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
- A Song of Enchantment by Walter de la Mare
- Goodbat Nightman by Roger McGough
- Bigtime by Shel Silverstein
- Geotheos poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Look Now On That Adventurer Who Hath Paid by William Wordsworth
- Lonely Poets by Ndue Ukaj
- Mules poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster
- Soul’s Birth by Sara Teasdale
- Quatrain 1693 (Farsi with English Translation) by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- He Said To by Marvin Bell
- Владимир Маяковский – Стихотворение о проданной телятине
- Orlando Furioso Canto 15 by Ludovico Ariosto
- The Current by Raymond Carver
- Enoch Arden poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A dragonfly that committed suicide by Preeth Nambiar
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.