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
- Владимир Британишский – В годы войны
- A Parænesis To Prince Henry by William Alexander
- The Fair Singer poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- A Song : The Sparkling Eye by William Cowper
- Meeting at an Airport by Taha Muhammad Ali
- Василий Казин – Кирилл и Мефодий
- We Astronomers by Rebecca Elson
- Morning at the Window by T. S. Eliot
- Olney Hymn 67: Longing To Be With Christ by William Cowper
- Ballades IV – Of Life poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Владимир Британишский – Автопортрет Давида
- To A Young Lady Who Sent Me A Laurel Crown poem – John Keats poems
- Омар Хайям – Миг придёт, и смерть исторгнет жадно
- Sonnet. On The Sea poem – John Keats poems
- Юрий Галансков – Утро
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).
