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:
- A Walk After Dark by W H Auden
- On The Death Of Damon. (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- The Gate by Marie Howe
- Botanically by Satish Verma
- Sonnet (IX) : Flesh o flesh ! The momentous , the mortal , the doomed by Neelam Sinha
- Robert Burns: Epistle To The Rev. John M’math: Inclosing A Copy Of “Holy Willie’s Prayer,” Which He Had Requested
- A New Year’s Gift by William Strode
- Remembrance by Maya Angelou
- Character Of Charles Brown poem – John Keats poems
- Convalescence poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Wren’s Nest by William Wordsworth
- Picture Puzzle Piece by Shel Silverstein
- Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar by T. S. Eliot
- Home Burial by Robert Frost
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Гроза
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 Little Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Little Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Lady poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Lady poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Japanese Wood-Carving poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Japanese Wood-Carving poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Gift poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Gift poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Fixed Idea poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Fixed Idea poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Fairy Tale poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Fairy Tale poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Coloured Print by Shokei poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Coloured Print by Shokei poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Blockhead poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Blockhead poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Ballad of Footmen poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Ballad of Footmen poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- 1777 poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- 1777 poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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
