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:
- Music poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations by Robert Burns
- “By Moscow Self-Devoted To A Blaze” by William Wordsworth
- Love Song poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Astigmatism poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sassoon’s Public Statement Of Defiance by Siegfried Sassoon
- Омар Хайям – Не оплакивай, смертный, вчерашних потерь
- Request
- Эмиль Верхарн – Воскресное утро
- Hast Thou A Song For A Flower by William Gilmore Simms
- The Trial Of A Man by Sylvia Plath
- In the Carpenter’s Shop by Sara Teasdale
- Though All The World poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Языков – Посвящение А. А. Воейковой «Песни короля Регнера»
- Reading by William Marr
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
- To Virgil poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- To The Queen poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- To J. S. poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- To E. Fitzgerald: Tiresias poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Tithonus poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Talking Oak poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Ringlet poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Revenge; A Ballad of the Fleet poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Progress of Spring poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess (The Conclusion) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess (prologue) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess (part 7) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess (part 6) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess (part 5) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess (part 4) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess (part 3) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess (part 2) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess (part 1) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess: A Medley: Thy Voice is Heard poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Princess: A Medley: Tears, Idle Tears poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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
