Velimir Khlebnikov

Here you will find the Poem Grasshopper of poet Velimir Khlebnikov

Grasshopper

Wingletting with the golden scrawl
Of its finest sinews,
The grasshopper loaded its trailer-belly
With many coastal herbs and faiths.
 "Ping, ping, ping!" tra-lah-ed the zingzinger.
O, swanderful!
O, illuminate!