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
- Epigram on Dr. Babington’s looks by Robert Burns
- Earthy Anecdote by Wallace Stevens
- Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 2 by Robert Burns
- Иннокентий Анненский – Листы
- Abba Thule’s Lament For His Son Prince Le Boo by William Lisle Bowles
- Listen Beloved
- Омар Хайям – Мой друг, о завтрашнем заботиться не след
- Федор Сологуб – Знаю знанием последним
- Euclid by Vachel Lindsay
- And their feet move by Sappho
- Robert Burns: The Flowery Banks Of Cree:
- The Bard by William Gilmore Simms
- Олег Сердобольский – Во дворе
- A Dialogue Of Self And Soul by William Butler Yeats
- Against A Sickness To The Female Double Principle God
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).
