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:
- Олег Сердобольский – Во дворе
- Sharing Eve’s Apple poem – John Keats poems
- zen: a very short history by Raj Arumugam
- Summer poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- There is a Candle in your Heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Георгий Иванов – Теперь, когда быстрее лавы
- Олег Бундур – Я не плачу
- Written at Stonehenge by Thomas Warton
- Юлия Друнина – Забытая тетрадь, Истертые листы
- City of Ships. by Walt Whitman
- Endymion: Book II poem – John Keats poems
- Robert Burns: To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough:
- Sonnet 88: When thou shalt be disposed to set me light by William Shakespeare
- The Sound Of Music -a Ghazal by Umamaheswari Anandane
- Epitaph On An Infant. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
