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
- Юлиан Анисимов – Из Рильке
- Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson by Robert Burns
- Sailing To Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Пахали сохой — запашем трактором (Главполитпросвет №42)
- Fuck Israel
- Николай Языков – Альпийская песня
- Аля Кудряшева – Ну что я могу ответить
- Crossing the Frontier
- Владимир Маяковский – Россия – страна земледельческая… (РОСТА №874)
- Be’mi’ster by William Barnes
- Quies poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Robert Burns: To Miss Logan, With Beattie’s Poems, For A New-Year’s Gift, Jan. 1, 1787:
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Пируя праздник возвращенья
- So tired by Tanisha Avarsekar
- The Song of the Cities 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.