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:
- Anchor Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Олег Бундур – Вечером
- Three Sonnets Written In Mid-Channel poem – Alfred Austin
- Омар Хайям – Когда ты для меня слепил из глины плоть
- Monologue At 3 AM by Sylvia Plath
- Омар Хайям – Никто не лицезрел ни рая, ни геенны
- Love Has Nothing to Do with the Five Senses by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- An Elegy On The Glory Of Her Sex, Mrs Mary Blaize by Oliver Goldsmith
- To Prince Charles by William Alexander
- Владимир Маяковский – Декрет о натуральном налоге на хлеб, картофель и масличные семена
- Gleaners Of Fame poem – Alfred Austin
- The Aquittal Of Phryne poem – Alfred Austin
- Алексей Ржевский – Прости, Москва
- Василий Жуковский – Деревенский сторож в полночь
- On A World Of Imaginary & Freedom Dwell by Nithin Purple
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
- The Campera, the Foreigner y el Novio by Marjorie Kanter
- The Boy by Marilyn Hacker
- The Aegean by Maria Luisa Spaziani
- The Gate by Marie Howe
- The Copper Beech by Marie Howe
- Synchronicity by Marina Cecilia Kohon
- Subjective Genocide by Marie Starr
- Subject to Change by Marilyn L. Taylor
- Spenser’s Ireland by Marianne Moore
- Song by Margaret Widdemer
- Silence by Marianne Moore
- Scars on Paper by Marilyn Hacker
- Rosemary by Marianne Moore
- Release by Marie Starr
- Reading Runes by Marina Cecilia Kohon
- Portrait in Black and White by Marjorie Kanter
- Poetry by Marianne Moore
- Peter by Marianne Moore
- Passion by Sera Jacob
- Paragraphs from a Day-Book by Marilyn Hacker
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
