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
- On A Goldfinch, Starved To Death In His Cage by William Cowper
- Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
- Easter Communion poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Зинаида Александрова – Гибель Чапаева
- Ольга Берггольц – Осень (Мне осень озёрного края)
- Start Growing by Rixa White
- To My Friends poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Bound Home to Mount Song by Wang Wei
- A Form Of Women by Robert Creely
- Олег Сердобольский – Корова и божья коровка
- Sonnet 05 poem – John Milton poems
- The Children’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: Braving Angry Winter’s Storms:
- The Thousandth Man by Rudyard Kipling
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на иллюминацию 1747 года перед зимним домом
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).
