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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Гевлок Вильсон
- Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – Селькор
- Ольга Ермолаева – Всю эту печаль невозможно вместить целиком
- Soul Receives From Soul by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мог бы быть я при тёще, при тесте
- Владимир Маяковский – Первый из пяти
- Eight O’Clock by Sara Teasdale
- Intrigued with Evening by Jelaluddin Rumi
- Ольга Высотская стихи: лучшие стихотворения для детей Высотской – Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Советский Союз, намотай на ус – кто Юз
- Crowdie ever mair (Song) by Robert Burns
- Иван Мятлев – Розы
- To a Sky-Lark by William Wordsworth
- Open sky by Shailendra Chauhan
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
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
