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:
- Ballad Of The Skeletons poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Sonnet IV. How Many Bards Gild The Lapses Of Time! poem – John Keats poems
- Spanish Johnny by Willa Sibert Cather
- Sitting Beside The Very Street by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Lines Written In Dejection by William Butler Yeats
- Bottles Of Sunshine by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Распутие
- Анатолий Жигулин – Начало поэмы
- Green Notes by Mrunmayi Mandan
- The Village Garden poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- O Blush Not So! poem – John Keats poems
- Sparkles from The Wheel. by Walt Whitman
- Валерий Брюсов – К.А. Коровину (Душа твоя, быть может, ослепительней)
- The Sparrow Club by William Barnes
- Hidebound by Shaunna Harper
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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
