I come from there and remember,
I was born like everyone is born, I have a mother
and a house with many windows,
I have brothers, friends and a prison.
I have a wave that sea-gulls snatched away.
I have a view of my own and an extra blade of grass.
I have a moon past the peak of words.
I have the godsent food of birds and an olive tree beyond the kent of time.
I have traversed the land before swords turned bodies into banquets.
I come from there, I return the sky to its mother when for its mother the sky cries, and I weep for a returning cloud to know me.
I have learned the words of blood-stained courts in order to break the rules.
I have learned and dismantled all the words to construct a single one:
Home
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Quality of Courage by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Владимир Корнилов – Яблоки
- Psalm 80 poem – John Milton poems
- A Walk by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Term by W. S. Merwin
- Николай Языков – Элегия (Есть много всяких мук – и много я их знаю)
- Ольга Берггольц – Сейчас тебе всё кажется тобой
- November by William Cullen Bryant
- Patience by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Маяковский – Собственную революцию удушив… (РОСТА №443)
- Алексей Жемчужников – Сказка о живых мертвецах
- Зинаида Александрова – Утки, беленькие грудки
- Ольга Седакова – Ангел Реймса
- Владимир Маяковский – Ода революции
- Вера Павлова – Поколенье, лишённое почерка и походки
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).
