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
- Облако в штанах – Владимир Маяковский: читать поэму онлайн, текст стихотворения полностью – Стихи Poetry Monster
- The Craftsman by Rudyard Kipling
- Shillin’ a Day by Rudyard Kipling
- Farewell To Italy poem – Alfred Austin
- Apples of Hesperides poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Вера Павлова – Утро вечера мудренее
- O Little Root of a Dream by Paul Celan
- days of quiet by Raj Arumugam
- Sonnet 69: Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 75: So are you to my thoughts as food to life by William Shakespeare
- Under A Portrait Of Jukowsky poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Sonnet 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget’st so long by William Shakespeare
- The Little Dell by William Allingham
- Torn Shades by Thomas Lux
- A New Song to an Old Tune by William Ernest Henley
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