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 – Внимательное отношение к взяточникам
- The Harvest Bow by Seamus Heaney
- Федор Сологуб – Волна морская – веселый шум
- Torn Shades by Thomas Lux
- Sonnet 81: Or I shall live your epitaph to make by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: Epigram At Brownhill Inn:
- Song. Mediocrity in love rejected. by Thomas Carew
- Mowing by Robert Frost
- Владимир Высоцкий – И душа, и голова, кажись, болит
- Parody on a Haiku by Issa by Monty Gilmer
- Desire for You by Seema Gupta
- Drugs Made Pauline Vague by Stevie Smith
- The Arrivals by Sharon Olds
- OPTIONS by Satish Verma
- Men by Maya Angelou
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
- The Jungle Flower
- The Hut
- The Hospital On The Shore
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Garden By The Bridge
- The First Wife
- The First Lover
- The Dying Prince
- The Convert
- The Cactus
- The Cactus Thicket
- The Bride
- The Aloe
- Syed Amir
- Surface Rights
- Surf Song
- Sunstroke
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
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
