After the frenzied flutter of their nuptial flight,
Termites land on my bathroom floor.
The double wings now slicked back
Trail on the tiles
Like a monarch’s train.
Dionesia from the Bicol Region of the Philippines
Cries: Pieces!
Ma’am, I found three pieces!
Like chocolate or music.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Messalina poem – Alfred Austin
- For Sidney Bechet by Philip Larkin
- The End by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Jog-Trot Pair by Thomas Hardy
- English Poetry. Charles Lockhart. Epistle to a Friend, with a Copy of Burns’s Letters. Чарльз Локкарт. Послание другу при возвращении ему томиков стихов Бернса
- Владимир Маяковский – Новогодние поздравления (РОСТА №704)
- Memorial Tablet by Siegfried Sassoon
- At Last She Comes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Girl’s Song by William Butler Yeats
- Morning-Land by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Славянский вопрос-то решается просто
- Of course I love you by Sappho
- The Derelict by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Е. А. Карлгоф
- Lover’s Gifts XIX: It Is Written in the Book by Rabindranath Tagore
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).
