was then
by A.C. Zenner
it was…
as yet…
not eaten…
that meal…
which tore…
and drew…
the breath…
of life…
from her…
and all…
she strove…
to be…
to him…
his crust…
too thick…
to cut…
with just…
her meager knife
Copyright ©: A.C. Zenner
A few random poems:
- Наум Коржавин – Поэзия не страсть, а власть
- Алексей Толстой – Рондо
- Say, Lad, Have You Things to Do? poem – A. E. Housman
- Илья Эренбург – О Москве
- Epistle to William Simson by Robert Burns
- Charity thou art a lie, by Stephen Crane
- Botanically by Satish Verma
- Doomes-Day: The Second Houre by William Alexander
- Drowning. Not Waving by P.J.Reed
- Sonnet 90: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now by William Shakespeare
- Epigram—Commissary Goldie’s Brains by Robert Burns
- In A Light Time by Philip Levine
- Runagate Runagate by Robert Hayden
- Владимир Высоцкий – И в Дубне, и на Таганке что-то ставят, что-то строят
- Don’t Worry by John Oxenham
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 Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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
