Speaking To You (From Rock Bottom)
by Michael Ondaatje
Speaking to you
this hour
these days when
I have lost the feather of poetry
and the rains
of separation
surround us tock
tock like Go tablets
Everyone has learned
to move carefully
‘Dancing’ ‘laughing’ ‘bad taste’
is a memory
a tableau behind trees of law
In the midst of love for you
my wife’s suffering
anger in every direction
and the children wise
as tough shrubs
but they are not tough
–so I fear
how anything can grow from this
all the wise blood
poured from little cuts
down into the sink
this hour it is not
your body I want
but your quiet company
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Robert Burns: Delia, An Ode : “To the Editor of The Star.-Mr. Printer-If the productions of a simple ploughman can merit a place in the same paper with Sylvester Otway, and the other favourites of the Muses who illuminate the Star with the lustre of genius, your insertion of the enclosed trifle will be succeeded by future communications from-Yours, &c., R. Burns. Ellisland, near Dumfries, 18th May, 1789.”
- Алексей Плещеев – По чувствам братья мы с тобой
- An English Breeze by Robert Louis Stevenson
- When the Assault Was Intended to the City poem – John Milton poems
- Федор Сологуб – В этот час
- Bobsled by Ruth Madievsky
- By the Lake by Tu Fu
- Robert Burns Country: Ronalds Of The Bennals, The:
- On A Good Man (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Design poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Cino poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Константин Бальмонт – На мотив экклезиаста
- Николай Карамзин – Соломонова мудрость, или мысли, выбранные из Экклезиаста
- A Man Young And Old: VIII. Summer And Spring by William Butler Yeats
- Sonnet To Mrs. Reynolds’s Cat poem – John Keats poems
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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).
Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943) is a renowned Canadian author and poet. He is best known for his novel “The English Patient,” which won the Booker Prize and was later adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. Ondaatje’s works often explore themes of identity, memory, and the impact of war. He has received numerous accolades for his contributions to literature and is considered a significant figure in contemporary Canadian literature.