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:
- To a Sky-Lark by William Wordsworth
- Gentlmen-Rankers by Rudyard Kipling
- The Closet by Russell Edson
- Epistle II: To A Lady (Of the Characters of Women) poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Love And Death by Sara Teasdale
- Aerialist by Sylvia Plath
- White and Green poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Pastiche For Eve by Weldon Kees
- Олег Сердобольский – У сосульки льет из носа
- Омар Хайям – Неправ, кто думает, что бог неумолим
- Валерий Брюсов – Голос города (Ру-ру, ру-ру, трах, рк-ру-ру)
- O my faithful by Priyanka Tungana
- Шекспир – Разлука сердце делит пополам – Сонет 39
- The Lads in Their Hundreds poem – A. E. Housman
- Владимир Набоков – Еще безмолвствую и крепну я в тиши
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-infernal-regions.html
- honeycomb.html
- Dark Matter by Aaron Baker
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- Not Love Perhaps
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
- houses.html
- flight_of_stairs.html
- epitaph_on_a_disturber_of_his_times.html
- Epitaph for Our Children
- empty_room.html
- earthfast.html
- don_juan.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
