Poems about Poetry
Excerpt From The “Gertrude Stein” Collaborative Series
by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
butter in a jam jar ajar like a door knob still shiny maple over butter over buttermilk waffles brown as burnished gold not so yellow not so buttery an effect buttering up milkman postman both trucks stuck in mud ugly mud on face on arms neck knees legs butcher boots
but butter is grace is utterance is warm fire mother’s warm hands but for dad in a bunker
big summer bumper crop of honeycomb and languor like a bath lathering
ice cream in mouth in open chuckle but take the memory in float down
but button down the soapy memory she said button down the blue house and luggage walks and good fairground fun because the times are slipping down on knees like the old warring years
but for the buckeye butterflies over marigold flutter flutter aflutter
Titular
Copyright ©:
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
A few random poems:
- You Ask Me, Why, Tho’ Ill at Ease poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The village girl models for the artist, 1904 by Raj Arumugam
- To a Beloved Child by Patrick Pearse
- Winter Apples by Tatiana Gusarova, translated by Fledermaus
- Lines Inscribed in a Lady’s Pocket Almanack by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: Meg O’ The Mill : Another Version
- The Keys of Morning by Walter de la Mare
- Graydigger’s Home by William Stafford
- Владимир Высоцкий – Переворот в мозгах из края в край
- Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 4. by William Cowper
- Paradise Regained: The First Book poem – John Milton poems
- Neither Out Far Nor In Deep by Robert Frost
- Ок Мельникова – Всё будет
- Solid, Ironical, Rolling Orb. by Walt Whitman
- To Victory by Siegfried Sassoon
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
