We have done what we wanted.
We have discarded dreams, preferring the heavy industry
of each other, and we have welcomed grief
and called ruin the impossible habit to break.
And now we are here.
The dinner is ready and we cannot eat.
The meat sits in the white lake of its dish.
The wine waits.
Coming to this
has its rewards: nothing is promised, nothing is taken away.
We have no heart or saving grace,
no place to go, no reason to remain.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Detached Living by P.J.Reed
- Алишер Навои – Над головой моею осенних дней листопад
- Николай Карамзин – К Алине на смерть ее супруга
- Homer’s Seeing-Eye Dog by William Matthews
- A Pretty Woman by Robert Browning
- Extinguish Thou My Eyes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Robert Burns: On John Bushby, Esq., Tinwald Downs:
- The Plunge poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Mr. W. Cruikshank:
- Illusions by Mark R Slaughter
- Lead Soldiers poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Что такое II Интернационал?.. (РОСТА №133)
- Elephant Dormitory by Russell Edson
- Владимир Маяковский – Столп
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 04 – part 01 by Torquato Tasso
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).
