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
- The Alchemist’s Petition by Vachel Lindsay
- Илона Грошева – Любовь две синички на ветке
- The Hip by William Somervile
- Missing Person by Vinita Agrawal
- Climbing poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Face Lift by Sylvia Plath
- Poetics poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Sonnet CXLIV by William Shakespeare
- Lo! Victress on the Peaks. by Walt Whitman
- To A Girl In A Garden by Sappho
- Impromtu On Ogareva poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Robert Burns: My Eppie Macnab:
- Illusions by Mark R Slaughter
- Новелла Матвеева – Двое (Баллада)
- Savantism. by Walt Whitman
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
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