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:
- Sonnet 85: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still by William Shakespeare
- Иван Мятлев – День рождения
- Sonnet X. To One Who Has Been Long In City Pent poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Сердитый дядя
- Keeping the Dawn by Shaunna Harper
- Sonnet CLII by William Shakespeare
- Lover’s Gifts XLIV: Where Is Heaven by Rabindranath Tagore
- Davideis Sacred Poem Troubles David Excerpt
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 05 by Torquato Tasso
- My impure god and I by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- Fire, Famine, And Slaughter : A War Eclogue by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- To George Felton Mathew poem – John Keats poems
- To Mrs. M. B. On Her Birthday poem – Alexander Pope
- Gentle Heart, Indulge Thy Dreaming by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Огюст Барбье – Тициан
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 I
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
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
