Self-Portrait
I resemble everyone
but myself, and sometimes see
in shop-windows
despite the well-known laws of optics.
the portrait of a stranger,
date unknown,
often signed in a corner
by my father.
- A. K. Ramanujan
I resemble everyone
but myself, and sometimes see
in shop-windows
despite the well-known laws of optics.
the portrait of a stranger,
date unknown,
often signed in a corner
by my father.
- A. K. Ramanujan
Reposted from
Peter Griffin
Share with us short (fits-in-one-skeet short) poems you love?
(Any language, but if you want to be kind to unilingual me, then a rough translation if the poem’s not in English, please?)
I’ll add some in this thread to start off.
(Any language, but if you want to be kind to unilingual me, then a rough translation if the poem’s not in English, please?)
I’ll add some in this thread to start off.
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