Through your lens the sequoia swallowed me
like a dryad. The camera flashed & forgot.
I, on the other hand, must practice my absent-
mindedness, memory being awkward as a touch
that goes unloved. Lately your eyes have shut
down to a shade more durable than skin’s. I know you
love distance, how it smooths. You choose an aerial view,
the city angled to abstraction, while I go for the close
exposures: poorly-mounted countenances along Broadway,
the pigweed cracking each hardscrabble backlot.
It’s a matter of perspective: yours is to love me
from a block away & mine is to praise the grain-
iness that weaves expressively: your face.
                    1983, Dance Script with Electric Ballerina (University of Illinois Press)        
              Copyright ©: 
                    Alice Fulton        
        

A few random poems:
- You Are Mine by Pushpendra Singh Baghel
 - The Fountain by Sara Teasdale
 - Robert Burns: The Lament: Occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend’s Amour.
 - A Rainy Night poem – André Rostant poems
 - Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song) by Robert Burns
 - Ольга Берггольц – О, наверное, он не вернётся
 - Владимир Корнилов – Репертуар
 - I have fallen into unconsciousness by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
 - Владимир Степанов – Осы
 - Константин Бальмонт – Мы прячем, душим тонкой сетью лжи
 - Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand
 - Омар Хайям – Миг придёт, и смерть исторгнет жадно
 - Your Eyes by Omair Bhat
 - Николай Глазков – Движутся телеги и калеки
 - A Song by Thomas Carew
 
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
- Meg Merrilies poem – John Keats poems
 - Lines On The Mermaid Tavern poem – John Keats poems
 - Lines from Endymion poem – John Keats poems
 - Lines poem – John Keats poems
 - Last Sonnet poem – John Keats poems
 - La Belle Dame Sans Merci poem – John Keats poems
 - Keen, Fitful Gusts are Whisp’ring Here and There poem – John Keats poems
 - Isabella or The Pot of Basil poem – John Keats poems
 - John Keats – John Keats Poems
 - In Drear-Nighted December poem – John Keats poems
 - If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d poem – John Keats poems
 - Hyperion poem – John Keats poems
 - Hymn To Apollo poem – John Keats poems
 - How Many Bards Gild The Lapses Of Time! poem – John Keats poems
 - Hither, Hither, Love poem – John Keats poems
 - His Last Sonnet poem – John Keats poems
 - Happy Is England! I Could Be Content poem – John Keats poems
 - Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff poem – John Keats poems
 - Fragment of an Ode to Maia poem – John Keats poems
 - Fill For Me A Brimming Bowl poem – John Keats poems
 
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