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
- Be With Those Who Help Your Being by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Олег Бундур – Сон
- Upon A Dying Lady by William Butler Yeats
- The Galley-Slave by Rudyard Kipling
- Wishes by Satish Verma
- Федор Сологуб – Певице
- The Recall by Rabindranath Tagore
- Knoxville Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni
- Yoga and Love – Part I
- La Regina Avrillouse poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Baptistry
- Solomon To Sheba by William Butler Yeats
- Song—Stay my Charmer by Robert Burns
- The Haunted House by Thomas Hood
- Inscription to Chloris by Robert Burns
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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.