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:
- Raise the head, child by Vinko Kalinić
- Gin by Philip Levine
- Sonnet 20 poem – John Milton poems
- On The Death Of J. C. An Infant by Phillis Wheatley
- To The Honourable T. H. Esq; On the Death Of His Daughter by Phillis Wheatley
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Дафнис подслушивает сов
- Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
- Омар Хайям – Будь камнем твердым я
- Song—Behold the Hour, the Boat, arrive by Robert Burns
- The Ballad of the King’s Jest by Rudyard Kipling
- Гавриил Державин – О удовольствии
- So tired by Tanisha Avarsekar
- The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief by Rudyard Kipling
- Виталий Ревякин – Самарский край
- The Wanderer
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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