To Double Lock
by Pierre Reverdy
I am so far from the voices
From the festival’s distant murmur
The foaming mill wheel turns back
The sob of spring water ceases
The hour has painfully glided
Over the moon’s great beaches
And in the cramped warm spaces without a crevice
I sleep head upon elbow
In the calm desert within the lamp’s circle
Terrible time inhuman time
Hunted along muddy sidewalks
Far from the limpid amphitheatre that declines glasses
Far from the decanted song born of leisure
In a bitter tussle of laughter between the teeth
A faded sorrow quaking at your roots
I prefer death forgetfulness dignity
I am so far away when I contemplate all I love
End of the poem
15 random poems
- I turn my head by Vladimir Marku
- Новелла Матвеева – Смех Фавна
- Springfield Magical by Vachel Lindsay
- Adolescence by P. K. Page
- The Man Born to Farming by Wendell Berry
- Chanson D’Amour by Shaunna Harper
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Москва майская
- The Clasp by Sharon Olds
- Picture of Daniel in the Lion’s Den at Hamilton Palace by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй
- Вероника Тушнова – Мне говорят, нету такой любви
- The Hecatomb to his Mistress by John Cleveland
- Finis by Walter Savage Landor
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Ночной пилигрим
- Each small gleam was a voice, by Stephen Crane
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