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
- Юлия Жадовская – Возврат весны
- Robert Burns: I’m O’er Young To Marry Yet:
- On Catullus by Walter Savage Landor
- When I am asleep and crumbling in the tomb by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster by Robert Burns
- The Statues by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: O For Ane An’ Twenty, Tam :
- Don’t Light The Candles by Yahia Al-Samawy
- To The Autumn Wind poem – Alfred Austin
- Magi by Sylvia Plath
- The Hyaenas by Rudyard Kipling
- Old People’s Home by W H Auden
- laugh to cry by Raj Arumugam
- The Breeze at Dawn by Jelaluddin Rumi
- Robert Burns: On Elphinstone’s Translation Of Martial’s Epigrams:
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
