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
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Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
A few random poems:
- Night Shift by Sylvia Plath
- Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns
- Song Of The Wandering Jew by William Wordsworth
- The Lily And The Rose by William Cowper
- Шекспир – Прекрасный облик в зеркале ты видишь – Сонет 3
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 13 из 15
- Валерий Брюсов – Из арабской лирики отрывок
- Robert Burns: Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay:
- After Hearing a Waltz poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: By Allan Stream:
- Epitaphs Translated From Chiabrera by William Wordsworth
- The Voice of Woman by Shahida Latif
- A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall by Robert Herrick
- The Cat’s Song by Marge Piercy
- Orlando Furioso Canto 17 by Ludovico Ariosto
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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
