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
- Sonnet Ix
- The Hidden Law by W H Auden
- Under Saturn by William Butler Yeats
- The Princess: A Medley: Home they Brought her Warrior Dead poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- What Are Big Girls Made Of? by Marge Piercy
- Rusty Folks by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – В метро
- Sonnet: To Time by Sylvia Plath
- “`Shepherd swains that feed your flocks” poem – Alfred Austin
- Robert Burns: Lines To A Gentleman,: Who had sent the Poet a Newspaper, and offered to continue it free of Expense.
- Azure and Gold poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Chant-Pagan by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet I: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase by William Shakespeare
- Николай Заболоцкий – Вечерний бар
- Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old by William Shakespeare
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.