Not Love Perhaps
by A. S. J. Tessimond
This is not Love, perhaps,
Love that lays down its life,
that many waters cannot quench,
nor the floods drown,
But something written in lighter ink,
said in a lower tone, something, perhaps, especially our own.
A need, at times, to be together and talk,
And then the finding we can walk
More firmly through dark narrow places,
And meet more easily nightmare faces;
A need to reach out, sometimes, hand to hand,
And then find Earth less like an alien land;
A need for alliance to defeat
The whisperers at the corner of the street.
A need for inns on roads, islands in seas,
Halts for discoveries to be shared,
Maps checked, notes compared;
A need, at times, of each for each,
Direct as the need of throat and tongue for speech.
A few random poems:
- Юлия Друнина – Веет чем-то родным и древним
- An Ode of the Birth of our Saviour by Robert Herrick
- Стефан Малларме – Весеннее обновление
- I had a little nut-tree, by Roald Dahl
- Past One O’Clock … by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- By The Fire poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- On Delia (Bid Adieu, My Sad Heart) by William Cowper
- Labyrinth by Sera Jacob
- Зинаида Александрова – Мне рукою машет маленький сынок
- Ribblesdale poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Someday’s Here by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, товарищи, за труд!.. (Главполитпросвет №146)
- To A Cricket by Michael McGovern
- In Westminster Abbey poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
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
- Kinetic Poem 2 by Roger McGough
- Jazz by Roland Bastien
- Goodbat Nightman by Roger McGough
- First Day at School by Roger McGough
- Did you call me Love by Rohini bhatia singh
- Cauls of Haw by Roland Bastien
- Cake by Roger McGough
- Beguiling by Roger McGough
- You Look Up Pictures of Icelandic Ponies by Ruth Madievsky
- Words Of Advice by Ronald G. Auguste
- Who is the Bogeyman? by Ross D Tyler
- Wherever You Go, There You Are by Ryssel Guzman
- We Miss You So Much by Ronald G. Auguste
- Trial by Ruth Padel
- To A Wife, On Mother’s Day by Ronald G. Auguste
- Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool by Ruth Padel
- Threads of Gold by Ronald G. Auguste
- Thoughts by Ronald G. Auguste
- The useless counsellor by Ross D Tyler
- The tragic tale of Bobby Magee by Ross D Tyler
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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