On the warm July river
head back
upside down river
for a roof
slowly paddling
towards an estuary between trees
there’s a dog
learning to swim near me
friends on shore
my head
dips
back to the eyebrow
I’m the prow
on an ancient vessel,
this afternoon
I’m going down to Peru
soul between my teeth
a blue heron
with its awkward
broken backed flap
upside down
one of us is wrong
he
his blue grey thud
thinking he knows
the blue way
out of here
or me
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Robert Burns: Epigram To Miss Ainslie In Church: Who was looking up the text during sermon.
- The Boat by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Dying of America and How to Save Her
- Baptistry
- Address To A Child During A Boisterous Winter By My Sister by William Wordsworth
- On Envy (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- To What Serves Mortal Beauty? poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Ode To Psyche poem – John Keats poems
- The Grandmother poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Москва-Одесса
- Termites by Piera Chen
- Early Risèn by William Barnes
- Blighters by Siegfried Sassoon
- Silvia by William Shakespeare
- Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad? by William Butler Yeats
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).
Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943) is a renowned Canadian author and poet. He is best known for his novel “The English Patient,” which won the Booker Prize and was later adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. Ondaatje’s works often explore themes of identity, memory, and the impact of war. He has received numerous accolades for his contributions to literature and is considered a significant figure in contemporary Canadian literature.