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
- Константин Бальмонт – Что достойно, что бесчестно
- Владимир Корнилов – Маросейка
- Parody on a Haiku by Issa by Monty Gilmer
- Гавриил Державин – Афинейскому витязю
- Neglecting the Word of God: A Foundational Cause of Lukewarmness
- William Gilmore Simms – William Gilmore Simms
- A COUNTRY LIFE:TO HIS BROTHER, MR THOMAS HERRICK by Robert Herrick
- Алишер Навои – Пустословя на минбаре
- Meaning of silence-ness.
- Leopard by Stanley Wilkin
- Night by Sidney Lanier
- Алишер Навои – Уже белеет голова
- The Bear, The Fire, And The Snow by Shel Silverstein
- Sonnet CXXXII by William Shakespeare
- Кондратий Рылеев – К Делии
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).
