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:
- Epigram on a Suicide by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Привет, КИМ
- Михаил Кузмин – Зачем в тот вечер роковой
- Any Wife To Any Husband by Robert Browning
- On Hermocratia (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Fuzzy-Wuzzy by Rudyard Kipling
- The Trouble with Snowmen by Roger McGough
- Владимир Маяковский – Били раз… (РОСТА №631)
- Extempore in the Court of Session by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: Poor Mailie’s Elegy:
- Ольга Берггольц – Церковь “Дивная” в Угличе
- Иван Варавва – Раскинет объятия поле
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- Drinking-Song, A. To a Formal, Proud, Sober Coxcomb by William Wycherley
- How Many Bards Gild The Lapses Of Time! poem – John Keats poems
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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
