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:
- A Soldier’s Song by Stephenie Tucker
- Snowbanks North of the House by Robert Bly
- To S.M., A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works by Phillis Wheatley
- A dragonfly that committed suicide by Preeth Nambiar
- He Said To by Marvin Bell
- Анатолий Жигулин – Дальние предки
- Гавриил Державин – Философы, пьяный и трезвый
- Вера Павлова – В ранец тетрадки собраны
- At Daybreak by Siegfried Sassoon
- Soul by Malkia Charlee NoCry
- The Beekeeper’s Daughter by Sylvia Plath
- Николай Заболоцкий – Кто мне откликнулся в чаще лесной
- Жан де Лафонтен – Мужчина средних лет и его две Возлюбленные
- Robert Burns: Caledonia -A Ballad :
- Church Going by Philip Larkin
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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
