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
- A Last Request poem – Alfred Austin
- Юнна Мориц – Трудно светиться и петь не легко
- The Voice of Robert Desnos by Robert Desnos
- Bucolics by Sylvia Plath
- O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art by William Wordsworth
- Others, I Am Not the First poem – A. E. Housman
- Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper by Robert Burns
- The Force Of Prayer, Or, The Founding Of Bolton, A Tradition by William Wordsworth
- Николай Языков – В. М. Княжевичу (Простите мне простое «ты»)
- Николай Языков – Водопад
- Федор Сологуб – Собака седого короля
- Busy Heart, The by Rupert Brooke
- The Novelist by W H Auden
- The Coquette by William Somervile
- At Delphi poem – Alfred Austin
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).
