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
- Illusions by Mark R Slaughter
- Levitation
- The Princess: A Medley: Thy Voice is Heard poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A Roxbury Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Late, by Myself by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Bitterness by Philip Levine
- Another by Thomas Carew
- Огюст Барбье – Кола ди Риенци
- Inscription For A Moss-House In The Shrubbery At Weston by William Cowper
- Владимир Орлов – Ночной листок
- The Trouble with Snowmen by Roger McGough
- Goals – How to Get Everything You Want by Brian Tracy – Review
- Be’mi’ster by William Barnes
- I Thought I was not Alone. by Walt Whitman
- Федор Сологуб – В лунном озарении
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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).
