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:
- Sonnet 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – Обряды кому и на кой ляд целовальный обряд
- Владимир Маяковский – Забудем солдатчину!.. (РОСТА №425)
- To a Sky-Lark by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: The Captive Ribband:
- He Has Lived In Many Houses by Thomas Lux
- Владимир Высоцкий – У профессиональных игроков
- Robert Burns: Why, Why Tell The Lover: Fragment,
- Ярослав Смеляков – Вот опять ты мне вспомнилась, мама
- Огюст Барбье – Видимость
- Imbrium by Todd H. C. Fischer
- Annus Mirabilis by Philip Larkin
- “Célibataire” by Sylvia Plath
- Dane-Geld by Rudyard Kipling
- Amphion 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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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
