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
- Вера Полозкова – Мне бы только хотелось
- Владимир Маяковский – Заря Коммуны разгорается туго… (РОСТА №856)
- The Frog’s Choice by William Somervile
- Валерий Брюсов – И он взглянул, и ты уснула, и он ушел, и умер день
- A Cat Called Shan by Pamela Griffiths
- “O you, far colder, whiter” by Torquato Tasso
- Upper Lambourne poem – John Betjeman poems
- Валерий Брюсов – К.А. Коровину (Душа твоя, быть может, ослепительней)
- Николай Заболоцкий – Прощание
- To Death poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- VOICES by Satish Verma
- The Grauballe Man by Seamus Heaney
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- Анатолий Жигулин – О, жизнь! Я всё тебе прощаю
- Towards Break Of Day 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).
