wade
through black jade.
Of the crow-blue mussel-shells, one keeps
adjusting the ash-heaps;
opening and shutting itself like
an
injured fan.
The barnacles which encrust the side
of the wave, cannot hide
there for the submerged shafts of the
sun,
split like spun
glass, move themselves with spotlight swiftness
into the crevices—
in and out, illuminating
the
turquoise sea
of bodies. The water drives a wedge
of iron throught the iron edge
of the cliff; whereupon the stars,
pink
rice-grains, ink-
bespattered jelly fish, crabs like green
lilies, and submarine
toadstools, slide each on the other.
All
external
marks of abuse are present on this
defiant edifice—
all the physical features of
ac-
cident—lack
of cornice, dynamite grooves, burns, and
hatchet strokes, these things stand
out on it; the chasm-side is
dead.
Repeated
evidence ahs proved that it can live
on what can not revive
its youth. The sea grows old in it.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Sonnet 82: I grant thou wert not married to my Muse by William Shakespeare
- Grass by Russell Edson
- Yosa Buson – Yosa Buson
- Кондратий Рылеев – Как солнце ни блестит и как оно ни светит
- Владимир Британишский – Дом (Время ведь с годами ведь)
- Spinster by Sylvia Plath
- FLORECER by Manolo Arriola
- Niagara by Vachel Lindsay
- Diya {original title is Greek, Delta-iota-psi-alpha} poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Война окончена… (РОСТА №898)
- Prologue to Rodin in Rime poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Олег Григорьев – Четверорукими ногами
- Ballade Of His Books poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Иван Киуру – Кот и жук
- Poetics poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
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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).
