there was a time when we ate
the swollen buds of linden trees
sticky and sweet
the sap of cherry trees, more delicious
than berries
gnawed small
green apples, secretly, with black bread
spat out the pits
of handfuls
of red hawthorn berries
sucked icicles
it was that sort of time
End of the poem
15 random poems
- In Praise Of Limestone by W H Auden
- Calling The Spirits
- Walls at Drogheda by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Nanny’s New Abode by William Barnes
- Goliath Of Gath by Phillis Wheatley
- Robert Burns: To The Weavers Gin Ye Go:
- Italy
- Ash Wednesday by T. S. Eliot
- A Lover’s Complaint by William Shakespeare
- Twelve Years by Paul Celan
- Projector by Shreekumar Varma
- Upon Her Eyes by Robert Herrick
- “The Curtains Now Are Drawn” by Thomas Hardy
- Gethsemane by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: My Bonie Bell:
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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).
