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
- The Fabulists by Rudyard Kipling
- Sunflowers by Martin Willitts Jr.
- Владимир Маяковский – Ров (РОСТА №181)
- The Warm and the Cold by Ted Hughes
- Владимир Высоцкий – Грицюку
- Yesterday by W. S. Merwin
- Winters!!! by Aditya Kumar
- Джон Мильтон – Псалом 1
- Владимир Солоухин – Вдоль берегов Болгарии прошли мы
- The Nearness That Is All by Samuel Hazo
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Dirge of the Three Queens by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 105: Let not my love be called idolatry by William Shakespeare
- A King’s Soliloquy [On the Night of His Funeral] by Thomas Hardy
- Ancient Music poem – Ezra Pound poems
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).
