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
A few random poems:
- Олег Григорьев – Дружба
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 26. Erin, Oh Erin. Томас Мур.
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Только на фронте
- Nanny’s Cow by William Barnes
- Владимир Маяковский – Нынче бар в России нет… (Главполитпросвет №37)
- Sonnet Ii
- Paradise Regained: The First Book poem – John Milton poems
- A Man Young And Old: V. The Empty Cup by William Butler Yeats
- The Commitment by Rob Leatherman Sr.
- Sonnet 70: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect by William Shakespeare
- Alexander E. Musset
- Огюст Барбье – Чимароза
- Ask Me by William Stafford
- Степан Щипачев – Шар земной
- Verbal Calisthenics by Sylvia Plath
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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