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:
- Sonnet 109: O, never say that I was false of heart by William Shakespeare
- Ballades II – Of The Book-Hunter poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Владимир Британишский – Багульник, ельник, изволоки, взгорья
- Prayer of St. Francis Xavier poem – Alexander Pope
- Николай Гумилев – Колокол
- They are Cruel by Rixa White
- Sonnet 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way by William Shakespeare
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 29. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- Lover’s Gifts XLVIII: I Travelled the Old Road by Rabindranath Tagore
- For The Anniversary Of My Death by W. S. Merwin
- City of Ships. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Маяковский – Стихи о Фоме
- Aux Imagistes by William Carlos Williams
- Олег Чупров – Путь к Благодати не напрасен
- Юлия Друнина – Убивали молодость мою
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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
