I do not know for how long
I stood in the fork of the drum-stick tree
Gazing long and hard at the school as it lay among the ruins of my long lost life
There was not one living soul
Only ghosts that floated about
Defying earth’s gravity
What does it mean to live together
As the teacher explained if not only to get her?
Come closer my friend, I do not eat strangers, hanging upside down
After all, you who do not know me
Might mistake me for the devil
All dark and purple living in sordid fire of hell
Watch as I extinguish the old school and its thatched sheds
Hanging on this fork of the old drum-stick tree
The miracle of being able to cast and create at will
Time and tide and past and future
Standing on the fork of the old near-dead drum-stick tree, with a wave of my hand,
A child and man at the same time. Not dead, apparently, yet.
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*The Vetala, a powerful but usually evil spirit is supposed to take rest hanging upside down on the branches of the drum-stick tree—old folk belief
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Seven Watchmen by Rudyard Kipling
- Исикава Такубоку – Дом
- Николай Карамзин – Две песни
- Words by William Butler Yeats
- Black Pine Tree In An Orange Light by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: The Banks Of The Devon:
- Robert Burns: A Dream: Thoughts, words, and deeds, the Statute blames with reason; But surely Dreams were ne’er indicted Treason. On reading, in the public papers, the Laureate’s Ode, with the other parade of June 4th, 1786, the Author was no sooner dropt asleep, than he imagined himself transported to the Birth-day Levee: and, in his dreaming fancy, made the following Address:
- A Soft Day by Winifred Mary Letts
- The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden
- Let A Florid Music Praise by W H Auden
- Cyprian, in my dream by Sappho
- Альфред де Мюссе – Прости
- The Legatee poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Two Terrors poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- You must once
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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).
