For The Moment
by Pierre Reverdy
Life is simple and gay
The bright sun rings with a quiet sound
The sound of the bells has quieted
down
This morning the light hits it all
The footlights of my head are lit again
And the room I live in is finally bright
Just one beam is enough
Just one burst of laughter
My joy that shakes the house
Restrains those wanting to die
By the notes of its song
I sing off-key
Ah it’s funny
My mouth open to every breeze
Spews mad notes everywhere
That emerge I don’t know how
To fly toward other ears
Listen I’m not crazy
I laugh at the bottom of the stairs
Before the wide-open door
In the sunlight scattered
On the wall among green vines
And my arms are held out toward you
It’s today I love you
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Burnt Child by W. S. Merwin
- Our March by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Written Before Re-Reading King Lear poem – John Keats poems
- Priorities of Life and Death
- Lord when the wise men came from farr by Sidney Godolphin
- Pañuelos de La Alhambra by Mara Romero Torres
- Николай Карамзин – Эпитафия (Он жил в сем мире для того)
- Владимир Маяковский – В начале настоящего года у нас было 3833 здоровых паровоза… (РОСТА №776)
- Владимир Маяковский – Общее руководство для начинающих подхалим
- Hobbinol; or The Rural Games – Canto 3 by William Somervile
- Fanny’s Be’th-Day by William Barnes
- libation.html
- This Aloneness by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- 1991-I by Wendell Berry
- Falling Action by Ruth Madievsky
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).
