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:
- Sonnet 125: Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy by William Shakespeare
- The Image Of Delight by William Ellery Leonard
- Владимир Маяковский – Новые силы в III Интернационале!.. (РОСТА №891)
- The Usurpation
- Иннокентий Анненский – Гармония
- Joy and Pleasure by William Henry Davies
- Living In Sin
- Николай Гумилев – Луна на море
- Maenad by Sylvia Plath
- Sculpture of Debris on the Waterfront by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Владимир Высоцкий – Парня спасём, парня в детдом
- The Ivy by William Barnes
- Across the Street from the Whitmore Home for Girls, 1949 by Rachel McKibbens
- Владимир Высоцкий – Космонавту Ю. Гагарину
- Ольга Седакова – Земля
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
