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:
- Омар Хайям – Ну, допустим, что будет тебе и почет
- Владимир Маяковский – В 12 часов по ночам
- You’re The Only One poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
- Rainbow by Ria De Torres
- Sassoon’s Public Statement Of Defiance by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Высоцкий – Заключительная песня Кэрролла
- Gold! by Thomas Hood
- Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending? poem – A. E. Housman
- Владимир Высоцкий – У Доски, где почётные граждане
- Константин Батюшков – Мои пенаты
- Василий Тредиаковский – Песенка любовна
- Sonnet LXIX by William Shakespeare
- “Why should I, from this long and losing strife ” poem – Alfred Austin
- Robert Burns: O For Ane An’ Twenty, Tam :
- Dedication To A Book Of Stories Selected From The Irish Novelists by William Butler Yeats
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
- The Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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
