Many see a flutterby when they look into this
omniscience I see as a skinniness too densely drawn
or a mystery unhinged by its own symmetry, a twinning
I think of as a listener that thinks along
with me, fused in a tweed, a red herring-
bone weave in the dazzling darkness
and bleached afterness some see
as a necklace of brilliants curved in gift. As if!
A color visible only in ultra-
violet light or a source beyond mathematics I think
of as a second self, an underhum. Or thought. Till I saw
innocence tortured by a force
beyond kindness, an unconditional indifference
or wick for wickedness that wanted trauma dolls.
I tell this as a clock tells time but telling can’t diminish it
as clocks can’t dwindle time. Am I still alive?
Birds that sing behind a waterfall, horses kneeling
Christmas Eve are what others see in what I see
as us delivered up to this chill that searches me.
Copyright ©:
2013, Alice Fulton
A few random poems:
- Love Poem to My Husband of Thirty-one Years by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- The Redbreast Chasing The Butterfly by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: Duncan Davison :
- Lord when the wise men came from farr by Sidney Godolphin
- On Being A Householder
- Sonnet 37: As a decrepit father takes delight by William Shakespeare
- Song Of Taj Mahomed
- Knoxville Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni
- Ольга Берггольц – Церковь “Дивная” в Угличе
- Владимир Маяковский – Небылицы в лицах
- In Honour of the City of London by William Dunbar
- Sonnet To George Keats: Written In Sickness poem – John Keats poems
- The Lord of Burleigh poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Mary Ambree poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Что может быть старей кустарей?.. (РОСТА №573)
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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
