From Another Sky
by Pierre Reverdy
What shall become of me
I feel myself dying
Help me
Ah Paris . . . the Pont Neuf
I know this town
Brief pleasures
Brief sorrows
My life
Is it really worth mentioning
Anyone could say the same
And how else to pass the time
I dream of another landscape
A forgotten friend reveals his features
Region of shadows
And pale skies
Native country that returns to me every morning
The journey was a long one
I lost some feathers on the way
And my illusions fell one by one
Still I was then in the midst of springtime
Hardly more than a child
I kept moving on
A clamorous train conveyed me
Little by little I forgot nature
Then the railway station was upon us
We changed cars
And on the station platform no one was waiting
The skeletal dead city
Raises its blast furnaces over there
What shall become of me
Some one touches my forehead with a
fantastic shadow
A hand
But what I thought I saw is only train smoke
I am alone
Yes all alone
No one has come to take my hand
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Touchstone by William Allingham
- Владимир Британишский – Багульник, ельник, изволоки, взгорья
- With Antecedents. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: Ballads on Mr. Heron’s Election, 1795: Ballad First
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On Holy Willie:
- Sure Hit Songwriter’s Pen by Shel Silverstein
- “The flower, full blown, now bends the stalk, now breaks” poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Глазков – Что ни год, идёт вперёд
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Человек
- Валерий Брюсов – К.А. Коровину (Душа твоя, быть может, ослепительней)
- The Proud Farmer by Vachel Lindsay
- Альфред Теннисон – Волшебница Шалот
- Song by Thomas Carew
- Алишер Навои – Поучительные заветы старости
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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).
