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:
- February 23
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ! Шахтер раздет… (РОСТА №603)
- How We Heard The Name
- Николай Глазков – Пусть будет эта повесть
- Rains Have Come poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- C’est la nuit aveugle by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Владимир Маяковский – Сказка о красной шапочке
- Armies in the Fire by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Омар Хайям – Не выращивай в сердце печали росток
- Little angel by Vladimir Marku
- If Thou Could’st Empty All Thyself Of Self by Thomas Edward Brown
- Bistro Memories by P.J.Reed
- Primacy Of Mind poem – Alfred Austin
- Нина Воронель – Меня пугает власть моя над миром
- alexander.html
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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
