteem For Chloris:
- On Colley Cibber poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- To Dorothy by Marvin Bell
- Владимир Британишский – Горы, горы – горизонты
- Illusions by Mark R Slaughter
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943) is a renowned Canadian author and poet. He is best known for his novel “The English Patient,” which won the Booker Prize and was later adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. Ondaatje’s works often explore themes of identity, memory, and the impact of war. He has received numerous accolades for his contributions to literature and is considered a significant figure in contemporary Canadian literature.