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:
- They won’t Know by Rifat Ilgaz
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XXIX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Atavism by William Stafford
- Вероника Тушнова – Знаешь ли ты, что такое горе
- I have no complaint by Sappho
- Why?
- Олег Бундур – Копуша
- The Mortal One by Sharon Olds
- I Have a Fire for You in my Mouth by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- It’s No Use Raising A Shout by W H Auden
- This Will Not Win Him by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- An Epigram From Homer by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: This Is No My Ain Lassie:
- Наум Коржавин – Двадцатые годы
- Gazing at the Sacred Peak by Tu Fu
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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
