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
- Epigram—Commissary Goldie’s Brains by Robert Burns
- “`Were I a Poet, I would dwell” poem – Alfred Austin
- The Pillar’d Geäte by William Barnes
- Михаил Кузмин – В гроте Венерином мы горим
- Sonnet To The Nile poem – John Keats poems
- Sorrow’s Importunity poem – Alfred Austin
- Paudeen by William Butler Yeats
- Виктор Кудлачев – Весна
- Tom’s Garland poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- And Then It Rained by Pamela Griffiths
- The Happy Days When I Wer Young by William Barnes
- Life by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Владимир Набоков – О, любовь, ты светла и крылата
- Khristna And His Flute
- The Jailer by Sylvia Plath
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