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:
- A Secret by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Маяковский – Про гидру контрреволюции сегодня сказ (РОСТА № 79)
- Lines on Curll poem – Alexander Pope
- Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster by Robert Burns
- Apple-Blossoms by Will McKendree Carleton
- A Leaf for Hand in Hand. by Walt Whitman
- Николай Языков – Дума (Одну минуту, много две)
- English Poetry. George Eliot. How Lisa Loved the King. Джордж Элиот.
- When I live with fancy’ by Nithin Purple
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись 1 к статуе Петра Великого
- A Dream (English Translation) by Rabindranath Tagore
- Dublinesque by Philip Larkin
- A Misty Morning by Mary Etta Mietcalf
- A Drunken Man’s Praise Of Sobriety by William Butler Yeats
- Golgotha by Siegfried Sassoon
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
- A Song by Thomas Carew
- A prayer to the Wind by Thomas Carew
- A Divine Mistress by Thomas Carew
- A Cruel Mistress. by Thomas Carew
- Specula by Thomas Edward Brown
- Salve! by Thomas Edward Brown
- Risus Dei by Thomas Edward Brown
- Pain by Thomas Edward Brown
- Opifex by Thomas Edward Brown
- My Garden by Thomas Edward Brown
- Land, Ho! by Thomas Edward Brown
- Jessie by Thomas Edward Brown
- If Thou Could’st Empty All Thyself Of Self by Thomas Edward Brown
- Ibant Obscur? by Thomas Edward Brown
- I bended unto me a Bough by Thomas Edward Brown
- Dora by Thomas Edward Brown
- Disguises by Thomas Edward Brown
- Time of Roses by Thomas Hood
- Tim Turpin by Thomas Hood
- The World is with Me by Thomas Hood
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