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
- Missile – A Tanka Poem
- August 1968 by W H Auden
- Олег Григорьев – Пьет оса кисель из чашки
- Иван Варавва – Соловей на веточке
- Faith and Faiths by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Sonnet # 17 by Luis A. Estable
- Владимир Маяковский – С винтовкой, но без знания – нет побед (РОСТА № 115)
- Sonnet Viii
- Gravity Suspended
- Before, Behind, And Beyond poem – Alfred Austin
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Люблю я сельский мой приют
- Inscription For A Stone Erected At The Sowing Of A Grove Of Oaks At Chillington, Anno 1790 by William Cowper
- An Old Man’s Thought of School. by Walt Whitman
- A Dream by William Allingham
- The Lady And The Earthenware Head by Sylvia Plath
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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).
