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
- Алексей Жемчужников – Всем хлеба
- To a Virtuous Young Lady poem – John Milton poems
- Did I Not Say To You by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- At Oxford by William Lisle Bowles
- Happy Is England! I Could Be Content poem – John Keats poems
- Вера Павлова – Завещание
- Feelings Of A Noble Biscayan At One Of Those Funerals by William Wordsworth
- Give me a doctor by W H Auden
- Robert Burns: Address To The Woodlark:
- The Fall by William Barnes
- angel_of_better_days_to_come.html
- In A Cuban Garden by Sara Teasdale
- Elizabeth by Michael Ondaatje
- Ярослав Смеляков – Здравствуй, Пушкин
- Иван Бунин – Пустыня, грусть в степных просторах
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).
