by Alissia Lyons
In white beds by white walls
a fresh candle flickers
as it rises and as it stalls
and the baby
turned to its side
a heart born on a sleeve
with no place to hide
and if there’s one thing
it doesn’t need
that’s another life to lead
no mother could simply walk by
for this was a child
with eyes of stone worn
against tides of change
and this child born to die
was never to wear away
and the mother transfixed
with white palms to clear glass
the baby lay still
fists clenched around thumbs
at peace, a mask already held well
yet surmass this small flame
that holds the one light
through falls
through triumphs
births, deaths
and endless lifetimes
the baby reaches to a mother
whose fingers already burn
a mind racing, thoughts chafing
for a detachment
she will never feel again
a new life consuming
old phases exhuming
stripping, ripping away every why
grieving it’s leaving
and in it’s blaze
a natal love, like that fire
lapping both their lives away
Copyright ©:
Alissia Lyons
A few random poems:
- Владимир Луговской – Ночной патруль
- On The Loss Of The “Royal George” by William Cowper
- Here, Sailor. by Walt Whitman
- Олег Бундур – Дневник
- Morning Poem #43 by Wanda Phipps
- Robert Burns: The Fete Champetre:
- A Fact, And An Imagination, Or, Canute And Alfred, On The Seashore by William Wordsworth
- The Mountain Tomb by William Butler Yeats
- Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be, as I am now by William Shakespeare
- In The Stone I Rooted
- Christmas Star by Walter William Safar
- The Princess: A Medley: Home they Brought her Warrior Dead poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Words by William Butler Yeats
- Doomes-Day: The Fifth Houre by William Alexander
- Новелла Матвеева – Мне кажется
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
- Occupy the Wall Street by Sunil Sharma
- Morale by Sunil Sharma
- Finding freedom from invisible bonds by Sunil Sharma
- Birds heavenly by Sunil Sharma
- Afternoon song by Sunil Sharma
- A daily prayer by a kid by Sunil Sharma
- A beach dawn by Sunil Sharma
- The Pretense of Gathering Pebbles by the Shore by Syed Kawsar Jamal
- The Magician by Syed Kawsar Jamal
- Sunday Morning by Susan King Saunders
- Sitting atop the mountain hill by Swami Aaron Thomas
- Shattered Dreams by SWARAJ PRASAD
- Romantic Hour by Suuk Simon Subinimah
- Rememberance of that Power by sylvan lightbourne
- Protest poem by Susan King Saunders
- Od’d(ode) to Whitey Bulger by Susan King Saunders
- Michelle Obama Tribute by Susan King Saunders
- Little Girl Dancing by Susan King Saunders
- Independent at Birth by Suuk Simon Subinimah
- I am not ashamed of myself by Swami Aaron Thomas
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
