by Ainne Frances dela Cruz
In my old age,
my parents have decided
to give me space:
a room of my own
complete with a bed
and a view of the
woods beside our house.
As the body grows older
it grows inflexible, it seems
either that
or my bed is too hard
I can’t sleep nights.
My muscles involuntarily
curve to an imaginary space
you occupied
lifetimes ago.
I feel the strain of living
whenever my cheek touches
bedsheets, made rough-smooth
by the spin-dry cycle of
the washing-machine downstairs.
I open my windows
to the elements.
I laugh at the face
of cyclones.
There is no reason
to stay.
Why will I
miss this place?
THE LAB 7TH EDITION. Summer 2011, Cultural Arts & Theatre Society
Copyright ©:
2011
A few random poems:
- The Best Friend by William Henry Davies
- The Blessed Virgin Compared To The Air We Breathe poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Robert Burns: Extemporaneous Effusion: On being appointed to an Excise division.
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на иллюминацию 1747 года перед зимним домом
- Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art poem – John Keats poems
- Erotic comics by Hanz Kovacq, porn comic books by known illustrators – continued
- Forgiveness by Zaklina (Jacqueline) Filipova- Svekjarovska
- Mammary Tunes by Mark R Slaughter
- Sonnet Iv
- Syrinx poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Psalm 80 poem – John Milton poems
- A Net to Snare the Moonlight by Vachel Lindsay
- The Snowman on the Moor by Sylvia Plath
- Homecoming by Robert Lowell
- A Leaf for Hand in Hand. by Walt Whitman
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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
