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:
- Thoughts Mahomed Akram
- Sonnet On The Death Of Mr Richard West by Thomas Gray
- Sonnet 32: If thou survive my well-contented day by William Shakespeare
- A HYMN TO VENUS AND CUPID by Robert Herrick
- The First Part: Sonnet 4 – Fair is my yoke, though grievous be my pains, by William Drummond
- At the Party by W H Auden
- Sonnet CXLIX by William Shakespeare
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 26. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- Иван Дмитриев – Старик и трое молодых
- Владимир Маяковский – Помни о дне красной казармы! (РОСТА № 732)
- Валерий Брюсов – In hас lackimarum valle (в этой долине слез )
- Night At The Marina by Shreekumar Varma
- The Other Half by Shaunna Harper
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Adolescence II by Rita Dove
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
- The Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
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
