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:
- Out of the Rolling Ocean, the Crowd. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Странная сказка
- “The Curtains Now Are Drawn” by Thomas Hardy
- INTO THE LAIR by Satish Verma
- Sweet Love Is Dead poem – Alfred Austin
- Олег Григорьев – Я спросил электрика Петрова
- Николай Языков – Сержант Сурмин
- Владимир Британишский – Как турмалин, что субстанцию сланца
- Федор Сологуб – Во мне мечты мои цветут
- Mary’s Son by Rudyard Kipling
- Once A Great Love by Yehuda Amichai
- FREEDOM by Mac McGovern
- Федор Сологуб – Зальдивши тайный зной страстей, Валерий
- An Hymn To Humanity by Phillis Wheatley
- A Gogyohka And The Forgotten Panopticon
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
