I empty myself of the names of others. I empty my pockets.
I empty my shoes and leave them beside the road.
At night I turn back the clocks;
I open the family album and look at myself as a boy.
What good does it do? The hours have done their job.
I say my own name. I say goodbye.
The words follow each other downwind.
I love my wife but send her away.
My parents rise out of their thrones
into the milky rooms of clouds. How can I sing?
Time tells me what I am. I change and I am the same.
I empty myself of my life and my life remains.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- An Answer To The Rebus, By The Author Of These Poems by Phillis Wheatley
- Федор Сологуб – Словами горькими надменных отрицаний
- Владимир Вишневский – Как некстати или срыв спецоперации
- The Sea And The Skylark poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Homing by Satish Verma
- Iowa City: Early April by Robert Hass
- Heel & Toe To The End by William Carlos Williams
- Rosalie’s Good Eats Cafe by Shel Silverstein
- Как Муромец Илья когда-то
- Олег Бундур – Папа пристал
- A Girdle by William Strode
- Robert Burns: Inconstancy In Love:
- To His Mistress In Absence by Torquato Tasso
- Sonnet 152: In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn by William Shakespeare
- Ольга Седакова – Selva selvaggia
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).
