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
- Black Lake by Memphis Knight
- God Is Good by John Oxenham
- Time by Vladimir Marku
- Soliloquy Of The Solipsist by Sylvia Plath
- ALL THINGS DECAY AND DIE by Robert Herrick
- I’ve Been Working So Hard by Shel Silverstein
- English Poetry. Charles Wesley. Hark! A Voice Divides the Sky. Чарльз Уэсли.
- Epigram on a Country Laird (Cardoness) by Robert Burns
- Mother
- One Day You Will Miss Me.. by Rahul S
- Ballade Of The Southern Cross poem – Andrew Lang poems
- He Tells Of The Perfect Beauty by William Butler Yeats
- English Poetry. William Barnes. Third Collection. The Broken Heart. Уильям Барнс.
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Виталий Ревякин – Самарский край
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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).