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
- Robert Burns: My Bonie Mary:
- Sonnet LX by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Степанов – Что мы Родиной зовём
- Валерий Брюсов – Из-за облака скользящий
- On Returning To England poem – Alfred Austin
- Ок Мельникова – Обет молчания
- Medusa by Sylvia Plath
- Forty Years Later by Martin Willitts, Jr
- 決定
- Олег Бундур – Заповедная жизнь
- Eden in Winter by Vachel Lindsay
- African Artists’ Painting Inspiration
- Ольга Седакова – Из песни Данте
- Sonnet. Written On A Blank Space At The End Of Chaucer’s Tale Of ‘The Floure And The Lefe’ poem – John Keats poems
- Mother by Sachin Yadav (Pen Name: Rahul Nachhiketa)
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).
