each time i pare my nail
i feel deeply grateful
for its unselfish readiness
to die in my stead
sparing me the keen sense
of the unbearable pain of growth
out of those parts of me
always younger
more romantic
and much more memorable
spread randomly
like unnoticeable seeds
sown in the spring soil
End of the poem
15 random poems
- To The Nightingale poem – John Milton poems
- Growltiger’s Last Stand by T. S. Eliot
- In The Event Of My Demise by Tupac Shakur
- On Flatteries (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- When I Go Alone At Night by Rabindranath Tagore
- Омар Хайям – Для тех, кто умирает
- Николай Огарев – Смутные мгновенья
- After the Last Glacier is Gone by Benjamin Alva Polley
- Remorse: A Fragment by Robert Burns
- The Princess: A Medley: Ask me no more poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- epitaph_for_our_children.html
- Letter to my father by Preeth Nambiar
- Resolve by Sylvia Plath
- Eveleen’s Bower by Thomas Moore
- Death Of A Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
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).
