for Gertrud Widmayer
I am a coal-truck
Carrying gold dust.
Someone threw some
Coal-dust upon
My gold-dust.
I am a coal-truck
In a gold mine.
Someone struck a coal vein
And piled me full in vain.
I am a coal-truck
Covered in subterranean dust.
Someone shovelled my soil
And found an ancient bone
All coiled.
I am a coal-truck
Waiting for the rain.
The sun is my rail
The night my shed.
I am a coal-truck
Rumbling all the way.
Wash me in the rain-storm
And fill me full of coke
Until I choke.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Федор Тютчев – Как ни тяжел последний час
- Robert Burns: Halloween: The following poem will, by many readers, be well enough understood; but for the sake of those who are unacquainted with the manners and traditions of the country where the scene is cast, notes are added to give some account of the principal charms and spells of that night, so big with prophecy to the peasantry in the west of Scotland. The passion of prying into futurity makes a striking part of the history of human nature in its rude state, in all ages and nations; and it may be some entertainment to a philosophic mind, if any such honour the author with a perusal, to see the remains of it among the more unenlightened in our own.-R.B.
- My Father was a Farmer: A Ballad by Robert Burns
- I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded poem – A. E. Housman
- The Meditation Of The Old Fisherman by William Butler Yeats
- Private Ground by Sylvia Plath
- English Poetry. Christina Georgina Rossetti. A Christmas Carol. Кристина Джорджина Россетти.
- Tube Station
- Blue-Butterfly Day by Robert Frost
- about emptiness… by Marina Cecilia Kohon
- Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes by William Shakespeare
- Wonderment by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Тексты для издательства “Сегодняшний лубок” (Плакаты)
- Love In Autumn by Sara Teasdale
- Friday’s Child by W H Auden
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
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).
