Bearhug
by Michael Ondaatje
Griffin calls to come and kiss him goodnight
I yell ok. Finish something I’m doing,
then something else, walk slowly round
the corner to my son’s room.
He is standing arms outstretched
waiting for a bearhug. Grinning.
Why do I give my emotion an animal’s name,
give it that dark squeeze of death?
This is the hug which collects
all his small bones and his warm neck against me.
The thin tough body under the pyjamas
locks to me like a magnet of blood.
How long was he standing there
like that, before I came?
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Алишер Навои – Словно зеркало, сияет лик твой
- The Meditation Of The Old Fisherman by William Butler Yeats
- Sonnet CLIII by William Shakespeare
- Hesperus The Bringer by Sappho
- Night by Ruth Padel
- The Happy Days When I Wer Young by William Barnes
- Four Corners by Michelle Bonczek Evory
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, шахтер! В опасности трудовая республика твоя! (Агитплакаты)
- Омар Хайям – О, если б, захватив с собой стихов диван
- The Gardener XIII: I Asked Nothing by Rabindranath Tagore
- Гавриил Державин – Поминки
- A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall by Robert Herrick
- Invern poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Корнилов – Неподвижность
- And Still to USA they get! by Tom Mukasa
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.