Ontological
by Maggie Anderson
This is going to cost you.
If you really want to hear a
country fiddle, you have to listen
hard, high up in its twang and needle.
You can’t be running off like this,
all knotted up with yearning,
following some train whistle,
can’t hang onto anything that way.
When you’re looking for what’s lost,
everything’s a sign,
but you have to stay right up next to
the drawl and pull of the thing
you thought you wanted, had to
have it, could not live without it.
Honey, you will lose your beauty
and your handsome sweetie, this whine,
this agitation, the one you sent for
with your leather boots and your guitar.
The lonesome snag of barbed wire you have
wrapped around your heart is cash money,
honey, you will have to pay.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Solomon To Sheba by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Стих как бы шофера
- The Heart Breaking
- Intruder
- About Face poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
- At Vaucluse poem – Alfred Austin
- Shallow Valley by Vaishnavi Prakash
- When I Go Alone At Night by Rabindranath Tagore
- Physically Hearted
- Design by Robert Frost
- On The Grasshopper And Cricket poem – John Keats poems
- Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments by William Shakespeare
- I Once Knew A Woman by Shel Silverstein
- Confused and Distraught by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- View From The Top Of Black Comb by William Wordsworth
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
