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:
- Summer We Called Home by Vinita Agrawal
- Must Work by Steve Downes
- Шекспир – Чтобы стихи, рожденные когда-то – Сонет 38
- A Kind of Life by Stanley Wilkin
- Hyperion. Book I poem – John Keats poems
- Love In Autumn by Sara Teasdale
- Lament Of Mary Queen Of Scots by William Wordsworth
- Where We Live Now by Philip Levine
- The Fading Flower by Will McKendree Carleton
- Владимир Маяковский – Богомольное
- Омар Хайям – Двести лет проживешь, или тысячу лет
- Robert Burns: Reply To An Announcement By J. Rankine: On His Writing To The Poet, That A Girl In That Part Of The Country Was With A Child To Him.
- Гавриил Державин – К силуэту Ивана Ивановича Хемницера
- Late realizations by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Михаил Ломоносов – На сочетание стихов Российских
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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
