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
- Sculptor by Sylvia Plath
- The Mother Of A Poet by Sara Teasdale
- Sonnet IX. Keen, Fitful Gusts Are poem – John Keats poems
- Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The Devon Maid: Stanzas Sent In A Letter To B. R. Haydon poem – John Keats poems
- Is Resume Writing Really That Important?
- The Starlight Night poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Анатолий Жигулин – Цветы сажают в торф
- Cologne by Samuel Coleridge
- When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d. by Walt Whitman
- Two Sonnets. To Haydon, With A Sonnet Written On Seeing The Elgin Marbles poem – John Keats poems
- Алишер Навои – Птицу-сердце полонила нежных локонов силком
- Landscapes poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Coloured Print by Shokei poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Hark! Hark! The Lark by William Shakespeare
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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).
