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
- Lukannon by Rudyard Kipling
- The Crazed Moon by William Butler Yeats
- Final Notions
- Robert Burns: The Song Of Death: Scene-A Field of Battle. Time of the day-evening. The wounded and dying of the victorious army are supposed to join in the following song.
- Василий Жуковский – К князю Вяземскому
- A Veterans Memories Breeze By In the Wind by Stacey Chillemi
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищи, близятся ужасы зимы… (РОСТА №270)
- angel_of_better_days_to_come.html
- The Soundless Ocean by Tanmoy
- 3 Fun Ways to Stimulate Creative Thinking
- Владимир Степанов – Синичка в электричке
- Enigma by Thomas Moore
- O Sun of Real Peace. by Walt Whitman
- The Woods At Night by May Swenson
- To Mary by William Cowper
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).
