I Shout Love
by Milton Acorn
I shout love in a blizzard’s
scarf of curling cold,
for my heart’s a furred sharp-toothed thing
that rushes out whimpering
when pain cries the sign writ on it.
I shout love into your pain
when skies crack and fall
like slivers of mirrors,
and rounded fingers, blued as a great rake,
pluck the balled yarn of your brain.
I shout love at petals peeled open
by stern nurse fusion-bomb sun,
terribly like an adhesive bandage,
for love and pain, love and pain
are companions in this age.
End of the poem
15 random poems
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- Epitaph on John Rankine by Robert Burns
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Кэрролла
- On a Sea Fight, Which the Author was in, Betwixt the English and Dutch by William Wycherley
- Riden Hwome At Night by William Barnes
- Effrontery by Satish Verma
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вы были у Беллы
- The Hermit Goes Up Attic by Maxine Kumin
- The Raft by Vachel Lindsay
- The Wheel by William Butler Yeats
- Dresser, The. by Walt Whitman
- Animal Tranquility And Decay by William Wordsworth
- Early summer rain by Yosa Buson
- Николай Заболоцкий – Вчера, о смерти размышляя
- At Sea
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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).
