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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Поляки-крестьяне, чтоб вольными быть…
- Since We Must Die poem – Alfred Austin
- On a Sea Fight, Which the Author was in, Betwixt the English and Dutch by William Wycherley
- Heedless O’ My Love by William Barnes
- Who Is This? by Rabindranath Tagore
- Валерий Брюсов – Гимн Афродите
- The Moon’s Truth (before the war) by Reena Ribalow
- The Childless Father by William Wordsworth
- Song of the Broad-Axe. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Снова печь барахлит, тут рублей не жалей
- Ольга Берггольц – Песня дочери
- Омар Хайям – Где вы, друзья! Где вольный ваш припев?
- Sonnet # 11 by Luis A. Estable
- The Riddle of the World poem – Alexander Pope
- William Stafford – William Stafford
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
- discovery.html
- day_dream.html
- cocoon_for_a_skeleton.html
- cinema_screen.html
- chaplin.html
- Cats by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
- black_on_black.html
- black_morning_lovesong.html
- birch_tree.html
- betrayal.html
- bells_pool_and_sleep.html
- attack_on_the_ad_man.html
- any_man_speaks.html
- woken_up_by_beautiful_dreams.html
- was_then.html
- vestiges.html
- un-chien-andalou-an-andalusian-dog.html
- the_poet_angels_who_came_to_dinner.html
- the_nomad039s_vision_ode_to_a_skylark_dressed_in_black.html
- the_man_that_poetry_made.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
