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:
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Москва майская
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
- In Between The Strophes
- Poor Mailie’s Elegy by Robert Burns
- Ольга Берггольц – Песня о ленинградской матери
- The Railroad by William Barnes
- The Country Doctor by Will McKendree Carleton
- The Empty Hills by Yvor Winters
- Galahad In The Castle Of The Maidens by Sara Teasdale
- Ellen Irwin Or The Braes Of Kirtle by William Wordsworth
- The rainy Pleiads wester poem – A. E. Housman
- In The Chapel Of Rest by Steve Sant
- Engagements by Satish Verma
- Most Precious by R. L. Karlowsky
- Children Are Like Water by Robert Lloyd Jaffe
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
