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:
- “Could I but leave men wiser by my song ” poem – Alfred Austin
- Sonnet to the Nightingale poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Люблю тебя
- Olney Hymn 59: A Living And A Dead Faith by William Cowper
- Song of the Exposition. by Walt Whitman
- Олег Григорьев – Дождь
- The Lonely Climber: A Seed Poem by Mike Yuan
- Алексей Жемчужников – Письмо к юноше о ничтожности
- The Alfresco Moment by Russell Edson
- Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain by William Shakespeare
- The Dying Prince
- Николай Языков – С. П. Шевыреву (Тебе хвала, и честь, и слава)
- Song—Auld Rob Morris by Robert Burns
- Гавриил Державин – Песенка
- You Ask Me, Why, Tho’ Ill at Ease poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Request
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Prayer
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- On The City Wall
- On Pilgrimage
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Oh Masters
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- No Rival Like The Past
- Nay Not To Night
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- My Desire
- Middle Age
- Memory
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
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
