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:
- Иван Барков – Вопрос без ответу
- Sonnet: Before He Went poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Чехарда в палате… (РОСТА №881)
- Омар Хайям – До того, как мы чашу судьбы изопьем
- Epigram—The True Loyal Natives by Robert Burns
- The Poetic Principle by Mark Olynyk
- I have outlived my own desires by Alexander Pushkin (Pouchkine)
- Владимир Британишский – Композитор
- Stretcher Case by Siegfried Sassoon
- Николай Языков – Е. Н. Мандрыкиной (В младой груди моей о вас воспоминанья)
- Иван Варавва – Кубань
- Merrow Down by Rudyard Kipling
- Dark House by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Высоцкий – Лукоморья больше нет
- A Child by William Ernest Henley
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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
