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:
- Юлия Жадовская – Я все хочу расслушать
- Robert Burns: Will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary?:
- Chorus of Athenians poem – Alexander Pope
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Омар Хайям – О, если б, захватив с собой стихов диван
- acts_of_love.html
- Mafeking poem – Alfred Austin
- The Common Life by W H Auden
- English Poetry. Robert William Service. Dark Glasses. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
- I am only the house of your beloved by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Sestina: Altaforte poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Charity thou art a lie, by Stephen Crane
- Berck-Plage by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: Song Composed In August:
- Анатолий Жигулин – Гулко эхо от ранних шагов
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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
