My room’s shaped like a cage the sun
Puts his arm right through the window
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Apollinaire, imagery, surreal, translation
My room’s shaped like a cage the sun
Puts his arm right through the window
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Apollinaire, imagery, surreal, translation
Extinguish my eyes, I’ll go on seeing you.
Seal my ears, I’ll go on hearing you.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: imagery, love poetry, mystic, Rainer Maria Rilke, religion, translation
The handful of time that I am charily granted
Will likewise pass, to oblivion duly apprenticed.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: death, dentist, philosophy, Phyllis McGinley, time, unsettling