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:
- If A Tree Could Wander by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Гавриил Державин – На выздоровление мецената
- Владимир Костров – Вот избушка
- I will Take an Egg Out of the Robin’s Nest. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Маяковский – О дряни
- The Rose And The Bee by Sara Teasdale
- Яков Полонский – После праздника
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о штангисте
- Gammony Gaÿ by William Barnes
- Василий Жуковский – Элизиум
- Dialogue Song—Philly and Willy by Robert Burns
- Ок Мельникова – Всё будет
- Анатолий Жигулин – Обвал
- A Divine Mistress by Thomas Carew
- Валерий Брюсов – Из Александрийской антологии. К Сапфо
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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
