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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Советская азбука (Железо куй, пока горячее…)
- The Country Doctor by Will McKendree Carleton
- Dawn by Rupert Brooke
- A New Song to an Old Tune by William Ernest Henley
- Repentance poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
- Как не бывает утро без рассвета
- Владимир Высоцкий – Тюменская нефть
- Endless Time by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ольга Берггольц – Песня о ленинградской матери
- Валерий Брюсов – Идут года. Но с прежней страстью
- Robert Burns: Verses To Clarinda: Sent with a Pair of Wine-Glasses.
- Огюст Барбье – Ни кротостью, ни негой ясной
- Presentiment poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Morning Walk
- What would I do without this world by Samuel Beckett
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
- Yasmini
- Yasin Khan
- Written In Cananore
- Wings
- When Love Is Over
- Verses
- Verses Faiz Ulla
- Verse By Taj Mahomed
- Vayu The Wind
- Valgovinds Song In The Spring
- Valgovinds Boat Song
- Unforgotten
- Unanswered
- Two Songs By Sitara Of Kashmir
- To The Unattainable
- To The Unattainable Lament Of Mahomed Akram
- To The Hills
- To M C N
- To Aziz Song Of Mahomed Akram
- Till I Wake
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
