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
- La Vita Nuova by Weldon Kees
- Юлия Друнина – Запас прочности
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- I Belong There by Mahmoud Darwish
- Youth
- The Hidden Law by W H Auden
- Love Of Life poem – Alfred Austin
- This Evening Also by Paul Celan
- The Double Vision Of Michael Robartes by William Butler Yeats
- The Sleepers by Walt Whitman
- I had a little nut-tree, by Roald Dahl
- The Power of Armies is a Visible Thing by William Wordsworth
- On The Wedding Of The Aeronaut poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Fall by Satish Verma
- Eclogue X by Virgil
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).
