Man stomping over my bed in boots
carrying a large bronze church bell
which you occasionally drop:
gross man with iron heels
who drags coffins to and fro at four in the morning,
who hammers on scaffolding all night long,
who entertains sumo wrestlers and fat acrobats–
I pass you on the steps, we smile and nod.
Rage swells in me like gas.
Now rage too keeps me awake.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- 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:
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- Ирина Гурина – Как пчёлы чуть не поссорились
- Ольга Берггольц – Лучший город
- Ольга Седакова – Дикий шиповник
- The Bells Ov Alderburnham by William Barnes
- Владимир Луговской – Пепел
- Николай Гумилев – Лиловый цветок
- The Travail Of Passion by William Butler Yeats
- Elixer Vitæ poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Picture by Nijole Miliauskaite
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In June. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Наум Коржавин – К моему двадцатипятилетию
- A Do’set Sale by William Barnes
- Inscriptions In The Ground Of Coleorton, The Seat Of Sir George Beaumont, Bart., Leicestershire by William Wordsworth
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).
