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:
- Orlando Furioso Canto 1 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вы были у Беллы
- Conversation With My Heart by Russ Pergram
- Омар Хайям – Мы источник веселья, и скорби рудник
- Владимир Высоцкий – Веселая покойницкая
- Hail, Twilight, Sovereign Of One Peaceful Hour by William Wordsworth
- Let Me Tide Over by Vattacharja Chandan
- Ольга Берггольц – Ты в пустыню меня послала
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Truthful Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Заболоцкий – Зеленый луч
- The Warning by Robert Creeley
- Exeat by Stevie Smith
- A World So Different by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Алишер Навои – Моя безумная душа в обломках
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
- Malay Song
- Malaria
- Mahomed Akrams Appeal To The Stars
- Love Lightly
- Lost Delight
- Listen Beloved
- Lines By Taj Mahomed
- Less Than The Dust
- Lallji My Desire
- Lalila To The Ferengi Lover
- Kotri By The River
- Khristna And His Flute
- Khan Zadas Song On The Hillside
- Kashmiri Song
- Kashmiri Song By Juma
- In The Early Pearly Morning
- Illusion
- I Shall Forget
- I Arise And Go Down To The River
- Hira Singhs Farewell To Burmah
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
