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 Pretense of Gathering Pebbles by the Shore by Syed Kawsar Jamal
- Epilogue by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Прометей
- Shepherd And Goatherd by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: The Battle Of Sherramuir:
- Fancy Dress by Siegfried Sassoon
- Golden Eangle
- you witness my dying by Raj Arumugam
- Николай Некрасов – Я посягну на неприличность
- Will the SEZ Act Boost Exports?
- A Dish Of Peaches In Russia by Wallace Stevens
- Fragment – Wee Willie Gray (Song) by Robert Burns
- Ольга Берггольц – Песня о ленинградской матери
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 99. ’Twas One of Those Dreams. Томас Мур.
- Стефан Малларме – Вздох
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
- The Redeemer by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Rear-Guard by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Poet as Hero by Siegfried Sassoon
- The One-Legged Man by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Old Huntsman by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Last Meeting by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Kiss by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Investiture by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Imperfect Lover by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Heritage by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Hawthorn Tree by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Goldsmith by Siegfried Sassoon
- The General by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Fathers by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Effect by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Dug-Out by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Dreamers by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Dream by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Dragon & The Undying by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Death-Bed by Siegfried Sassoon
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
