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
- The Hecatomb to his Mistress by John Cleveland
- What the Coal-Heaver Said by Vachel Lindsay
- The Sequel to a Reminiscence poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- My Beach by Robert Saltzman
- On The Luxembourg Gallery by Washington Allston
- Song—Farewell to the Banks of Ayr by Robert Burns
- Lord Roberts by Rudyard Kipling
- Lines Written As A School Exercise At Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis 14 by William Wordsworth
- On The Dunes by Sara Teasdale
- Ballade Of Youth And Age by William Ernest Henley
- Вера Звягинцева – Пойдёте пешком на кладбище
- Winter Seascape poem – John Betjeman poems
- Love’s Wisdom poem – Alfred Austin
- The Old Revolutionary’s Room by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Владимир Британишский – Чай
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
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