Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
A Poem Beginning With A Line From Pindar
IThe light foot hears you and the brightness beginsgod-step at the margins of thought, quick adulterous tread at the heart.Who is it that goes..
© Robert Duncan
Poetry, A Natural Thing
Neither our vices nor our virtuesfurther the poem. “They came up and diedjust like they do every year on the rocks.” The poemfeeds..
© Robert Duncan
Summer
When summer in the mountains gains its peak,When gaily blooming flowers begin to fade,When nomads from the sunshine refuge seekBeside a rapid river..
© Abai Qūnanbaev
Black Of My Eye
Black of my eyeFrame of my mindDrink never dryLove of my LifeParting is winter, your absence is sorrowI wish to stay until the morrowBetween your..
© Abai Qūnanbaev
Through Windless Night The Glinting Moon
Through windless night the glinting moonIlluminates in flowing wavesThe village nestled in the valeWhere crests the overflowing streamThe..
© Abai Qūnanbaev