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:
- Гавриил Державин – Поминки
- Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor
- Peace by Patrick Kavanagh
- Валерий Брюсов – И он взглянул, и ты уснула, и он ушел, и умер день
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 99. ’Twas One of Those Dreams. Томас Мур.
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот о помощи голодающим отчет (Главполитпросвет №367)
- The useless counsellor by Ross D Tyler
- The Pleasures Of Friendship by Stevie Smith
- I’ve Been Working So Hard by Shel Silverstein
- Валерий Брюсов – К Бальмонту (Погасни, исчезни)
- Hokku Poems in Four Seasons by Yosa Buson
- An Address to the New Tay Bridge by William Topaz McGonagall
- Владимир Британишский – Мы топор и лопату кладем про запас
- Come Skating by Shel Silverstein
- An Ode, On Reading Mr. Richardson’s History Of Sir Charles Grandison by William Cowper
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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
