Someone was saying
something about shadows covering the field, about
how things pass, how one sleeps towards morning
and the morning goes.
Someone was saying
how the wind dies down but comes back,
how shells are the coffins of wind
but the weather continues.
It was a long night
and someone said something about the moon shedding its
white
on the cold field, that there was nothing ahead
but more of the same.
Someone mentioned
a city she had been in before the war, a room with two
candles
against a wall, someone dancing, someone watching.
We begin to believe
the night would not end.
Someone was saying the music was over and no one had
noticed.
Then someone said something about the planets, about the
stars,
how small they were, how far away.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Английская поэзия. Редьярд Киплинг. «Эпитафии Войны». 1914-1918. 1. Убытки поровну. Rudyard Kipling. «Epitaphs of the War». 1914-1918. 1. «Equality of Sacrifice»
- Devonshire Street W.1 poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Иван Дмитриев – Слепец, Собака его и Школьник
- Владимир Британишский – Девятое января
- To – – – – –
- Crab by Sharon Olds
- To The Honble Commodore Hood on His Pardoning a Deserter by Phillis Wheatley
- A Narrow Girdle Of Rough Stones And Crags, by William Wordsworth
- The Ivy by William Barnes
- Irish Love Song by Margaret Widdemer
- Гавриил Державин – Подражание псалму (Терпел я, уповал на Бога)
- Sonnet 54: O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem by William Shakespeare
- Ballad of the Goodly Fere poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Степан Щипачев – Потомкам
- Wake Oslo up again by Philo Ikonya
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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).
