No shoes and a glossy
red helmet, I rode
on the back of my dad’s
Harley at seven years old.
Before the divorce.
Before the new apartment.
Before the new marriage.
Before the apple tree.
Before the ceramics in the garbage.
Before the dog’s chain.
Before the koi were all eaten
by the crane. Before the road
between us, there was the road
beneath us, and I was just
big enough not to let go:
Henno Road, creek just below,
rough wind, chicken legs,
and I never knew survival
was like that. If you live,
you look back and beg
for it again, the hazardous
bliss before you know
what you would miss.
Copyright ©:
2015 Ada Limón
A few random poems:
- Аля Кудряшева – Это просто слишком длинная осень
- The Street Sounds to the Soldiers’ Tread poem – A. E. Housman
- Robert Burns: Elegy On The Year 1788:
- Farewell to Hsin Chien at Hibiscus Pavilion by Wang Wei
- O Singer in Brown by Mary Gilmore
- On Death poem – John Keats poems
- A Dogs Love Is a Never Ending Game by Stacey Chillemi
- Even if I don’t hear your voice, I know by Vinko Kalinic
- un-chien-andalou-an-andalusian-dog.html
- Love is the Water of Life by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Points And Lines poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Вперед, комсомольцы
- Quality Customer Service – How to Measure Customer Satisfaction
- To Virgil poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Маленькой Женни
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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
