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 Высоцкий – Люблю тебя
- Myself by Robert Creeley
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1 poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- xai_kou0.html
- Upon a Lady’s Fall Over a Stile, Gotten by Running From Her Love by William Wycherley
- Composed on The Eve Of The Marriage Of A Friend In The Vale Of Grasmere by William Wordsworth
- Владислав Крапивин – Гонка
- Василий Жуковский – К ней
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 44. She Is Far From the Land. Томас Мур.
- Иван Крылов – Лев состаревшийся (Басня)
- Sonnet CVIII by William Shakespeare
- The Roussalka poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Children’s Children by William Barnes
- To a Certain Cantatrice. by Walt Whitman
- A Lovers’ Quarrel by Robert Browning
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