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 Набоков – Поэт
- Weak Is The Will Of Man, His Judgement Blind by William Wordsworth
- One Sweet White Light
- Beachy Blues poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry
- Dedication To Leigh Hunt, Esq. poem – John Keats poems
- Robert Burns: Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars: The Menagerie
- Athens Stone Of Sapphire Of Ground The Ring
- My Heart Goes Out by Stevie Smith
- A Bay In Anglesey poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Baby’s Way by Rabindranath Tagore
- Time’s Defence poem – Alfred Austin
- Fancy In Nubibus, Or The Poet In The Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Beguiling by Roger McGough
- Михаил Лермонтов – В рядах стояли безмолвной толпой
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Звездочет
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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
