A Gogyohka and the Forgotten Panopticon
by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
There, a quiet remembrance –
thin walls, colloquium
volte-face, inversions
the same mirrored shine and glass
so we sleep better
slipping naked under sheets
roster-retractions
and altercations
and always inward-looking
the way your pulse races up
percussive, a paper plane
forgive our gentle lapses
both of us paper tigers
among the horses
the quadriga shifting shades
Ofi Press Literary Magazine
Copyright ©:
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

A few random poems:
- How to Become an Inspiration
- Afternoon Rain in State Street poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Winter Wind by Vasil Slavov
- The Rum Tum Tugger by T. S. Eliot
- Remain! by Walter Savage Landor
- “`Know, Nature, like the cuckoo, laughs at law” poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Маяковский – Уймется Антанта… (РОСТА №571)
- The Drum-Stick Tree by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- Are You a Thinking Man? by Rifat Ilgaz
- Robert Burns: You’re Welcome, Willie Stewart:
- Эмиль Верхарн – Золото
- Unspoken by Satish Verma
- Федор Сологуб – Святых имен твоих не знаю
- Владимир Маяковский – Земля наша обильна
- There Can Never Be Another You by Miraj Patel
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works