Beyond the dark cartoons
Are darker spaces where
Small cloudy nests of stars
Seem to float on air.
These have no proper names:
Men out alone at night
Never look up at them
For guidance or delight,
For such evasive dust
Can make so little clear:
Much less is known than not,
More far than near.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Road That Runs Beside The River by Thomas Lux
- Николай Языков – Элегии (Скажи: когда)
- Crossing the Frontier
- Ольга Берггольц – Украина
- THE IRISH GUARDS by Rudyard Kipling
- Ballade Of Autumn poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Стефан Малларме – Подавленное тучей
- Hitler, a poem about Hitler
- Self-Care for Creative Artists: 10 Reasons To Care About It
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о конькобежце на короткие дистанции, которого заставили бежать на длинную
- Mates
- The Bridge by Russell Edson
- A Consolation to Cuckholds by William Wycherley poems
- An Address to Shakespeare by William Topaz McGonagall
- The Song of the Sons by Rudyard Kipling
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).
Philip Arthur Larkin (1922-1985), Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Cavalier of the Order of the Companions of Honour, was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.