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
- Иван Дмитриев – Сверчки
- Bereavement by William Lisle Bowles
- Нина Воронель – Одержимые
- Epigram at Brownhill Inn by Robert Burns
- Who Learns My Lesson Complete? by Walt Whitman
- A Paumanok Picture. by Walt Whitman
- Barnacles by Sidney Lanier
- Astrophel and Stella: XCII by Sir Philip Sidney
- An April Fool poem – Alfred Austin
- Long-Legged Fly by William Butler Yeats
- Visor’d. by Walt Whitman
- Words You Said poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Сердобольский – Мошка Машка
- English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. The Triumph of Time. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
- Владимир Британишский – Били в армии, в школе, в столице, в селе
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).
