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:
- Friday’s Child by W H Auden
- Epitaph On H. Walmsley, Esq., by William Lisle Bowles
- Thrushes by Siegfried Sassoon
- Memorial Day For The War Dead by Yehuda Amichai
- The Night poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Grandeur Of Ghosts by Siegfried Sassoon
- An Opera House poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Waking In Winter by Sylvia Plath
- Fragment of Song—“My Jean!” by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast:
- Twas’ the Night Before Christmas and Santa got Drunk by Margaret Marie Hubbard
- The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Николай Языков – Элегия (Любовь, любовь! веселым днем)
- Николай Гумилев – Молитва мастеров
- Love and Folly by William Cullen Bryant
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
- Forty Years Later by Martin Willitts, Jr
- Life by Marvin Bell
- Farmers Market by Mary TallMountain
- Let Him Free by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Eternal Existence by Mark Miller
- Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand
- Et Le Marbre Creuse… by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Important thing’s in life by Martin Smith
- Images by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Illusions by Mark R Slaughter
- If Only by Mary Etta Metcalf
- I, or Someone Like Me by Marvin Bell
- He Said To by Marvin Bell
- Grumpy Old Man by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Giving Myself Up by Mark Strand
- Ghosts by Martina Reisz Newberry
- From The Long Sad Party by Mark Strand
- Forty Years Later by Martin Willitts, Jr
- Farmers Market by Mary TallMountain
- Eternal Existence by Mark Miller
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