Down in the valley
by Marcin Malek
There is a valley
between the Ballina and Sligo
where birds and humans
are fading with delight
There is a valley
where mist
is composed of the last breaths
of those who dear
to enter its gates
Christ himself
walks along its sharp ridges
to stroke with a wounded hand
heathers fur
and rocks of the glen
Those who have fallen
into its trap
acquired a knowledge
of the dimension of time
A lot like in Newgrange
when the light
meets the nail hole
only for a few gasps
Then – and then only
seven steps is enough
valley will release
every wondering soul
as sundew stray young
But tomorrow – again
between the Ballina and Sligo
people and gulls from the shore
will glow in the eyes of unknown
as self-confident
refugees from the beyond
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Burnt-Out Spa by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: My Nanie, O:
- Places and Men by William Allingham
- Валерий Брюсов – Голос иных миров
- dreams the wind by Steve Troyanovich
- Loves Blindness
- O Man by Pawan Kumar
- Walls at Drogheda by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Николай Некрасов – Весна
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Вакханки (перевод)
- Taking Leave of a Friend poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
- The Land Of Happy by Shel Silverstein
- Drowning. Not Waving by P.J.Reed
- How Solemn as One by One. by Walt Whitman
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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).
