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:
- Epitaph on John Busby, Esq., Tinwald Downs by Robert Burns
- Анатолий Жигулин – Мне помнится рудник Бутугычаг
- Юнна Мориц – Это вьюги хрустящий калач
- A Woman’s Fancy by Thomas Hardy
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ! Фронту помог ты… (РОСТА №444)
- Sonnet: On seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams weep at a tale of distress by William Wordsworth
- The Hymn poem – John Milton poems
- Forty Years Later by Martin Willitts, Jr
- Владимир Вишневский – Стада уж боле не пасутся мирно
- Sestina: Altaforte poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Waiting For The Beloved — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Hock-cart, or Harvest Home by Robert Herrick
- Stop Looking For Broken Heart Poems and Quotes and Win Your Ex Back Instead!
- Michaelangelo by Vachel Lindsay
- In David’s “Child’s Garden Of Verses” by Sara Teasdale
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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
