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:
- Pensive and Faltering. by Walt Whitman
- Love Sonnet XLIX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- The Book Of The World by William Drummond
- Ольга Берггольц – На Ивана-пьющего
- Admonition by Sylvia Plath
- Psalm 03 poem – John Milton poems
- A Dream, After Reading Dante’s Episode Of Paolo And Francesca poem – John Keats poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Битва с предками
- Владимир Высоцкий – Свет потушите, вырубите звук
- The Tom Toms
- Sonnet 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Высоцкий – Всё было не так, как хотелось вначале
- Joy-Bells by Siegfried Sassoon
- Watercolor Of Grantchester Meadows by Sylvia Plath
- The Land Of Happy by Shel Silverstein
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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
