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:
- In Memory of W. B. Yeats by W. H. Auden
- Vacant Lot With Pokeweed poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Камышева Ю. – На далёком полюсе, где метёт пурга
- Жан де Лафонтен – Предостережение богов Симониду
- Sleep by Russell Edson
- Fairytale by Nicole M Nugent
- Ок Мельникова – Подростковые драмы
- Uncle Sammy by Will McKendree Carleton
- Юнна Мориц – Ёжик резиновый
- Called Into Play poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Британишский – Как турмалин, что субстанцию сланца
- The Thorn by William Wordsworth
- Ancient Music poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Cloak, The Boat And The Shoes by William Butler Yeats
- Sunflowers by Martin Willitts Jr.
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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
