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
- A Child’s Grace by Robert Herrick
- The Taste of Morning by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- As if a Phantom Caress’d Me. by Walt Whitman
- Олег Бундур – Я рисую картину
- Sonnet 12 poem – John Milton poems
- Epistle to Mrs. Scott of Wauchope House by Robert Burns
- The Window Overlooking The Harbour
- Inscriptions For A Seat In The Groves Of Coleorton by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Столп
- At the bottom by Vasil Slavov
- Harry Ploughman poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Ольга Берггольц – Письмо из Ленинграда
- Black Lake by Memphis Knight
- For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
- Ox Tamer, The. by Walt Whitman
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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).
