Nothing will hurt you that much despite how you feel
the stress on your back shapes your insight
this splendid November rain Toussaint. I find
you by your marks, he says
an imprint
But when I summon you, I talk to—I say—
my memory of your face. It’s kind of crazy
to others. They’re not very interesting he says.
When I first came to this country, and now
I know the language I say, but I had in a dream
spoken it many years previously. That is,
not the language of the dead the language
of France. I took one year of French in 1964
and then nothing but once, in 1977 I spoke French
in a dream all night: I was in the future I
moved here in 1992. Country of the more
logical than I? though the people of my quartier
know and like me, even as I a foreigner remain strange
You do everything alone a woman said to me.
There are ways to care without interfering
but the French speak of anguish frequently
they are conscious of emotional extremity
a terrible gift. It’s all a gift, he says . . .
some haven’t been opened. I’m not sure
he said that it’s nearly my sixty-seventh birthday
today though it’s the day of the dead hello
we love you they say.
Copyright ©:
Alice Notley
A few random poems:
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- Константин Бальмонт – Морская пани
- Николай Некрасов – Великодушный поступок
- Николай Заболоцкий – Противостояние Марса
- Starlight
- Федор Сологуб – Всё зеленее и светлее
- The Bombardment poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- To Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart From the South-West Coast Or Cumberland 1811 by William Wordsworth
- Олег Бундур – Про чемпионов
- Олег Сердобольский – Кузнечик
- Николай Гумилев – Звездный ужас
- The Garden By Moonlight poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Гумилев – Она говорила
- Владимир Высоцкий – Знать бы все до конца бы и сразу б
- Ок Мельникова – Что рассказать?
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
- A Consolation to Cuckholds by William Wycherley poems
- A Soft Day by Winifred Mary Letts
- What Reward? by Winifred Mary Letts
- To A Soldier In Hospital by Winifred Mary Letts
- To A May Baby by Winifred Mary Letts
- Tim, An Irish Terrier by Winifred Mary Letts
- The Spires Of Oxford by Winifred Mary Letts
- The Kerry Cow by Winifred Mary Letts
- The Harbour by Winifred Mary Letts
- The Deserter by Winifred Mary Letts
- The Connaught Rangers by Winifred Mary Letts
- The Call To Arms In Our Street by Winifred Mary Letts
- Synge’s Grave by Winifred Mary Letts
- Screens (In a Hospital) by Winifred Mary Letts
- Easter Snow by Winifred Mary Letts
- Chaplain To The Forces by Winifred Mary Letts
- Casualty by Winifred Mary Letts
- And She is Spoke by Winifred Mary Letts
- A Dog’s Grave by Winifred Mary Letts
- Love Sonnet XXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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
