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
- I Thank You, Mum by Raj Napal
- The Rainy Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- Adam Armour’s Prayer by Robert Burns
- Олег Бундур – Клубника созрела
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Home. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Psalm 81 poem – John Milton poems
- Apples of Hesperides poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Brother by Shashini Fernanadez
- Verses On A Young Lady (playing harpsichord, and singing) by Tobias Smollett
- Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending? poem – A. E. Housman
- Sonnet 03 poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – День и две ночи
- Paradise Lost: Book 10 poem – John Milton poems
- Rains Have Come poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- If I Had A Brontosaurus by Shel Silverstein
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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).
