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:
- Extempore Reply to an Invitation by Robert Burns
- Weary not of us, for we are very beautiful by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Robert Burns: The Bonie Moor-Hen:
- The Gardener XLIII: No, My Friends by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Decay Of A People by William Gilmore Simms
- Lover’s Gifts XVIII: Your Days by Rabindranath Tagore
- Scots Prologue for Mr. Sutherland by Robert Burns
- Зинаида Александрова – Шарик
- The Bachelor by William Barnes
- Disingenuousness by Mark R Slaughter
- The Scissors-Grinder by Vachel Lindsay
- Answers by Mark Strand
- On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank poem – A. E. Housman
- Bathing In The River
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты хочешь освободиться от тяжести войны?.. (РОСТА №523)
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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
