Not a Star
by Adonis
Neither a star,
nor a prophet’s inspiration,
nor a face praying to the moon, is Mihyar.
Here he comes
like a pagan spear,
invading the land of letters,
bleeding
and raising to the sun
his bleeding.
Here he is,
wearing the nakedness of stone
and praying to the caves.
Here he is,
cuddling the light Earth.
Songs of Mihyar the Damamscene
Copyright ©:
translated by Kamal Abu-Deeb
A few random poems:
- Twins by Vinko Kalinić
- The Garden By Moonlight poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Night Song At Amalfi by Sara Teasdale
- Владимир Британишский – Кваренги
- About Face poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
- women picking edible plants by Raj Arumugan
- A Song On A Sigh by William Strode
- Алишер Навои – О, мне бы крылья
- Astrophel and Stella LXXXIV: HIGHWAY by Sir Philip Sidney
- City Dead-House, The. by Walt Whitman
- Алексей Жемчужников – Примирение
- Низами Гянджеви – Ты видишь: я твой давний друг
- Владимир Орлов – Добрый день
- Daybreak In A Garden by Siegfried Sassoon
- Омар Хайям – Чем пустыми мечтами себя донимать
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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
