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:
- Petrarchan Sonnet: If no one else breathed in this wide, wide world by T. Wignesan
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Новогоднее видение
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я любил и женщин и проказы
- Address to the Toothache by Robert Burns
- Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell
- Ольга Берггольц – Не может быть, чтоб жили мы напрасно
- Chi È? poem – Alfred Austin
- Fragment. Where’s The Poet? poem – John Keats poems
- Post coitum omne animal triste est sive gallus et mulier by T. Wignesan.
- The Coal Picker poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Written Juice Lemon
- Владимир Маяковский – Гимназист или строитель
- 1926 by Weldon Kees
- Itri poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster
- Sonnet. Written On A Blank Space At The End Of Chaucer’s Tale Of ‘The Floure And The Lefe’ poem – John Keats poems
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
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Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
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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
