pathos is the skyward tanka
by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
a mother swathed in muslin
scavenging, rubble
behind the sea of biscay
a burned down house on a mound
a bargain respect, absent
what was us, what was sweet home
lost to an ornery sound
shanks pressed into the pallid
how they grieve even –
in flight, there’s nothing
no coast, of drift, remembrance
so she writes because
she forgets what she puts down
rope and field of lies
rising flames, a white refrain
driftpin verse forms miscreant
as if resting on water –
a sail, ascension
Red Ochre Lit
Copyright ©:
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
A few random poems:
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Киклоп драма сатиров (перевод)
- Underneath an Abject Willow by W H Auden
- My arm for a pillow by Yosa Buson
- The Return by Rudyard Kipling
- Chant-Pagan by Rudyard Kipling
- Юлия Друнина – Есть праздники, что навсегда с тобой
- In the Waters of Purity by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Robert Burns: Monody: On a lady famed for her Caprice.
- On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank poem – A. E. Housman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Солдат и привидение
- Яков Полонский – Памяти В. М. Гаршина
- Nationality by Mary Gilmore
- By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame. by Walt Whitman
- Ione, Dead the Long Year poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Robert Burns: Extempore Reply To An Invitation:
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 Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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
