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:
- On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 06 by Torquato Tasso
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- Степан Щипачев – Опять тревожно, больно сердцу стало
- Eclogue:–John An’ Thomas by William Barnes
- Алексей Плещеев – Когда твой кроткий, ясный взор
- How Sweet It Is, When Mother Fancy Rocks by William Wordsworth
- Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman by William Wordsworth
- Bottles Of Sunshine by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Кондратий Рылеев – Любовь к отчизне
- CIA Dope Calypso by Allen Ginsberg
- And Doth Not a Meeting Like This by Thomas Moore
- Николай Карамзин – Приношение грациям
- On King Arthur’s Round Table at Winchester by Thomas Warton
- Sonnet 35: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done by William Shakespeare
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
- Woken Up By Beautiful Dreams
- The Poet Angels Who Came To Dinner
- The Nomad039s Vision Ode To A Skylark Dressed In Black
- The Man That Poetry Made
- Power Of Thought
- Once Was A Singer For God Remembering Nekia
- My Aroma
- Lost Love Is Never Lost
- Holiday Letter For A Poet Gone To War
- Gratitudes Of A Dozen Roses
- Every Hour Henceforth
- Cell Mate
- Calling The Spirits
- Angel Of Christmas Love Shining Bright
- Angel Of Better Days To Come
- All Night In Savannah The Wind Wrote Poetry
- The Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
- The Prison Of The Past
- The Dead Woman
- Pathos Is The Skyward Tanka
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
