you’ve seen a strawberry
that’s had a struggle; yet
was, where the fragments met,
a hedgehog or a star-
fish for the multitude
of seeds. What better food
than apple seeds; the fruit
within the fruit; locked in
like counter-curved twin
hazelnuts? Frost that kills
the little rubber-plant –
leaves of kok-sagyyz-stalks, can’t
harm the roots; they still grow
in frozen ground. Once where
there was a prickley-pear;
leaf clinging to a barbed wire,
a root shot down to grow
in earth two feet below;
as carrots from mandrakes
or a ram’s-horn root some-
times. Victory won’t come
to me unless I go
to it; a grape tendril
ties a knot in knots till
knotted thirty times; so
the bound twig that’s under-
gone and over-gone, can’t stir.
The weak overcomes its
menace, the strong over-
comes itself. What is there
like fortitude! What sap
went through that little thread
to make the cherry red!
End of the poem
15 random poems
- To the Author of the The Essay on Man by William Somervile
- When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be poem – John Keats poems
- Ad Nepotem by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Minoan Porcelain poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- I closed my eyes to creation by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Жан де Лафонтен – Орел, Дикая Свинья и Кошка
- Some Clouds by Steve Kowit
- Владимир Маяковский – Никчемное самоутешение
- The Dunciad: Book III. poem – Alexander Pope
- Алексей Толстой – Войдем сюда; здесь меж руин
- For Friends Only by W. H. Auden
- At The Gate Of The Convent poem – Alfred Austin
- Василий Жуковский – Там небеса и воды ясны
- Crowride poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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