in the gazebo
by Bozena Helena Mazur-Nowak
(for my Mother Danuta in Heaven)
a warm September day,
the thirteenth,
your birthday, Mom
smell of coffee on the terrace
sun is frolicking in the asters
there is a pergola in the middle of the orchard
entwined with wild ivy
you are sitting in a rocking chair
squinting your eyes to the sun
and smiling to yourself
how do you measure the past
that burned in a furnace of loss
how do you embrace the seasons of oblivion
what pattern do you cut from the fabric of longing
I look at you from a distance
and regret all those lost years
you rock in your chair and eat an apple
I just need to cross the orchard
and I could nestle in your arms again
feel the soothing warmth
listen to the heart beat
just like when I was a child
a sudden gust of wind
brought clouds of mourning
shadow fell across the aster
I gaze back at the gazebo
and know now, that you are not there
my heart flutters
it refuses to accept
I close my eyes tears flow
you are trapped under my eyelids,
Mom
and you have a warm place in my heart
Mom …
,,Blue Longing” my fifth poetry book
Copyright ©:
© Bozena Helena Mazur-Nowak
A few random poems:
- The Scholars by William Butler Yeats
- The Pleäce A Teäle’s A-Twold O’ by William Barnes
- The Devon Maid: Stanzas Sent In A Letter To B. R. Haydon poem – John Keats poems
- The Owl poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Brockley Coomb by Samuel Coleridge
- “For where, beneath one’s parent sky” poem – Alfred Austin
- Fragments
- Sonnet CVII by William Shakespeare
- Fragment – Wee Willie Gray (Song) by Robert Burns
- The Triumph by Siegfried Sassoon
- Verses On A Young Lady (playing harpsichord, and singing) by Tobias Smollett
- Christian poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Гумилев – Моя мечта летит к далекому Парижу
- Владимир Маяковский – Вместо 2 280 товарных вагонов… (РОСТА №920)
- Вера Полозкова – Это не прихоть, это не блажь
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Yasmini
- Yasin Khan
- Written In Cananore
- Wings
- When Love Is Over
- Verses
- Verses Faiz Ulla
- Verse By Taj Mahomed
- Vayu The Wind
- Valgovinds Song In The Spring
- Valgovinds Boat Song
- Unforgotten
- Unanswered
- Two Songs By Sitara Of Kashmir
- To The Unattainable
- To The Unattainable Lament Of Mahomed Akram
- To The Hills
- To M C N
- To Aziz Song Of Mahomed Akram
- Till I Wake
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
