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:
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Indifference. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Francis II, King of Naples poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Ballad of East and West by Rudyard Kipling
- Ольга Берггольц – Озерный край
- A Prayer poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring by William Shakespeare
- Follow Me ‘ome by Rudyard Kipling
- Олег Бундур – Нарасхват
- Казалось, осталось недолго
- I see you moon by Raj Arumugam
- Владимир Набоков – Из мира уползли, и ноют на луне
- Jessie by Thomas Edward Brown
- Василий Тредиаковский – В сем озере бедные любовники
- Владимир Корнилов – Державинское
- Elemental Drifts. by Walt Whitman
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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
