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
- As Once The Winged Energy Of Delight by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ольга Высотская – Волны
- Шекспир – Как и любовь – Сонет 151
- The Fiddling Wood by Stephen Vincent Benet
- On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley
- The Rwose In The Dark by William Barnes
- Thomas Gray – Thomas Gray
- Natural Theology by Rudyard Kipling
- Desesperanto by Marilyn Hacker
- The Instructor by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Ладыженский – Христос Воскрес, скворцы поют
- Владимир Британишский – Первая послевоенная осень
- Mark The Concentrated Hazels That Enclose by William Wordsworth
- he_who_creates_re_creates_himself.html
- Reply to a Trimming Epistle, received from a Tailor by Robert Burns
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).
