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:
- Владимир Британишский – Двуединство души
- Are You the New person, drawn toward Me? by Walt Whitman
- Валерий Брюсов – И он взглянул, и ты уснула, и он ушел, и умер день
- Riden Hwome At Night by William Barnes
- To Mr. H. Lawes on His Airs poem – John Milton poems
- Father by Philip Levine
- Absence poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Coromandel Fishers by Sarojini Naidu
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Николай Карамзин – Послание к Александру Алексеевичу Плещееву
- Again And Again, However We Know The Landscape Of Love by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Song IV: Draw Near and Behold Me by William Morris
- Ireland With Emily poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Lover’s Gifts XLIII: Dying, You Have Left Behind by Rabindranath Tagore
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
- Robinson by Weldon Kees
- The End Of The Library by Weldon Kees
- Late Evening Song by Weldon Kees
- La Vita Nuova by Weldon Kees
- Interregnum by Weldon Kees
- Dead March by Weldon Kees
- Covering Two Years by Weldon Kees
- Colloquy by Weldon Kees
- A Pastiche For Eve by Weldon Kees
- A Musician’s Wife by Weldon Kees
- 1926 by Weldon Kees
- Woods by Wendell Berry
- What We Need Is Here by Wendell Berry
- Water by Wendell Berry
- The Wish to be Generous by Wendell Berry
- The Silence by Wendell Berry
- The Real Work by Wendell Berry
- The peace of wild things by Wendell Berry
- The Man Born to Farming by Wendell Berry
- The Lilies by Wendell Berry
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
