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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Да здравствует неделя ремонта! (РОСТА № 294)
- Аля Кудряшева – Если ты, к примеру, кролик с шелковистыми ушами
- Николай Глазков – Чтоб улыбалось счастье
- Lovers in Cafe by Aiyah De Torres
- Is Resume Writing Really That Important?
- Aquatic Nocturne by Sylvia Plath
- The End Of The Library by Weldon Kees
- Sonnet Of Motherhood VIII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Christopher Okigbo – Looking Back at His Short-lived Life and Taking Stock of His Poetic Legacy
- Robert Burns: Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux:
- The Prioress’s Tale [from Chaucer] by William Wordsworth
- The Wine by Sara Teasdale
- Beautiful Lofty Things by William Butler Yeats
- Fallen Majesty by William Butler Yeats
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry. by Walt Whitman
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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
