WATER LILLIES AND ADVICE
by PEGGY AYLSWORTH
Yellow, faithful in petals,
bouncing from intended green,
a surround, stemming toward the sun.
How the eye obeys its given
limits, as the curve of leaf
designs its own exactness.
What link informs another?
Beware the lays of magic,
Chaucer told his son, Lowys.
Consult the astrolabe when
rocks appear to disappear,
he said. The sun, the moon.
Their closeness to the crust caused
roiling tides that swallowed rock.
Lay sorcerers to rest, my son.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Demon And Beast by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Письмо к любимой Молчанова, брошенной им
- Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits by William Shakespeare
- Poetic Vision – Heaven’s Door
- A Cat Called Shan by Pamela Griffiths
- For Hans Carossa by Rainer Maria Rilke
- A Valentine’s Song by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ты холодна
- The Metropolitan Tower by Sara Teasdale
- Ольга Седакова – Как упавшую руку
- Олег Бундур – Дедушка воспитывает папу
- I Sing The Body Electric by Philip Levine
- My Friend, Come In These Rains — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- To A Soldier In Hospital by Winifred Mary Letts
- Владимир Маяковский – Спросили раз меня: “Вы любите ли НЭП?”
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
