o the poverty of holidays, the sadness of holidays
the shining
windows
in the emptying street, wet
flags, torn and rent
by the wind, rustling leaves
beneath our feet
she opens the door: welcome
it just happens to be
her birthday
she leads us down a long corridor
into distant perspectives
into the past – glimmering
clearly
a straight
old woman (sweater
with darned elbows)
a piano
takes up half the room
photographs – father and mother, old
Vilnius intellectuals
piles of manuscripts
a bicycle
leans against a wall: yes, she still
rides, along the Neris
in the summer
cherished
beloved names on her lips
lives – complicated,
entangled, tragic
(I see: she sits
alone, in an empty room, the wind
blows out the candle in her hand)
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Владимир Британишский – У этой матери кормящей
- Astrophel and Stella: III by Sir Philip Sidney
- Ruth by William Wordsworth
- To Seem The Stranger Lies My Lot, My Life poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Dreamtime by Olivia Lewis
- Владимир Британишский – А Новый год мы встретили в лесу
- Olney Hymn 40: Peace After A Storm by William Cowper
- Ballad Of The Despairing Husband by Robert Creeley
- Inversnaid poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- When To The Attractions Of The Busy World by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Высоцкий – У меня было сорок фамилий
- Tears
- The Perch by Seamus Heaney
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы живём в большом селе Большие Вилы
- Woodcom’ Feast by William Barnes
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).
