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
- A Statesman’s Holiday by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Языков – Элегии (Свободен я: уже не трачу)
- William Allingham – William Allingham
- Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year by Raymond Carver
- Жан де Лафонтен – Волк, Мать и Ребенок
- Corinna, from Athens, to Tanagra by Walter Savage Landor
- Orlando Furioso Canto 15 by Ludovico Ariosto
- A Prayer poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Untitled #12 by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Владимир Маяковский – Номер 17
- My Invisible Valentine by Nin Andrews
- In The Chapel Of Rest by Steve Sant
- Ольга Высотская – Гости
- He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace by William Butler Yeats
- Ярослав Смеляков – Здравствуй, Пушкин
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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).
