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:
- The Prayer of Miriam Cohen by Rudyard Kipling
- Валерий Брюсов – Дождь перед ночью
- A Ballad (Thesis for a Doctor’s Degree) poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Interlude: Songs Out Of Sorrow by Sara Teasdale
- Watching the Bird Watcher by Richard Schiffman
- Palanquin Bearers by Sarojini Naidu
- I’ve Been Working So Hard by Shel Silverstein
- Николай Рубцов – Воробей
- Orlando Furioso Canto 6 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Михаил Ломоносов – На Сарское село августа 24 дня 1764 года
- Dawn by Rupert Brooke
- Жан де Лафонтен – Ссора Собак с Кошками и Кошек с Мышами
- Triolets by Sara Teasdale
- Sonnet: To Time by Sylvia Plath
- Вероника Тушнова – Я стою у открытой двери
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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
