For authorities whose hopes
are shaped by mercenaries?
Writers entrapped by
teatime fame and by
commuters’ comforts? Not for these
the paper nautilus
constructs her thin glass shell.
Giving her perishable
souvenir of hope, a dull
white outside and smooth-
edged inner surface
glossy as the sea, the watchful
maker of it guards it
day and night; she scarcely
eats until the eggs are hatched.
Buried eight-fold in her eight
arms, for she is in
a sense a devil-
fish, her glass ram’shorn-cradled freight
is hid but is not crushed;
as Hercules, bitten
by a crab loyal to the hydra,
was hindered to succeed,
the intensively
watched eggs coming from
the shell free it when they are freed,–
leaving its wasp-nest flaws
of white on white, and close-
laid Ionic chiton-folds
like the lines in the mane of
a Parthenon horse,
round which the arms had
wound themselves as if they knew love
is the only fortress
strong enough to trust to.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Алексей Жемчужников – Полевые цветы
- Владимир Луговской – Первый снег
- In The Seven Woods by William Butler Yeats
- An American by Rudyard Kipling
- Гавриил Державин – Покаяние
- Владимир Набоков – Скитальцы
- Алексей Толстой – Смеркалось, жаркий день бледнел неуловимо
- Степан Щипачев – День
- Владимир Маяковский – Вегетарианцы
- Ode To Apollo poem – John Keats poems
- English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. Bellona. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
- Damayante To Nala In The Hour Of Exile by Sarojini Naidu
- From The Woolworth Tower by Sara Teasdale
- To the Right Hon. The Earl of Halifax , with the Fable of the Two Springs by William Somervile
- Aftermath poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
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