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:
- The Master of the Dance by Vachel Lindsay
- I Don’t Know If History Repeats Itself by Yehuda Amichai
- Ольга Берггольц – Придешь, как приходят слепые
- The Force Of Prayer, Or, The Founding Of Bolton, A Tradition by William Wordsworth
- Mae Marsh, Motion Picture Actress by Vachel Lindsay
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 5 из 15
- Crazy Insane by Stephen Sweitzer
- A Child’s Prayer by Siegfried Sassoon
- For Birds by Nithin Purple
- The Snake
- Epitaph for Mr. W. Cruickshank by Robert Burns
- Linda Deäne by William Barnes
- Sonnet. Written In Disgust Of Vulgar Superstition poem – John Keats poems
- Зинаида Александрова – Утки, беленькие грудки
- The Lame Guy by Rob Leatherman Sr.
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
- Chronicle
- Change
- Beauty
- Bathing River
- Bathing In The River
- Answer Copy Verses Sent Me Jersey
- Anacreontics The Swallow
- Anacreontics The Epicure
- Anacreontics Drinking
- An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
- Against Hope
- Against Fruition
- Summer Moon
- Stars
- Love Is Just Like The Rain
- Boy Running In The Rain
- Xai Kou From Book Seeds Of Faith
- Xai Kou1
- Xai Kou0
- Xai Kou
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
