Bicycle Ride
by Pat Mullan
I sat on the cold handlebars
my thighs bone-tight to the metal
as you pushed me
Your breath spluttered
hot on my neck
like the engine in
your old Morris Minor
Up and up that brae
you pushed till you seemed
to stand still on the pedals
almost waiting to fall
Hailstones beat down
on my bare legs
till they were scourged red
but I don’t remember the pain
I only remember your strength
and your closeness.
We were never like that again.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Recall by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Wish to be Generous by Wendell Berry
- Жан де Лафонтен – Пьяница и Жена его
- The Candle Indoors poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Here Dead We Lie poem – A. E. Housman
- The Lights Of New York by Sara Teasdale
- Year’s End by Marilyn Hacker
- Sonnet 45: The other two, slight air and purging fire by William Shakespeare
- Николай Глазков – Быть хочешь постоянно пьяным
- How a Little Girl Sang by Vachel Lindsay
- Геннадий Айги – Дом в поле
- Sonet 57 by William Alexander
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Hymn to Spiritual Desire. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Highway to Happiness by Stacey Chillemi
- The Princess: A Medley: Our Enemies have Fall’n poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
