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
- Николай Языков – Поэт (Радушно рабствует поэту)
- Robert Burns: For A’ That:
- Mowing by Robert Frost
- Sonnet 11 poem – John Milton poems
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In the Forest. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Нина Воронель – Сиротское
- Sonnet 49: Against that time, if ever that time come by William Shakespeare
- Xai Kou1
- Федор Сваровский – Путешественники во времени 9
- Владимир Корнилов – Соперник
- The Nomad039s Vision Ode To A Skylark Dressed In Black
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не отдавайте в физики детей
- Extempore Reply to an Invitation by Robert Burns
- Sonet 50 by William Alexander
- Mad As The Mist And Snow by William Butler Yeats
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).
