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
- Владимир Маяковский – Гимназист или строитель
- Степан Щипачев – Жил мальчик в деревне
- Владимир Маяковский – О дряни
- The Lover’s Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Robert Burns: Sic A Wife As Willie Had:
- A Brief History of Special Education
- Love’s Blindness poem – Alfred Austin
- On Fame poem – John Keats poems
- We put the urn aboard ship by Sappho
- If I Had A Brontosaurus by Shel Silverstein
- Lament for the Makers by William Dunbar
- Омар Хайям – Думал я, что верны обещанья твои
- Love Sonnet LVIII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- One Inch Tall by Shel Silverstein
- Anne Pennington by Vasko Popa
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).
