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:
- Show It At The Beach by Shel Silverstein
- On His Eightieth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Lulu by Manolo Arriola
- Insolent Storm Strikes At The Skull by Sylvia Plath
- Mae Marsh, Motion Picture Actress by Vachel Lindsay
- Olney Hymn 31: On The Death Of A Minister by William Cowper
- Ольга Седакова – Неужели, Мария, только рамы скрипят
- The Circus Animals’ Desertion by William Butler Yeats
- Moon, I hear you are moving away by Raj Arumugam
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий! Глупость беспартийную выкинь!.. (РОСТА)
- The Thraldom
- Spirit That Form’d This Scene. by Walt Whitman
- 9 Types of Lovers – The Twisted Version
- The Essay on Liberty by Abraham Cowley
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.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
