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
- Self-Portrait poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Николай Языков – Виленскому (Не робко пей, товарищ мой)
- John Barleycorn: A Ballad by Robert Burns
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “The Odes of Anacreon”. Ode 66. Томас Мур.
- Sonnet 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent by William Shakespeare
- My Spouse Nancy by Robert Burns
- Pollination by Pamela L. Laskin
- A Wren’s Nest by William Wordsworth
- Федор Сологуб – Я часть загадки разгадал
- In a Minor Key poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling
- The Mystery by Sara Teasdale
- Mark Twain and Joan of Arc by Vachel Lindsay
- The house where I was born (06) by Yves Bonnefoy
- Coole Park, 1929 by William Butler Yeats
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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.