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:
- Owen Aherne And His Dancers by William Butler Yeats
- Come From The Daisied Meadows by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Jones’s Porvate Argyment by Sidney Lanier
- Music’s Empire poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Владимир Солоухин – Теперь-то уж плакать нечего
- Dissolve in kisses, I would like to dissolve in your kisses
- Unloved, unmoved by Maria Jastine Golo
- Upon a Lady’s Fall Over a Stile, Gotten by Running From Her Love by William Wycherley
- Николай Карамзин – Послание к Александру Алексеевичу Плещееву
- Владимир Высоцкий – Давайте я спою вам в подражанье радиолам
- A Fairy Song by William Shakespeare
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- Юрий Галансков – Справедливости окровавленные уста
- Владимир Маринин – К нам тётя соседка заходит на чай
- Schoolroom On A Wet Afternoon by Vernon Scannell
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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
