To make sure
You have not said:
“I love you,”
They smell your breath.
They even smell your heart
Trying times are these, my darling.
They flog love
Tied to the post of the cul-de-sac
We must hide love in the closet.
In this serpentine maze
This crooked cold corner
They feed the fire
With poems and songs
Thinking, too, is risky.
Those who, late at night, knock on the door,
Are there to kill the lamp.
We must hide the light in the closet.
Then there are the butchers
Stationed at all cross-roads,
Armed with a block and a bloody cleaver.
Trying times these are, my darling.
Surgically,
They plant smiles on lips,
And songs in the mouths.
We must hide joy in the closet.
On lilies and lilacs,
They roast the canaries.
Trying times these are, my darling.
Drunk with victory, the Devil,
Celebrates our wake.
We must hide God in the closet.
A few random poems:
- The Innocence by Robert Creeley
- Владимир Маяковский – Солнечный флаг
- Ок Мельникова – Где-то на приморском
- Василий Курочкин – Двуглавый орел
- Puck’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Prayer—O Thou Dread Power by Robert Burns
- Николай Гумилев – Маскарад
- Winged And Acid Dark by Robert Hass
- Weird-Bird by Shel Silverstein
- In Memoriam 131: O Living Will That Shalt Endure poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Apples of Hesperides poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Илона Грошева – Мой друг Евгений
- Journey Home by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Visit by Nijole Miliauskaite
- the_world.html
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
- Wild Dark Love Song by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
- Evolution by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
- There Were Dry Red Days by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
- I Said Coffee by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
- Peaceful Battles by Shekhar Srinivasan
- Passed Away Pain by Shalini Samuel
- Pain Became My Friend Today © by Shannen Wrass
- Open sky by Shailendra Chauhan
- On the edge of time by Shailendra Chauhan
- Life-companion by Shailendra Chauhan
- Joker of the Pack by Shekhar Srinivasan
- Its gonna be sunday by Shailendra Singh
- In her reach by Shailendra Chauhan
- Human Spirit by Shawn Ervin
- Emotions in exile by Shailendra Chauhan
- Desire for You by Seema Gupta
- Brother by Shashini Fernanadez
- At The Gate Of A Hospital by Shahida Latif
- Apathy by Shailendra Chauhan
- Agonizing picture of human existence(Rural Life) by Seema Gupta
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
