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
- “Avaunt All Specious Pliancy Of Mind” by William Wordsworth
- Heart of God by Vachel Lindsay
- Depression Before Spring by Wallace Stevens
- The Last Rhyme of True Thomas by Rudyard Kipling
- Юлия Друнина – А всё равно
- Everybody’s Makin’ It Big But Me by Shel Silverstein
- A Prayer to All the Dead among Mine Own People by Vachel Lindsay
- Moonrise poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Some One by Walter de la Mare
- Dedication poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Sound And Sense poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- So I Said I Am Ezra poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- At Tynemouth Priory by William Lisle Bowles
- Eve by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Вани перед студентами
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