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The Chase — A letter to contemporaries
The Chase — A letter to contemporaries
I.
Martin Smallridge
Mar 3
The Reserve
The Reserve
O silence… let the departed rest, unsaid, here is the whisper… and there’s a pale stag in rut, a dream half-fed, unaware, transgressing the…
Martin Smallridge
Feb 20
THRUSH ON A BARRICADE
THRUSH ON A BARRICADE
In a coil, my mind, a delicate embryo’s cradle, I thread through the street’s snares, a poetic wade, In squares, flowered beds, and gardens…
Martin Smallridge
Feb 15
A STREAK OF LIGHT
A STREAK OF LIGHT
We ventured back, my loyal hound and I, from the edge of shadows black, where, like a serpent sly, the light did twist and ply, of the…
Martin Smallridge
Feb 19
All in one gulp
All in one gulp
Freedom is said to reside where no man dwells, it’s dull, lame, sore and ugly - to a point of excess.
Martin Smallridge
Jun 1, 2022
The Epitaph
The Epitaph
By Grażyna Tatarska (in Martin Smallridge interpretation, translated from polish)
Martin Smallridge
Oct 19, 2021
The Light
The Light
We’re back…
Martin Smallridge
Oct 19, 2021
Gazing up ahead, what see you?
Gazing up ahead, what see you?
By Bogusław Michalec (in Martin Smallridge interpretation, translated from polish)
Martin Smallridge
Oct 19, 2021
So what if consciousness doesn’t want to remain sober?
So what if consciousness doesn’t want to remain sober?
I happen to write poems. Sometimes I even let someone reading them. Yet I do not know whether it is right. Often, after a careful reading…
Martin Smallridge
May 14, 2021
“Polyphony of life” on writer’s strive towards unusual
“Polyphony of life” on writer’s strive towards unusual
Our guest for this expose is a young and talented writer Dusan Pejakovic, who is increasingly conquering the narrowly built upper echelons…
Martin Smallridge
Mar 4, 2021
A SPECTER
A SPECTER
Mornings tend to be cold cautious cat stays away from the cornice windows steam and innocent trees are redden by autumn leafs
Martin Smallridge
Mar 2, 2021
Two poems from the outer space of life
Two poems from the outer space of life
in Marcin’s Malek interpretation
Martin Smallridge
Feb 24, 2021
Three poems of future-past
Three poems of future-past
Interpretation of Lothar Herbst poems by Marcin Malek
Martin Smallridge
Feb 5, 2021
METAMORPHOSIS
METAMORPHOSIS
Here where sky leans over the well gazing into the surface of rings like a stork morn is painting ponceaus over the clouds threading with…
Martin Smallridge
Feb 5, 2021
Three poems on the edge of reality
Three poems on the edge of reality
Józef Czechowicz (15 March 1903–9 September 1939) was an avant-garde Polish poet. Recognized as a lonesome, nostalgic and catastrophic…
Martin Smallridge
Feb 3, 2021
And yet right there
And yet right there
As always since the earliest words dot after dot we aim the first row
Martin Smallridge
Feb 1, 2021
Yūgen
Yūgen
Deep into a gloom and doom of a restless night
D.P.
Jan 29, 2021
“Sur le pont d’Avignion”. Sniper’s bullet took his future away.
“Sur le pont d’Avignion”. Sniper’s bullet took his future away.
On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński
Martin Smallridge
Jan 28, 2021
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