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
- Bothwell Castle by William Wordsworth
- Show It At The Beach by Shel Silverstein
- Иван Киуру – Звездный полет
- Robin Hood And The Butcher poem – Andrew Lang poems
- At Shelley’s Grave poem – Alfred Austin
- Юнна Мориц – Вместо сноски
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- Ode To Sleep by Thomas Warton
- Ольга Берггольц – Пусть голосуют дети
- From The ‘Antigone’ by William Butler Yeats
- Epigram pinned to Mrs. Riddell’s carriage by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: Epigram On Miss Davies: On being asked why she had been formed so little, and Mrs. A-so big.
- Love Has Nothing to Do with the Five Senses by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- In A Station Of The Metro poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Robert Burns: Burlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher:
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).
