They are so beautiful, and so very young
they seem almost to glitter with perfection,
these creatures that I briefly move among.
I never get to stay with them for long,
but even so, I view them with affection:
they are so beautiful, and so very young.
Poised or clumsy, placid or high-strung,
they’re expert in the art of introspection,
these creatures that I briefly move among—
And if their words don’t quite trip off the tongue
consistently, with just the right inflection,
they remain beautiful. And very young.
Still, I have to tell myself it’s wrong
to think of them as anything but fiction,
these creatures that I briefly move among—
Because, like me, they’re traveling headlong
in that familiar, vertical direction
that coarsens beautiful, blackmails young—
the two delusions we all move among.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Listening To Rwanda Genocide by Satish Verma
- Robert Burns: Braw Lads O’ Galla Water:
- Николай Языков – С. П. Шевыреву (Тебе хвала, и честь, и слава)
- Николай Заболоцкий – Гурзуф ночью
- At Mass by Vachel Lindsay
- Diya {original title is Greek, Delta-iota-psi-alpha} poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Ольга Седакова – Когда говорю я: помилуй
- Вера Павлова – Вопрос ребра
- Here I would have loved you by Luz del Alba Nicola
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы вращаем Землю
- Олег Бундур – Если умываться лень
- Карл Сэндберг – Анекдот о цикуте для двух афинян
- Федор Сологуб – В мантии серой
- Facing West from California’s Shores. by Walt Whitman
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
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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).
