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
- Sonnet LVIII by William Shakespeare
- The Revenge; A Ballad of the Fleet poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- In a Castle poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Childhood by Rainer Maria Rilke
- When I Met My Muse by William Stafford
- Song III: It Grew Up Without Heeding by William Morris
- Nestling by Mark R Slaughter
- Robert Burns: A Mother’s Lament For the Death of Her Son.:
- Inscription For A Moss-House In The Shrubbery At Weston by William Cowper
- Cut by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Гиппиус – Писать стихи
- Her Triumph by William Butler Yeats
- Light The Festive Candles
- The Lake Isle poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Scissors-Grinder by Vachel Lindsay
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.