Poems about Poetry
As with Recitation and The Loss of a Kuhi
by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
this thieving of love
tightrope against what it means –
to visit the past
who is good; who wrong?
which brittle, yellowing build?
of old, bluing tarpaulin?
uniform as points, squares, lined
instincts and numbers primed too
quiet eyes like dark opal
their squircle an open seat
under chestnut shade
as with basho on his mat
there he lays, small, crouched
under a low-lying cave
its long, empty lake
praetoria of ruins gone
fingers curled into his palm
unfurling, unclenched –
tired hope for newer days
Qarrtsiluni
Copyright ©:
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
A few random poems:
- Николай Заболоцкий – Битва с предками
- The Beginning of the End by Rixa White
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 07 by Torquato Tasso
- The First Part: Sonnet 4 – Fair is my yoke, though grievous be my pains, by William Drummond
- Николай Тихонов – Даль полевая, как при Калите
- I Chide Not At The Seasons poem – Alfred Austin
- Валерий Брюсов – К портрету Лермонтова
- Arms and the Man by Siegfried Sassoon
- As I Ponder’d in Silence. by Walt Whitman
- Milton (Alcaics) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Степанов – В лесу осиновом
- Олег Бундур – Время со Светой
- Омар Хайям – Будь все добро мое кирпич один, в кружало
- The Hermit Goes Up Attic by Maxine Kumin
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий, ты читал СНК наказ?.. (Главполитпросвет №292)
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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
