If external action is effete
and rhyme is outmoded,
I shall revert to you,
Habakkuk, as when in a Bible class
the teacher was speaking of unrhymed verse.
He said; and I think I repeat his exact words;
“Hebrew poetry is prose
with a sort of heightened consciousness.” Ecstasy affords
the occasion and expediency determines the form.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Huntsmen by Walter de la Mare
- last words to the moon by Raj Arumugam
- NIGHT RAID by Satish Verma
- Song—Behold the Hour, the Boat, arrive by Robert Burns
- Алексей Жемчужников – За днями ненастными с темными тучами
- I Do Not Speak by Stevie Smith
- Михаил Кузмин – Вы белое бургундское вино
- Огюст Барбье – Шекспир
- Иван Коневской – В небывалое
- Michael Robartes And The Dancer by William Butler Yeats
- Sonnet 6: Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface by William Shakespeare
- Гавриил Державин – Жан Расин. Рассказ Терамена
- Clashes by Ndue Ukaj
- 白色四月
- Flowers by Thomas Hood
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).
