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:
- Anecdote Of Canna by Wallace Stevens
- Олег Сердобольский – Зимний кот
- How Samson Bore Away the Gates of Gaza by Vachel Lindsay
- Epistle II: To A Lady (Of the Characters of Women) poem – Alexander Pope
- My Father was a Farmer: A Ballad by Robert Burns
- A Woman’s Apology poem – Alfred Austin
- I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
- Female ghost in the moonlight by Raj Arumugam
- Smiling Buddha by Satish Verma
- Николай Гумилев – Никогда не сделаю я так
- Sound O’ Water by William Barnes
- Ок Мельникова – Карниз
- Main to piya say naina lada aayi ray poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Юлия Друнина – Баллада о десанте
- Years of the Modern. by Walt Whitman
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
- My Friends by W. S. Merwin
- Language by W. S. Merwin
- It Is March by W. S. Merwin
- William Stanley Merwin – William Stanley Merwin
- Green Fields by W. S. Merwin
- For The Anniversary Of My Death by W. S. Merwin
- For A Coming Extinction by W. S. Merwin
- When I Met My Muse by William Stafford
- Waking at 3 a.m. by William Stafford
- Traveling Through The Dark by William Stafford
- Thinking For Berky by William Stafford
- The Light By The Barn by William Stafford
- Security by William Stafford
- Returned To Say by William Stafford
- Remembering Mountain Men by William Stafford
- Objector by William Stafford
- Notice What This Poem Is Not Doing by William Stafford
- Lit Instructor by William Stafford
- Just Thinking by William Stafford
- William Stafford – William Stafford
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
