Your Poems on My Patio
by Martina Reisz Newberry
for Djelloul Marbrook
The mountains are perfect
this morning so I re-read
your perfect poems.
Knit two, purl three,
knit two, purl two
and there on the page
is a scarf in hearty woolen
adverbs and adjectives.
I would do nearly anything
to know that someone
lingered over my images
as I do yours and
I would do it twice to find
you’d borrowed
one of my phrases.
You must know that
your poems, so beautiful they
are treacherous, paralyze my pen.
Oh, I realize this isn’t
an appropriate way
to show gratitude, nor is it
an answer to my reflection
in the cracked mirror
of my own regrets.
This morning, my friend,
I found autumn
and the sea,
and terror and love
and wonder and pain
and such enviable
nourishment
that I can never forgive you.
Yes, I am tired,
and even the surreal sky,
even the spirit-filled mountains
don’t rouse me to action.
I read instead—read
Your poems and sip at
a Mimosa because it’s
never too early for champagne
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Creative Self Sabotage – 5 Favourite Sabotage Techniques Of Creative Artists & How To Avoid Them
- Stans Puer ad Mensam by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Song—She’s Fair and Fause by Robert Burns
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Заяц-врун
- Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none by William Shakespeare
- Meaken Up A Miff by William Barnes
- The Apple Trees at Olema by Robert Hass
- Confession (to Alina Osipova, 1826) poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Faun by Sylvia Plath
- “Why should I, from this long and losing strife ” poem – Alfred Austin
- November by Thomas Hood
- Владимир Маяковский – Про Тита и Ваньку
- Ruined World by Michael Yuan
- This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful. by Walt Whitman
- Вера Павлова – Праздник после праздника
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).
