by Alexander Russo
Two horses grazing in a distant field.
Closer up, a few leaves twisting
on a branch.
The leaves begin to take on
A strange new presence: crinkled,
stubborn face.
One resembles a monster,
paying off a bad Kharmic debt.
It groans, swaying back and forth,
like the broken hand of a pendulum.
Another, as hideous, pock-marked,
grief stricken.
The more I study them, the more faces,
festering, doomed to Limbo….
or perhaps already in Hell.
Out of nowhere a robin flits up
to the glass, flutters around, seems
partly inside, then outside the window.
I rub my eyes.
Reality …unreality?
Perhaps “reality” is perception, tricked
by colors of mind and imagination.
Alexander Russo
Copyright ©:
Alexander Russo
A few random poems:
- Sometimes by Vinko Kalinić
- Robert Burns: On The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Arniston,: Late Lord President of the Court of Session.
- Lately our poets by Walter Savage Landor
- Compromising my ego by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Poets to Come. by Walt Whitman
- Seven Deadly Signs of Poetry Scams
- Олег Григорьев – Комары
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вот и настал этот час опять
- Омар Хайям – Мы источник веселья, и скорби рудник
- Жан де Лафонтен – Пьяница и Жена его
- Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ad Se Ipsum by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Repentance by Shailendra Chauhan
- Villonaud for This Yule poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Яков Полонский – На закате
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
- The Confederate Flags poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- At The Close Of The Canvass poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Christian poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Bride poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- At The Close Of The Canvass poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Wreath Of Immortelles poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- With a Book poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Weather poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- To the Bartholdi Statue poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Statesmen poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Safety-Clutch poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Rimer poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Piety poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Ambrose Bierce – Ambrose Bierce Poems | Poems and Poetry
- Freedom poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Elegy poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Decalogue poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- An Inion poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Alone poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- On Beer
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
