sitting beside the very street
on a dilapidated bench, paint peeling
people stroll past, children scurry
an infant left in a carriage outside a shop wails
wearing a small blue beret, the kind tractor drivers wear
a thick raincoat from who knows how long ago, high rubber boots
he sits, eating ice cream with wafers
two more portions on the bench, beside him
old, unkempt cheeks,
alone, by himself,
buses stopping before the shops
he sits and calmly eats ice cream
it’s hot, the end of May
around him
a magic circle spreads
quiet and solitude
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Омар Хайям – Что плоть твоя, Хайям?
- For What As Easy by W H Auden
- Before, Behind, And Beyond poem – Alfred Austin
- Наум Коржавин – Еще в мальчишеские годы
- The Woods At Night by May Swenson
- Валерий Брюсов – Дождь перед ночью
- Наум Коржавин – Комиссары
- He Tells Of A Valley Full Of Lovers by William Butler Yeats
- The Rabbi’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Winter – The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne poem – Alexander Pope
- Base Details by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Wanderer by Siegfried Sassoon
- Muhammad by Mahmoud Darwish
- On Catullus by Walter Savage Landor
- Marks Of Disrespect by Graham Rowlands
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
