I come from there and I have memories
Born as mortals are, I have a mother
And a house with many windows,
I have brothers, friends,
And a prison cell with a cold window.
Mine is the wave, snatched by sea-gulls,
I have my own view,
And an extra blade of grass.
Mine is the moon at the far edge of the words,
And the bounty of birds,
And the immortal olive tree.
I walked this land before the swords
Turned its living body into a laden table.
I come from there. I render the sky unto her mother
When the sky weeps for her mother.
And I weep to make myself known
To a returning cloud.
I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood
So that I could break the rule.
I learnt all the words and broke them up
To make a single word: Homeland…..
End of the poem
15 random poems
- I have fallen into unconsciousness by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Sword Blades and Poppy Seed poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Young Soul
- A Mother’s Lament for her Son’s Death by Robert Burns
- Юлия Друнина – Жизнь моя не катилась
- Doomes-Day: The Tenth Houre by William Alexander
- Introspection In Evening poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- Vaudracour And Julia by William Wordsworth
- Яков Полонский – На Женевском озере
- The Poet Pleads With The Elemental Powers by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Орлов – Не боится Дима
- The Lady And The Earthenware Head by Sylvia Plath
- To Her Beauty by Nithin Purple
- Vietnam Vet befriends an immigrant in Pittsburgh, Pa – ( let’s put it that way ) by Vasil Slavov
- Cut by Sylvia Plath
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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).
