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
- Николай Языков – Сказка о пастухе и диком вепре
- Sonnet. If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d poem – John Keats poems
- Ольга Седакова – Как упавшую руку
- Interpret The Light
- Ode to the Bat , a Sonnet
- death039s_claim.html
- Олег Григорьев – Мазохисту на лавке
- The Perfect Wave by Shel Silverstein
- Always for the first time
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Garden and Gardener. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- A Roxbury Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Федор Сологуб – Слепой судьбе противореча
- Владимир Высоцкий – Случай на таможне
- Robert Burns: Logan Braes:
- Greece Madum…! by Perugu Ramakrishna
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).