by Alex Gross
What do you say when you
Are with people? You say you
Want to be alone. What do you say
When you are alone? You say you
Want to be with people.
I’ll tell you why that is. It’s because
You are never alone. Your thoughts
Are always there. Sometimes you
May welcome them, but other times
They scare you.
You remember things that you don’t
Want to. The less you want them there,
The more they stay. They torture you.
They infect your mind like a disease.
The more you tell them to go away,
The more they defy you.
They come in all forms. They’re words,
Or they’re pictures, maybe moving pictures.
The only sure-fire way to stop this virus, is
To leak a new one. This one must be pleasant.
Just like Peter Pan, you must think happy thoughts.
Alex Gross
Copyright ©:
2011 by Alex Gross
A few random poems:
- Федор Сологуб – Скупа Филис, но пыл мятежный
- Song—Ae fond Kiss by Robert Burns
- The Roses And The Mothers Cannot Choose by William Alexander
- Disabled by Wilfred Owen
- Василий Тредиаковский – Леший и мужик
- Михаил Кузмин – Запел петух, таинственный предвестник
- Birdsong by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Seed Market by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Failure by Rupert Brooke
- Николай Некрасов – Внимая ужасам войны
- Владимир Степанов – В лесу осиновом
- At Night poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Immoral Laboratories
- Robert Burns: Whistle, And I’ll Come To You, My Lad:
- Imitation Of Spenser poem – John Keats poems
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
- Failure by Rupert Brooke
- Dust by Rupert Brooke
- Doubts by Rupert Brooke
- Dining-Room Tea by Rupert Brooke
- Desertion by Rupert Brooke
- Dead Men’s Love by Rupert Brooke
- Day That I Have Loved by Rupert Brooke
- Day And Night by Rupert Brooke
- Dawn by Rupert Brooke
- Clouds by Rupert Brooke
- Choriambics — II by Rupert Brooke
- Choriambics — I by Rupert Brooke
- Charm, The by Rupert Brooke
- Busy Heart, The by Rupert Brooke
- Blue Evening by Rupert Brooke
- Beauty and Beauty by Rupert Brooke
- Ante Aram by Rupert Brooke
- And love has changed to kindliness by Rupert Brooke
- A Memory by Rupert Brooke
- A Letter to a Live Poet by Rupert Brooke
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
