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:
- Эмиль Верхарн – Восстание
- Огюст Барбье – Мельпомена
- True Love by Robert Penn Warren
- A Celebration by William Carlos Williams
- Вероника Тушнова – Я поняла, ты не хотел мне зла
- Leszko The Bastard poem – Alfred Austin
- Жан де Лафонтен – Воля и Неволя
- Damned by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Strong Mercy by Rabindranath Tagore
- Peace Or Glory
- Владимир Высоцкий – Неужто здесь сошёлся клином свет
- I the People poem – Alice Notley
- Epigram—The True Loyal Natives by Robert Burns
- Михаил Лермонтов – Баллада (Куда так проворно, жидовка младая)
- Анатолий Жигулин – Дорога
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
- Василий Жуковский – Элизиум
- Василий Жуковский – Дружба
- Василий Жуковский – На смерть Андрея Тургенева
- Василий Жуковский – На первое отречение от престола Бонапарте
- Василий Жуковский – Мщение
- Василий Жуковский – Моя богиня
- Василий Жуковский – Море
- Василий Жуковский – Могущество, слава и благоденствие России
- Василий Жуковский – Младенец: Стих, который легко учится, 28 строк – Стихотворения Жуковского на Poetry Monster
- Василий Жуковский – Мина
- Василий Жуковский – Тоска по милом
- Василий Жуковский – Торжество победителей
- Василий Жуковский – Теснятся все к тебе во храм
- Василий Жуковский – Там небеса и воды ясны
- Василий Жуковский – Светлане
- Василий Жуковский – Суд Божий над епископом
- Вера Павлова – Праздник после праздника
- Вера Павлова – Попытка не пытка
- Вера Павлова – Поколенье, лишённое почерка и походки
- Вера Павлова – Покамест я всем детям тётя
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
