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
- In Defense of Santa Claus
- Upon a Lady’s Fall Over a Stile, Gotten by Running From Her Love by William Wycherley
- Astrophel and Stella: LXXI by Sir Philip Sidney
- Владимир Луговской – Повелитель бумаги
- Late Fragment by Raymond Carver
- Robert Burns: The Banks O’ Doon: Third Version
- Маяковский – Стоит баба с жопой метр на метр: стих, текст стихотворения Владимира Маяковского – Poetry Monster
- Song—Willie brew’d a Peck o’ Maut by Robert Burns
- Screw-Guns by Rudyard Kipling
- Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages by T. S. Eliot
- Алексей Толстой – Вновь растворилась дверь
- Zen-moment by Sunil Sharma
- Юлия Друнина – Два вечера
- Аля Кудряшева – Поперек
- Picture Puzzle Piece by Shel Silverstein
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).
