Say tomorrow doesn’t come.
Say the moon becomes an icy pit.
Say the sweet-gum tree is petrified.
Say the sun’s a foul black tire fire.
Say the owl’s eyes are pinpricks.
Say the raccoon’s a hot tar stain.
Say the shirt’s plastic ditch-litter.
Say the kitchen’s a cow’s corpse.
Say we never get to see it: bright
future, stuck like a bum star, never
coming close, never dazzling.
Say we never meet her. Never him.
Say we spend our last moments staring
at each other, hands knotted together,
clutching the dog, watching the sky burn.
Say, It doesn’t matter. Say, That would be
enough. Say you’d still want this: us alive,
right here, feeling lucky.
Copyright ©:
2013 Ada Limón
A few random poems:
- Anniversaries poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Николай Гумилев – Неоромантическая сказка
- The Sea-Wife by Rudyard Kipling
- Gray Dawn by Satish Verma
- Шекспир – Но не боюсь и смерть – Сонет 80
- Robert Burns: Stanzas On The Same Occasion [Prospect of Death]:
- My Heart’s In The Highlands by Robert Burns
- Know, Celia, Since Thou Art So Proud by Thomas Carew
- Владимир Маяковский – Добьем! (РОСТА №745)
- Ars Poetica
- Василий Жуковский – Бородинская годовщина
- Robert Burns: The Country Lass:
- A Passing Glimpse by Robert Frost
- Beguiling by Roger McGough
- Sorrow’s Importunity poem – Alfred Austin
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- The Land of the Exile by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Judge by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Journey by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Hero by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gift by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gardener XXXVIII: My Love, Once upon a Time by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gardener XXXIV: Do Not Go, My Love by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gardener XXVIII: Your Questioning Eyes by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gardener XXIV: Do Not Keep to Yourself by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gardener XXII: When She Passed by Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gardener XXI: Why Did He Choose by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gardener XX: Day After Day He Comes by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gardener XVI: Hands Cling to Eyes by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gardener XLVIII: Free Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gardener XLVI: You Left Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gardener XLV: To the Guests by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gardener XLIV: Reverend Sir, Forgive by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gardener XLIII: No, My Friends by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gardener XLII: O Mad, Superbly Drunk by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gardener XL: An Unbelieving Smile by Rabindranath Tagore
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
