nominalism is a liquid kuhi
by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
solomonic column, white
scraped clean of spirals
here lies a similar name
safe, lamp-lit passage
maybe tomorrow, a shine
as a flute flourished
flushed garlands atop, around
us wet down, barley sugar
too extravagant with hope?
frugal enough with old dreams?
preserved, these dreams flower white
as sitting exhorts us, still
as a liturgy cooing
its soliloquy
new and different
a silent weeping, whisper
to recover this –
an ice-sheet soul, white
flash, bright glacial creak
The Oral Tradition
Copyright ©:
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

A few random poems:
- Владимир Маяковский – Пахали сохой — запашем трактором (Главполитпросвет №42)
- Beast and Man in India by Rudyard Kipling
- Morale by Sunil Sharma
- Омар Хайям о людях: Стихи, рубаи о человеке Омара Хайяма – Poetry Monster
- lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
- Robert Burns: On Politics:
- Шекспир – Мои глаза в тебя не влюблены – Сонет 141
- Владимир Маяковский – Переворот в Германии (Роста №42)
- Life by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Алексей Толстой – Уж ты нива моя, нивушка
- Вера Павлова – Нежность больше не делится
- Николай Карамзин – Стихи на слова, заданные мне Хлoeю: миг, картина и дверь
- To the Author of a Poem Entitled Succession poem – Alexander Pope
- Desesperanto by Marilyn Hacker
- Николай Карамзин – Гимн слепых
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Forty Years Later by Martin Willitts, Jr
- Life by Marvin Bell
- Farmers Market by Mary TallMountain
- Let Him Free by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Eternal Existence by Mark Miller
- Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand
- Et Le Marbre Creuse… by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Important thing’s in life by Martin Smith
- Images by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Illusions by Mark R Slaughter
- If Only by Mary Etta Metcalf
- I, or Someone Like Me by Marvin Bell
- He Said To by Marvin Bell
- Grumpy Old Man by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Giving Myself Up by Mark Strand
- Ghosts by Martina Reisz Newberry
- From The Long Sad Party by Mark Strand
- Forty Years Later by Martin Willitts, Jr
- Farmers Market by Mary TallMountain
- Eternal Existence by Mark Miller
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works