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:
- Аля Кудряшева – В этом городе птичий полет шелестит быстролистыми кленами
- Ash-Boughs poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Sonnet Xiv
- Fancy Dress by Siegfried Sassoon
- Robert Burns: Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry: Requesting a Favour
- Song—Farewell to the Banks of Ayr by Robert Burns
- Devonshire Street W.1 poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Виталий Бакалдин – Я не рос среди берез
- My prayers must meet a brazen heaven poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Вероника Тушнова – Молчание
- Afraid of rabbit HOLE by Neelam Sinha
- Николай Карамзин – К Лиле
- Behind a Wall poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Abd el-Hadi Fights a Superpower by Taha Muhammad Ali
- Storm and Sunlight by Siegfried Sassoon
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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
