sunrise
this
painted lady
i cannot take my eyes off
& by noon i am drunk
on her perfume
clutching
this wild bouquet
between my teeth
stumbling up
the aisle of spring
as if this all wasn’t new
not at all concerned
with
my
reputation
California’s Lost Coast
Copyright ©:
2009
A few random poems:
- Илона Грошева – Когда приходит Дима в парк
- The Poet as Hero by Siegfried Sassoon
- Birth Story by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Future Promise Letter by Stevens Cadet
- One of the Lives by W. S. Merwin
- The Hawk by William Butler Yeats
- Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power by William Shakespeare
- Manhattan Streets I Saunter’d, Pondering. by Walt Whitman
- Missile – A Tanka Poem
- Ольга Берггольц – Осень (Мне осень озёрного края)
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Robert Burns: Young Jamie, Pride Of A’ The Plain:
- Владимир Британишский – Карьеры лицеистов
- Николай Некрасов – Дни идут… всё так же воздух душен
- “Here have I learnt the little that I know” poem – Alfred Austin
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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
