I am the unnoticed, the unnoticable man:
The man who sat on your right in the morning train:
The man who looked through like a windowpane:
The man who was the colour of the carriage, the colour of the mounting
Morning pipe smoke.
I am the man too busy with a living to live,
Too hurried and worried to see and smell and touch:
The man who is patient too long and obeys too much
And wishes too softly and seldom.

I am the man they call the nation’s backbone,
Who am boneless; playable castgut, pliable clay:
The Man they label Little lest one day
I dare to grow.

I am the rails on which the moment passes,
The megaphone for many words and voices:
I am the graph diagram,
Composite face.

I am the led, the easily-fed,
The tool, the not-quite-fool,
The would-be-safe-and-sound,
The uncomplaining, bound,
The dust fine-ground,
Stone-for-a-statue waveworn pebble-round

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Poems in English 

• The Old Revolutionary’s Room by Nijole Miliauskaite by Poetry In English
• Ode of Welcome by Oliver St. John Gogarty by Poetry In English
• O mother, O Merry by Nikunj Sharma by Poetry In English
• My Invisible Valentine by Nin Andrews by Poetry In English
• My first seen by Osman cisse Hanif by Poetry In English
• My Government Frustrates Me by Olaniyi Beloved Abimbola by Poetry In English
• Mother’s Love by Nin Andrews by Poetry In English
• Living with Cancer by Nin Andrews by Poetry In English
• Living in my Bliss by Nina Gabriel by Poetry In English
• Life and Love by Nithin Purple by Poetry In English
• Let’s pray the divine by Nikunj Sharma by Poetry In English
• Knoxville Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni by Poetry In English
• Journey Of Life by Nikhil Srinivas by Poetry In English
• Jacaranda by Norma Martiri by Poetry In English
• Inter-religion Wedding by Nisha Gopalakrishnan by Poetry In English
• If I Were a Tree by Norma Martiri by Poetry In English
• I was born with a cry by Nur Al-Alam by Poetry In English
• How…? by Nizar Sartawi by Poetry In English
• From: The Home We Will Never Live In That Place by Nijole Miliauskaite by Poetry In English
• Heat Wave by Norma Martiri by Poetry In English

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

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.

 

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