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:
- Ольга Ермолаева – Барственный Шехтель все ирисы лепит на фриз
- The Dawn by William Butler Yeats
- Shattered Dreams by SWARAJ PRASAD
- A Royal Home-Coming poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Набоков – Из мира уползли, и ноют на луне
- Олег Бундур – Где живут мысли
- Омар Хайям – Небо кушак, что облек изнуренный мой стан
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Олег Бундур – Семейный совет
- I Call That True Love by Shel Silverstein
- Persephone, Falling by Rita Dove
- Must Work by Steve Downes
- A Man Young And Old: X. His Wildness by William Butler Yeats
- Marks Of Disrespect by Graham Rowlands
- One Ran Before by Yvor Winters
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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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
