Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell,
Cats’ meetings are neat, tactual, caressive.
Monkeys exchange their fleas before they speak.
Snakes, no doubt, coil by coil reach mutual knowledge.

We then, at first encounter, should be silent;
Not court the cortex but the epidermis;
Not work from inside out but outside in;
Discover each other’s flesh, its scent and texture;
Familiarize the sinews and the nerve-ends,
The hands, the hair; before the inept lips open.

Instead of which we are resonant, explicit.
Our words like windows intercept our meaning.
Our four eyes fence and flinch and awkwardly
Wince into shadow, slide oblique to ambush.
Hands stir, retract. The pulse is insulated.
Blood is turned inwards, lonely; skin unhappy …
While always under all, but interrupted,
Antennae stretch … waver … and almost … touch.

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Poems in English 

• Occupy the Wall Street by Sunil Sharma by Sunil Sharma
• Morale by Sunil Sharma by Sunil Sharma
• Finding freedom from invisible bonds by Sunil Sharma by Sunil Sharma
• Birds heavenly by Sunil Sharma by Sunil Sharma
• Afternoon song by Sunil Sharma by Sunil Sharma
• A daily prayer by a kid by Sunil Sharma by Sunil Sharma
• A beach dawn by Sunil Sharma by Sunil Sharma
• The Pretense of Gathering Pebbles by the Shore by Syed Kawsar Jamal by Poetry In English
• The Magician by Syed Kawsar Jamal by Poetry In English
• Sunday Morning by Susan King Saunders by Poetry In English
• Sitting atop the mountain hill by Swami Aaron Thomas by Poetry In English
• Shattered Dreams by SWARAJ PRASAD by Poetry In English
• Romantic Hour by Suuk Simon Subinimah by Poetry In English
• Rememberance of that Power by sylvan lightbourne by Poetry In English
• Protest poem by Susan King Saunders by Poetry In English
• Od’d(ode) to Whitey Bulger by Susan King Saunders by Poetry In English
• Michelle Obama Tribute by Susan King Saunders by Poetry In English
• Little Girl Dancing by Susan King Saunders by Poetry In English
• Independent at Birth by Suuk Simon Subinimah by Poetry In English
• I am not ashamed of myself by Swami Aaron Thomas by Poetry In English

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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.

 

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