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 Bugler’s First Communion poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy
- Idyll by Siegfried Sassoon
- Федор Сологуб – В моей лампаде ясный свет
- Юрий Энтин – Слово про слово
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Hymn to Spiritual Desire. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Keepen Up O’ Chris’mas by William Barnes
- Now Finale to the Shore. by Walt Whitman
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Bigtime by Shel Silverstein
- Олег Григорьев – Григорьев Олег ел тыкв
- On Pilgrimage
- Orlando Furioso Canto 20 by Ludovico Ariosto
- The Daguerreotype by William Vaughn Moody
- The Affliction Of Margaret by William Wordsworth
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).
